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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
OF THE
BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH
For the Year 1918.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith.
Gentlemen,—I beg to submit a Report for the year
1918. which, in accordance with the suggestion of the Local
Government Hoard, is limited to a record of the most important
facts and figures.
I beg to take the opportunity of thanking Dr. Jackson, who
for the last two years carried out the duties of Medical Officer of
Health, during mv absence in the Army.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
.J. B. HOWELL,
Medical Officer of Health.
Population.—The following estimates of population have
been adopted by the Registrar General for the calculation of the
Death and Birth rates of the Borough.
For the Death Rate (estimated civilian population 115,833
For the Birth Rate (estimated total population) 129,787
Looking at the crowded state of the Borough it is probable
that both are under estimated.
The ration card population 133,000
Marriages.—1,149 marriages were registered during the
year against 1,121 in 1917, and the marriage rate, i.e., the
number of persons married per 1,000 inhabitants was 17.7.
Births.—Including 205 children born of Hammersmith
mothers in lying-in institutions situated in other Boroughs, 2,014
births were registered, representing a birth rate of 15.5 per
1,000, being the lowest recorded in Hammersmith and 2.2 below
that of 1917.
Illegitimacy.—The illegitimates numbered 169 or 8.4 per
cent of the total births.