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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1916.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Stoke Newington.
Gentlemen,—
The vital statistics of the Borough for the year 1916 are very
satisfactory. The general death-rate of 12.6 is a low one, and there
were only four other Metropolitan Boroughs with lower rates. The
death-rate from the chief infectious diseases was one of the lowest
yet recorded for the Borough. The rate of infantile mortality (the
number of deaths under one year of age to every thousand births)
was only 59.8, as compared with 99.8 for the preceding year. It
is the lowest on record and compares with a rate for London as a
whole of 89. Speaking generally the favourable rates for 1916 are
due to a much reduced mortality as compared with the previous
year from diseases of the lungs, measles and whooping-cough, and
influenza.
The total notifications of infectious diseases (including those
from tuberculosis) were below those for the preceding year.
The Report has been made shorter than usual; this is in accordance
with a suggestion from the Local Government Board that
Medical Officers of Health should confine their report to a record
of what has taken place during the year, and thus effect an economy
in labour and printing.