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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL
OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR 1927.
STATISTICS.— A summary of the principal facts of the statistics
for 1927 is given below : —
Area (acres) 587
Estimated civilian population at
the middle of 1927 75,500
Finsbury residents in outlying
institutions at the end of June,
1927 993
Number of inhabited houses
(structurally separate dwellings),
Census, 1921 10,889
Number of families or separate
occupiers (Census, 1921) 20,005
Rateable value £1,242,657
Sum represented by a penny rate £5,042
Birth rate, Finsbury 19.2 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Birth rate, London 16.1 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Birth rate, England and Wales 16.7 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Death rate, Finsbury 13.4 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Death rate, London 11.9 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Death rate, England and Wales 12.3 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Infant mortality, Finsbury 50.3 per 1,000 births.
Infant mortality, London 59.0 per 1,000 births.
Infant mortality, England & Wales 69.0 per 1,000 births.
Phthisis death rate, Finsbury 1.34 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Finsbury death rate from all forms
of tuberculosis 1.58 per 1,000 inhabitants.
In comparison with the results for 1926, the following matters
are of interest :—
The number of births and the birth rate are less in 1927.
The general death rate is higher in 1927.
The death rates for consumption of the lungs and for all
forms of tuberculosis are both mure in 1927.
The infant mortality is very much lower in 1927.