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Hampstead 1926
Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health
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| Marriages | 678 | ||||||
| Marriage-Rate | 15.5 | ||||||
| M. | F. | Totals. | |||||
| Births | Legitimate | 519 | 482 | 1,001 | 1,077 | ||
| Illegitimate | 45 | 3l | 76 | ||||
| Birth-Rate | 12.3 | ||||||
| Deaths | 928 | Death-Rate | 10.6 | ||||
| Maternal Deaths - No. of women dying in, or in consequence of, child- birth | At home. | In hospital. | 3 | ||||
| (1) From Sepsis | - | 2 | |||||
| (2) Other Cause: | - | 1 | |||||
| Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age :— | |||||||
| Legitimate | 48 | Illegitimate | 17 | Total | 65 | ||
| Infantile Mortality Rate per 1,000 births :— | |||||||
| Legitimate | 48 | Illegitimate | 223 | Legitimate and Illegitimate | 60 | ||
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | 9 | ||||||
| „ Whooping Cough (all ages) | - | ||||||
| „ Diarrhœa (under 2 years of age) | 6 | ||||||
| Deaths from Tuberculosis of— | |||||||
| The Respiratory System | 51 | Death-Rate | 0.58 | ||||
| Deaths from All Forms of — | |||||||
| Tuberculosis | 56 | Death-Rate | 0.64 | ||||
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.
In accordancc with the prevailing custom, I have adopted the
Registrar-General's estimate of the population for the purposes of this
Report, and this was calculated to have been 87,530 at the middle of the
year 1926.
It will be seen that this estimate of the population, as now calculated
by the Registrar-General, is lower than that for the year 1925.
This is accounted for by the fact that the basis of estimation is modified
by the Registrar-General from time to time, and the difference between
population estimates at different points of time is, therefore, due partly
to the population movements themselves and partly to changes in the
method of estimating them.
The population is estimated upon the figures obtained at the last
Census, which was postponed from 24th April to 19th June. On th