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To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have pleasure in submitting for your information my Annual
Report for 1937, upon the sanitary circumstances and state of the
public health generally. Another year of steady progress has been
experienced.
Vital Statistics.—The general death-rate was 14.6 per
1,000 population, as compared with 12.4 per 1,000 for the whole
country, nd 14.0 per 1,000 in the Borough during the year 1936.
The infantile mortality rate was 71 per 1,000 births, a welcome
drop from that experienced in 1936, viz., 81 per 1,000 births. This
latter high rate was largely due to the epidemic of measles
experienced that year. The rate for London was 60 per 1,000 births.
The puerperal mortality rate was 1.20 per 1,000 total (live)
births and the total Maternal Mortality (including associated deaths)
2.40 per 1,000.
Excluding the associated deaths the rate of 1.20 per 1,000
compares with a rate of 3.23 per 1,000 for England and Wales.
The birth-rate was 13.8 per 1,000 of the population as compared
with 13.3 per 1,000 for London as a whole, and 13.8 per 1,000 in
the Borough in 1936.
Infectious Diseases.—The number of cases of Scarlet Fever
was 114, as compared with 135 last year.
The number of cases of Diphtheria notified was 108, as
compared with 126 in 1936. 181 persons were immunised last year
either at the Municipal Clinics, or under the scheme in operation
in the Borough since 1935 by medical practitioners.
Housing.—The 29 flats erected in the demolished Amias Place
area are now completed and occupied.
Busaco Street Area.—The re-development of this area is
proceeding, and at the time of writing a scheme for the erection
of 234 flats of reinforced concrete construction, provided with lifts,