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Hammersmith 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA.
General Statistics, 1932.
Area 2,282.5 acres
Population (1982) (estimated) 138,700
Population Census (1901) 112,239
„ „ (1911) 121,521
„ „ (1921) 180,295
„ „ (1981) 185,521
Natural increase, i.e., excess of
births over deaths 226
Density of population 58.6 persons
per acre
Marriages registered 1,235
Number of inhabited houses
1981 17,402
Number of families or separate
occupiers (1921) 33,263
Rateable value (1982) £1,144,018
Sum represented by a penny rate,
1982 £4,650
| Births (legitimate) | 1,807 | |
| ,, (illegitimate) | 183 | birth rate 14.5 |
| Stillbirths | 71 | death rate 12.8 |
| Deaths (corrected) | 1,714 |
Number of women dying in, or in from sepsis 3.
consequence of childbirth from other causes 4.
Deaths of infants under one year
of age per 1,000 births 66
Legitimate, 60. Illegitimate, 150.
Deaths from measles (all ages) 29
Deaths from whooping cough (all ages) 6
Deaths from diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 26