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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hammersmith 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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| Area | 2,282.5 acres |
| Population (1933) (estimated) | 131,400 |
| Population Census (1901) | 112,239 |
| (1911) | 121,521 |
| (1921) | 130,295 |
| (1931) | 135,521 |
| Natural increase, i.e., excess of births over deaths | 353 |
| Density of population | 56.1 persons per acre |
| Marriages registered | 1,375 |
| Number of inhabited houses 1931 | 17,402 |
| Number of families or separate occupiers (1921) | 33,268 |
| Rateable value (1935) | £1,223,277 |
| Sum represented by a penny rate, 1935 | £4,702 |
| Births (legitimate) | 1,738 | Birth rate | 14.7 |
| (illegitimate) | 139 | ||
| Stillbirths | 72 | ( Rate per 1,000 (live and still) births | 37 |
| Deaths (corrected) | 1,524 | Death rate | 11.9 |
| Adjusted death rate | 12.3 | ||
| Deaths from puerperal causes:- | Deaths. | Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births. | |
| Puerperal sepsis | 1 | 0.5 | |
| Other puerperal causes | 1 | 0.5 | |
| Total | 2 | 1.0 | |
| Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births | 70 | ||
| Legitimate, 66. Illegitimate, 115. | |||
| Deaths from measles (all ages) | 0 | ||
| Deaths from whooping cough (all ages) | 7 | ||
| Deaths from diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 28 | ||