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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 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA.
General Statistics, 1944.
Area 2,282.5 acres
Population (1943) (estimated) 92,050
(1944) „ 89,190
Population Census (1901) 112,239
„ „ (1911) 121,521
„ „ (1921) 130,295
„ „ (1931) 135,521
Natural increase, i.e., excess of
births over deaths 370
Density of population (persons per acre) 39.08
Marriages registered 933
Rateable value (April, 1944) £1,221,638
Sum represented by a penny rate
(April, 1944) £4,700
Vital Statistics.
Births (legitimate) 1,583 Birth rate 20.0
,, (illegitimate) 205
Rate per 1,000
Stillbirths 63 . (live and still
births) 34
Deaths (corrected) 1,418 Death rate 15.9
Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000
births 53
,, from cancer (all ages) 200
,, ,, whooping cough (all ages) 5
,, ,, diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 17