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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
Hampstead 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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Natural and Social Conditions and Statistics
of the Borough.
Area of Borough 2265 acres (including 12 acres covered by water).
Registrar General's estimate of resident population, 1932 90,130
Gross estimated population density per acre, 1932 39
Area of parks and open spaces maintained by Government, County Council
and Borough Council = 335 acres, i.e., 14-8 per cent, of total area—as
compared with 9.3 per cent, for the whole of London (metropolitan area).
Population at Census, 1931 88,947
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1932) 14,935
Number of houses occupied by the Working Classes, Approximately
one-half
Number of families, Census 1931 23,709
Rateable Value, 6th April, 1932 £1,476,980
Sum represented by a penny rate in the £ (year
1931-1932) £5,872 12s. 9d.
| Marriages | 822 | ||||
| Marriage Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population | 18.2 | ||||
| Live Births | 981 | ||||
| {Legitimate | 490 | 400 | 890} | ||
| {Illegitimate | 40 | 51 | 91} | ||
| Live Birth Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population | 109 | ||||
| Still Births | {Legitimate | 9 | 11 | 20 | |
| {Illegitimate | 3 | 3 | 6 | 26 | |
| Still Birth Rate per 1,000 total (live and still births) births | 26 | ||||
| Deaths | 1,043 | ||||
| Death Rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population | 11.6 | ||||
| Deaths from puerperal causes :— | |||||
| Puerperal sepsis | 1 | 1 | |||
| Other puerperal causes | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total | 2 | 2 | |||