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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 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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Section 1.
Statistics and Social Conditions of the Borough.
Area (in acres) 2,265 (including 12 acres covered by water).
Registrar-General's estimate of (a) resident population, mid-1939—
90,170; (b) average population appropriate to the calculation of
death-rates—84,930.
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1939) according to Rate Books—
9,580 dwelling houses; 8,135 separate flats; 1,006 houses and
shops combined.
Rateable value (at 1st April, 1939) £1,618,340
Sum represented by a penny rate £6,313
Extent of Unemployment.
I am indebted to the Director of Statistics, Ministry of Labour,
for the following information relating to unemployment in the year
1939.
Numbers of insured persons, aged 16-64, resident in the Borough recorded as unemployed at the undermentioned dates, and these numbers expressed as percentages of the estimated total numbers of insured persons of the same ages resident in the Borough.
| Date. | Numbers. | Percentages. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Males. | Females. | |
| 1939. | ||||
| 16th January | 1,516 | 401 | 10•4 | 3•5 |
| 13th February | 1,418 | 419 | 9•8 | 3•6 |
| 13th March | 1,296 | 399 | 8•9 | 3•5 |
| 17th April | 1,149 | 316 | 7•9 | 2•7 |
| 15th May | 1,070 | 312 | 7•4 | 2•7 |
| 12th June | 945 | 262 | 6•5 | 2•3 |
| 10th July | 1,076 | 289 | 7•4 | 2•5 |
| 14th August | 954 | 305 | 6•6 | 2•6 |
Note.—The figures are exclusive of persons insured under the Agricultural
Scheme.
Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
| Total. | M. | F. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births | Legitimate | 902 | 460 | 442 |
| Illegitimate | 78 | 43 | 35 | |
| Birth Rate per 1,000 estimated resident population mid-1939- | 10•9 | |||
| Stillbirths | 30 | |||