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Hampstead 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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HAMP 44.
Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead.
Abridged Report on the Health
of the Borough.
1943.
H. LESLIE OLDERSHAW,
M.D. State Medicine (Lond.), B.S., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Presented by G. CLARK TROTTER, M.D., D.P.H., F.R.S.E.,
Temporary Medical Officer of Health.
(In the absence of Dr. Oldershaw who joined H.M. Forces on
18th December, 1943.)
Area of Borough 2,265 acres.
Rateable value £1,564,468
Sum produced by ld. rate £5,600
Births 1,153
Deaths 991
Maternal deaths 2 Maternal death rate 17
Infant deaths 50 Infant mortality rate 43