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Public Health Department,
Poplar Town Hall,
Bow Road, E.3.
1st September, 1949.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlomen,
I have the honour to submit the Annual Report for the year
1948 on behalf of Dr. G.O.Mitchell who continued to act as Medical
Officer of Health for the Borough subsequent to his appointment as
Divisional Medical Officer in November 1948 up to the end of the
year.
GENERAL STANDARD OF HEALTH.
The general standard of. health of the borough, as evidenced
by the vital statistics, may be considered satisfactory.
Measles and Whooping Cough accounted for 76 per cent of the notifiable
diseases. No deaths occurred from these diseases or from Diphtheria
or Scarlet Fever during the year.
Six definite cases of Infantile Paralysis were notified, one of which
was fatal.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The birth rate for the borough is 21.0 per 1,000 estimated
population, as compared with 26.7 for the year 1947.
The death rate for the year is 11.3 per 1,000 estimated
population, as compared with 13.5 for the previous year.
The infantile mortality rate is 33 per 1,000 live births, the
corresponding figure for the country as a whole being 34.
The maternal mortality rate per 1,000 total births is 0.62,
the corresponding figure for England and Wales being 1.02.
The death rate from all forms of Tuberculosis is 0.83, which
compares favourably with the pre-war (1938) figure of 0.81.