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The Stepney Council agreed to borrow P.11,400 for acquisition of the Arbour Square
site for the proposed Municipal Offices.
Arrangements were entered into by the Stepney Council with the London Hospital
for the dental treatment of necessitous nursing and expectant mothers attending
voluntary and municipal child welfare centres.
Decisions taken by the Council included replacing the horse-drawn disinfecting
van by a motor van, and the take-over of the three dispensaries administered by the
joint Committee of the Stepney Dispensaries for the Prevention of Consumption.
At a Conference convened by the London County Council it was stated that the
notification of measles by the medical profession was necessary, and that registration
should be introduced to strengthen the powers of Local Authorities to deal with
verminous bedding and clothing. The Conference also wished to make widely known the
composition of the preparation recently introduced for shampooing the hair of children,
namely - 1 lb. of soft soap, 10 ozs. paraffin and 6 drams of turpentine.
A conference of Local Authorities in Greater London resolved that in the interest
of public health and cleanliness/Local Authorities should be empowered to carry out
the washing and drying of clothes and other articles, and to collect and deliver
such articles at reasonable charges for their services.
LIVE BIRTHS
There were 3,225 live births registered in the borough during the year. After
correction for place of residence (inward transfers 168 outward transfers 1,159),
the number allocated to the borough was 2,234 comprising 1,163 boys and 1,071 girls,
a decrease of 237 from 1970, giving a crude birth rate of 13.57 per 1,000 population
compared with 13.55 last year. When adjusted by the Registrar-General's area comparability
factor for the borough, which makes allowances for differences in the age and
sex distribution of the population throughout the country, the rate is 12.48 compared
with 16.0 (estimated) for England and Wales, a ratio of 0.78 to the national rate.
ILLEGITIMATE LIVE BIRTHS
The number of illegitimate live births during the year was 306 equivalent to
13.69% of the total live births, compared with 13.47% last year. The comparablefigure
for England and Wales was 8%.
STILLBIRTHS
This year stillbirths numbered 31 equivalent to a rate of 13.68 per 1,000 total
births compared with 12 78 in 1970. The rate for England and Wales was 12.0.
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