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REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1900.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Borough of
Stoke Newington.
Gentlemen,
As the new Borough of Stoke Newington was not constituted
until November, 1900, and the vital statistics of an Annual Report
are always compiled for the year ending December 31st, the new
Borough will be dealt with from the point of view of vital statistics
from January 1st, 1901. This Report, therefore, deals with the
former Parish of Stoke Newington, and Dr. Howard Jackman, who
acted as Medical Officer of Health for that District, has undertaken
to prepare the Annual Report for 1900 for the former District of
South Hornsey.
The present Report furnishes abundant evidence of the
healthiness of the District; the general death-rate (corrected) was
only 13.3, as against 13.7 in the preceding year, and 19.5 for London
generally, while the rate of infantile mortality (the number of deaths
of children under one year of age to every 1000 births registered)
was only 112, as against 160 for London generally. With regard to
the other 42 Metropolitan Sanitary areas, the corrected death-rate of
the former Parish of Stoke Newington was, with the exception of
that of Hampstead (13.0), the lowest of all.