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REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1902.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the Borough of
Stoke Newington.
Gentlemen,
The present report maintains the reputation of the Borough
for healthiness. The recorded death-rate was, as in the preceding
year, only 13.1, as against 17.2 for London generally, while the rate
of infantile mortality (i.e., the number of deaths of children under one
year of age to every 1,000 births registered) was only 114, as against
139 for London as a whole.
With regard to the other 28 Metropolitan Boroughs there was
only one with a lower general death rate, namely, Hampstead; the
Zymotic death-rate or the death-rate from the seven Principal
Communicable Diseases was also the lowest, with the sole exception
of that of Hampstead, and the rate of infantile mortality was the
third lowest of all the Metropolitan Boroughs.
The sickness and mortality rates from the several Infectious
Diseases were, without exception, well below those of London
generally.
The Small-pox epidemic ended, so far as the Borough of Stoke
Newington was concerned, in July last, or just a year from its first
appearance, and happily the Metropolis is now practically free from
the disease. The outbreak formed the subject of a Special Report
presented to the Council early in November.