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Stoke Newington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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During the year two of the monthly death-rates were the lowest
ever recorded in the Borough. For four weeks in July the death-rate
was only 7.8, and for a similar period in September it only reached
6.4. We have to go back for the next lowest monthly rate to July,
1901, when the rate was 8.1.
District Mortality.—The deaths among residents of the
Northern Division of the Borough numbered 179 and furnished a
recorded death-rate of 9.6 per 1,000 per annum.
The deaths among the residents of the Southern Division of
the Borough numbered 420, and furnished a recorded death-rate ot
12.1 per 1,000 per annum.