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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1909.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Stoke Newington.
Gentlemen,
The vital statistics of the Borough for the year 1909 are of a
highly satisfactory nature. The general death-rate of 11.0 was the
lowest recorded since the formation of the Borough, and it compares
'favourably with the rate of 14.0 for the Metropolis as a whole; while
the death-rate from the chief communicable diseases (0.63) is also
the lowest since the formation of the Borough, and amounts to only
one half of that for the Metropolis. The rate of infantile mortality
(the number of deaths under one year of age to every thousand births)
amounted to only 84.9, as against 107 for the whole of the Metropolis
of London. It is the lowest infantile mortality rate since the formation
of the Borough; but as five other Metropolitan Boroughs have a
lower rate, it serves to indicate a direction in which increased efforts in
Stoke Newington may be expected to reap good results. The appointment
of Miss Aldridge, a salaried part time health worker, has done
much to assist the seven voluntary health workers—who continue as
in past years to perform a great service to the Borough—and myself,
in our efforts to reduce this infantile mortality.
Fewer notifications of infectious disease, per thousand of the
population, were received in Stoke Newington in 1909 than in any
other Metropolitan Borough, and the rate was but little over one
half of that for the whole of Metropolitan London.