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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE YEAR 1910.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Stoke Newington.
Gentlemen,
The vital statistics of the Borough for the year 1910 are of the
usual satisfactory nature. The general death-rate of 10.9 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 (0.50) is also
the lowest since the formation of the Borough, and amounts to less
than 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 the low record figure of 66.1, as against
103 for the whole of the Melropolis of London. It is by far the
lowest infantile mortality rate since the formation of the Borough,
and there was only one other Metropolitan Borough with a lower
rate. It is obvious, however, from our experience, that increased
efforts are necessary in order to permanently stem the wastage of
infant life. Miss Aldridge has in her official capacity done much to
assist the voluntary health workers 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 1910 than in any other
Metropolitan Borough, save Hampstead and the City of Westminster,
and the rate was only two-thirds of that for the whole of Metropolitan
London.
May I direct special attention to the remarks and suggestions on
pp. 49-55 concerning Consumption. I am confident that a Tuberculosis