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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR
THE YEAR 1934.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Stoke Newington.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the Annual Report for the year
1934 on the state of the public health of the Borough of Stoke
Newington.
The report is arranged in accordance with the requirements
of the Ministry of Health, and the subjects dealt with concern
the vital statistics, housing and sanitary conditions of the area ;
inspection and supervision of food ; maternity and child welfare ;
the activities of the Tuberculosis Dispensary ; and the general
work performed by the Staff of the Public Health Department.
The estimate of population for 1934 was 50,620 as compared
with the Registrar-General's mid-year 1933 estimate of population
(51,120).
The chief statistics relating to the year under review are as
follows :—
The birth rate (13.7) was higher than that for 1933 (12.6)
which was the lowest birth rate ever recorded in the borough.
The adjusted death rate was 11 T as compared with 11.9 for
London generally, and 11.8 for the year 1933.
The infantile mortality rate was 61 as compared with 46
in 1933.
The total number of notifiable diseases recorded for the year
was 331 as compared with 407 for the year 1933. There was a
decrease in the number of cases of scarlet fever, and an increase in
the number of cases of diphtheria and tuberculosis.