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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR
THE YEAR 1935.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Stoke Newington.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the Annual Report for the year
1935 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 borough;
inspection and supervision of food ; maternity and child welfare ;
the Tuberculosis Dispensary ; and the general work carried out
by the Staff of the Public Health Department.
The estimate of population for 1935 was 50,210, as compared
with the Registrar-General's mid-year 1934 estimate (50,620).
The chief statistics relating to the year under review are as
follows
The birth rate (13.9) was slightly higher than that for 1934
(13.7).
The adjusted death rate was 10.6 as compared with 11.4 for
London generally, and 11.1 for the year 1934.
The infantile mortality rate was 51 as compared with 61 in
1934.
The total number of notifiable diseases recorded for the year
was 292 as compared with 408 for the year 1934. There was a marked
reduction in the number of cases of scarlet fever and also a decrease
in the number of cases of diphtheria and tuberculosis.
There was no maternal death during the year—thus the
maternal mortality rate was nil for 1935 as compared with 1.4 per
1,000 total births for the year 1934.