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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR
THE YEAR 1936.
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
1936 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 1936 was 50,350, as compared
with the Registrar.General's mid.year 1935 estimate (50,210).
The chief statistics relating to the year under review are as
follows:—
The birth rate (13.8) was slightly lower than that for 1935
(13.9).
The adjusted death rate was 10.9 as compared with 12.5 for
London generally, and 10.6 for the year 1935.
The infantile mortality rate was 45 as compared with 51 in
1935, and is the lowest infantile mortality rate that has yet been
recorded in the borough.
The total number of notifiable diseases attributed to the Borough
was 284 as compared with 228 for the year 1935. There was an
increase in the number of cases of scarlet fever, a decrease in the
number of cases of pneumonia, while the number of cases of tuberculosis
and diphtheria remained much the same as in the previous
year.
These figures indicate generally that the standard of health
of the borough has continued to be satisfactory during the year.
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