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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STOKE NEWINGTON.
ANNUAL (INTERIM) REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
for the year 1939.
AREA,
863 acres.
The number of inhabited houses was 8,363.
The rateable value £434,212.
Sum represented by a Penny rate £1,763.
POPULATION.
Census 1931. 51,215
Registrar General's estimate for mid 1939.
(a) For calculation of birth rate 49,360.
(b) For calculation of death rate 46,930.
LIVE BIRTHS.
TOTAL. M. F.
Legitimate. 649 346 303) Birth rate per 1,000 estimat-Illegitimate.
25 14 11) ed resident population 13.7
674 360 314 mid 1939
STILL BIRTHS.
Legitimate. 15 9 6) Rate per 1,000 total (live
Illegitimate. 2 2 -) and still) births 27.4
17 11 6
BIRTHS.
Of the 691 Stoke Newington births 453 occurred in institutions
within the borough or in outlying districts. There
were 674 live and 17 still births.
DEATHS. 580 282 298 Death rate per 1,000
mated average population 10.2
Corrected death rate 9.8
DEATHS FROM PUERPERAL CAUSES.
(Headings 29 and 30 of the Registrar General's short
list.)
Rate per 1,000 total (live
Deaths. and still) births.
No. 29 Puerperal sepsis 0 0
No, 30 Other puerperal causes 1 1.4
1 1.4
DEATH RATE OF INFANTS UNDER ONE YEAR . OF AGE.
All infants per 1,000 live births 28.2
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate
live births. 40.5
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate
live births. 200.
DEATHS FROM:- CANCER (all ages) 87.
MEASLES (all ages)
WHOOPING COUGH (all ages) 2.
DIARRHOEA (under 2 years of age) 2.