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METROPOLIATAN BOROUGH OF STOKE NEWINGTON.
ANNUAL (INTERIM) REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
For the Year 1943.
AREA. 863 acres.
LIVE BIRTHS. TOTAL. M. F.
Legitimate. 671 357 314 ) Birth rate per 1,000 estimated
Illegitimate. 45 22 ) 23 resident population - 20.1 mid
716 379 337 1943.
STILL BIRTHS. TOTAL. M. F.
Legitimate. 18 12 6 ) Rate per 1,000 total (live and
Illegitimate. - - - ) still) births, 24.5.
18 12 6
BIRTH NOTIFICATIONS.
Of the 602 Stoke Newington births, 431 occurred in institutions. There
were 585 live and 17 still births.
DEATHS. 523 262 261 ) Death rate per 1,000
) estimated average population
) 14.7.
DEATHS FROM PUERPERAL CAUSES.
(Headings 29 and 30 of the Registrar General's short list).
Rate per 1,000
total (live and
Deaths. still) births.
No. 29 Puerperal sepsis. 1 1.4,
No. 30 Other puerperal causes, 1 1. 4.
2 2.8
DEATH RATE OF INFANTS UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE.
All infants per 1,000 live births. 41.9,
(The average for London is 58.0.)
Legitimate infants per 1,000
legitimate live births. 40.2
Illegitimate infants per 1,000
illegitimate live births. 66.6
DEATHS FROM
CANCER (all ages) 87
MEASLES (all ages) -
WHOOPING COUGH (all ages) 1
DIARRHOEA (under 2 years of age) 2
CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS.
The causes of deaths (523) were as folllows:-
Influenza 14, Tuberculosis of Respiratory System 26, Other Tuberculous
Diseases 2, Syphilis 6, Cancer 87, Diabetes 7, Heart Disease 130, Other
circulatory Diseases 19, Bronchitis 45, Pneumonia 39, Other respiratory
Diseases 5, Peptic Ulcer 8, Diarrhoea (under 2 years) 2, Other Digestive
Diseases 8, Acute and Chronic Nephritis 13, Premature birth, Congenital
Malformation, etc., 18, Suicide 3, Other violent causes 18, Other defined
Diseases 40.
It is noteworthy that 57 per cent of all deaths occurred in persons
over 65 years of age.