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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STOKE NEWINGTON.
ANNUAL (ABRIDGED) REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OP HEALTH.
for the year 1947.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, N.16.
30th June, 1948.
To the Mayor, Aldermen & Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Stoke Newington.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
An abridged report concerning the health of the borough during
the year 1947 is herewith submitted.
This is my ninth and final report and I am glad to state that
the health of the borough has in general been good and that two new
statistical records have been achieved.
The first record is the low rate of 22.14 for the infantile
mortality rate of the borough compared with 36.53 in 1946 and with
37 for London as a whole. Of the 1084 births registered 24 children
died in the first year of life and of the 24, 10 suffered from
congenital malformations, 5 were premature and 9 died from the infections
of pneumonia, whooping cough, diarrhoea and tuberculosis.
This is the lowest rate yet recorded in any of the Metropolitan
Boroughs and reflects great credit on parents, the Council's
Maternity and Child Welfare services, general practitioners,
hospitals and the Ministry of Pood's scheme for priority milk
and vitamins alike.
The second record to be achieved is that for the first time
there was no confirmed case of diphtheria in the borough during
the year and consequently for the ninth successive year there were
no deaths from this disease. At the end of the year 72.8% of the