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City of London 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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STATISTICAL INFORMATION
Area.—678 acres (including the Temple and foreshore).
Population.— Census 1951, 5,268. Estimated mid-year 1959, 4,900.
Annual Rateable Value.— As at 1st April, 1959, £12,885,565.
Annual Sum received from Penny General Rate.—£55,000.
Live Births
Number 32
Rate per 1,000 population 5.88
Illegitimate Live Births per cent of total live births 9.37
Stillbirths
Number 0
Rate per 1,000 total live and still births 0
Total Live and Still Births 32
Infant Deaths (deaths under 1 year) 0
Infant Mortality Rates
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 0
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births 0
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illigitimate live births 0
Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000 total live births) 0
Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000 total live births) 0
Perinatal Mortality Rate (stillbirths and deaths under 1 week combined per 1,000 total
live and still births) 0
Maternal Mortality (including abortion)
Number of deaths 0
Rate per 1,000 total live and still births 0
Deaths, all ages 45
Death rate per 1,000 resident population 9.37
INFECTIOUS DISEASE Total cases
notified
Notifications received:—
Dysentery, Sonne 1
Measles 21
Food Poisoning 4
Scarlet Fever 1
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary 4, Non-Pulmonary 1) 5
Influenzal Broncho Pneumonia 1
Erysipelas 1
ANALYTICAL EXAMINATIONS
(Other than Food and Drugs Act)
Apricots, Dried 4 Sauce 1
Beef, Corned 1 Sausage, portion of 1
Butter 1 Sharks Fin Soup 1
Egg, Scotch 1 Sultanas 3
Fertilisers— Sweets, Fruitella 1
Fish Manure 1 Tea 660
Hop Manure 1 Tinned Foods-
Fish Cakes 1 Crab 1
Lime Juice Cordial (Diabetic) 1 Fish Roes 1
Oranges 3 Melons 1
Orange Drink 1 Peaches 3
Pate de Canard d'Amiens aux Truffles Shrimps 4
de Pistache 1 Stewed Steak 1
Raisins 1 Tomato Puree 1
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS
The following specimens were examined during the year:—
Bananas 2 stems Meat, tinned 4
Beef, cooked 3 Poultry 2
Coconut, desiccated 12 Prawns, frozen 53
Egg products 68 Prawns, tinned 1
Faeces 6 Sausage Rolls 1
Fruit Salad 1 Shrimps, dried 1
Ham, tinned 3 Shrimps, tinned 4
Meat Pie 3 Steakettes, frozen 1
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