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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1961
[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 1961, 4,600.
Annual Rateable Value.— As at 1st April, 1961, £13,835,428.
Annual Sum received from Penny General Rate.— £57,320.
Live Births
Number 29
Rate per 1,000 population 5.80
Illegitimate Live Births per cent of total live births 23.33
Stillbirths
Number
[late per 1,000 total live and still births 33.33
Total Live and Still Births 30
Infant Deaths (deaths under 1 year) 1
Infant Mortality Rates
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 34.48
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births 45.45
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live births 0
Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000 total live births) 34.48
Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (deaths under L week per 1,000 total live births) 0
Perinatal Mortality Rate (stillbirths and deaths under 1 week combined per l,000total
live and still births) 33.33
Maternal Mortality (including abortion)
Number of deaths 0
Rate per 1,000 total live and still births 0
Deaths, all ages 56
Death rate per 1,000 resident population 10.01
INFECTIOUS DISEASE Total cases
notified
Notifications received
Acute Primary Pneumonia 1
* Diphtheria 1
Dysentery 2
Erysipelas 2
Measles 23
Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) 1
Scarlet Fever 2
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) 5
Whooping Cough 2
* This case was re-diagnosed as acute tonsillitis.
ANALYTICAL EXAMINATIONS
(Other than Food and Drugs Act)
Albumen 19
Bread 3
Buttered Bun 1
Cleaning Fluid 1
Coconut Ice 1
Cooking Fat 1
Dried Fruit 46
Fruit Pie 1
Gelatine Powder 1
Bam Roll 1
Hamburger 1
Instant Coffee 1
Lamb Trimmings 1
Lime Gums 1
Lolly (in cockle shell) 1
Margarine 1
Milk 2
Mushrooms 2
Oranges 1
Pickles & Sauces 3
Pickling Spice 2
Shelled Walnuts 2
Steak Pie . . 1
Sulphate of Ammonia 1
Tea 1,303
Tinned Foods:—
Ackees 1
Anchovies. 1
Apple Juice 2
Asparagus 1
Corned Beef 2
Grapefruit 1
Orange Juice 3
Oysters 1
Salmon 1
Shrimps 1
Tomato Juice 1
Tongue 1
Water 1
BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS
The following specimens were examined during the year:—
Cheese 1
Chicken 5
Confectionery 1
Corned Beef 1
Egg Products 283
Faeces 12
Haddock 1
Ice Cream Powder 1
Lymph Nodes 1
Port Luncheon Meat 1
Pork Pie 1
Prawns . 235
Roast Beef 1
Stewed Steak 1
Throat Swabs 3
Well Water 1
Vomit 1
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