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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
Hampstead 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Section A.
NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE
BOROUGH.
SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1917.
Population estimated to middle of 1917 75,649
Density 33.5 persons per acre
Births 1,123
*Birth- Rate 13.3
Marriages 708
Marriage-rate 9.3
Deaths 922
Death- Rate 10.8
Infantile Mortality 80.1
Notifiable Infectious Diseases Attack-Rate (excluding Measles
and Tuberculosis) 3.1
do do. do. do. (including Measles
and Tuberculosis) 36.3
Notifiable Infectious Diseases Death- Rate (excluding Measles
and Tuberculosis) .09
do. do, do. do. (Including Measles
and Tuberculosis) 1.33
Death- Rate from the Principal Epidemic Diseases .22
Death- Rate from Pulmonary Tuberculosis .91
Death- Rate from All Forms of Tuberculosis 1.12
CENSUS, 1911.
Population 85,495
Buildings used as Dwellings 11,976
Ordinary Dwelling Houses 10 062
Area of Borough 2265 acres
„ „ (excluding area covered by water) 2253 acres
* By direction of the Registrar-General this rate has been calculated upon a
population of 84,327.