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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
Acton 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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1925
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Of course, allowance must be made for the reduced birth-rate,
but the average reduction in the number of births has been less
than 30 per cent. but the reduction in the average yearly number
of deaths has been 66 per cent.
In the period 1905-1911, the deaths of children between 1 and
5 years of age formed 13 per cent. of the total, and in the last
7 years the deaths in the age periods 1-5 years only formed 4.6 per cent. of the total deaths.
The following table gives the total number of deaths in the age period 1-5 year in the two periods:—
| 1925 | 24 | 1911 | 116 |
| 1924 | 48 | 1910 | 55 |
| 1923 | 20 | 1909 | 102 |
| 1922 | 27 | 1908 | 106 |
| 1921 | 32 | 1907 | 94 |
| 1920 | 33 | 1906 | 91 |
| 1919 | 28 | 1905 | 73 |
There is another table which is of interest in this connection,
though it has been extracted from the School Annual Reports.
The table gives the heights and weights of the children entering
the schools. The periods selected have been slightly different, but
this is due to the fact that School Medical Inspection was only
instituted in 1908, and the figures prior to that date are not available.