London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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(a) Certificate, Royal Sanitary Institute.
(b) Certificate, Royal Sanitary Institute and Sanitary Inspectors
Examination Joint Board.
(c) Certificate, Royal Sanitary Institute for Inspectors of Meat
and other Foods.
(d) Certificate, Royal Sanitary Institute for Smoke Inspectors.
SECTION A
STATISTICS
GENERAL STATISTICS
Area (acres) 2,819
Population: Census, 1931 70,008
1951 67,424
Registrar General's Estimate Mid. 1954
Home Population 67,150
Rateable Value at 31st March, 1954 £875,821
Product of a penny rate for year ending 31st March, 1954 £3,568
General Rate in the £ at 31st March, 1954 22/2
Number of Inhabited Houses at 31st March, 1954 18,071
VITAL STATISTICS
(Comparable figures for 1953 in brackets)
Live Births;
TOTAL MALES FEMALES
Legitimate 920 (842) 447 (437) 473 (405)
Illegitimate 56 (53) 27 (31) 29 (22)
Totals 976 (895) 474 (468) 502 (427)
Birth rate per 1,000 estimated population—14.53 (13.23).
Corrected birth rate per 1,000 estimated population—
13.52 (12.30).