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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 1957
[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) 2,319
Population: Census, 1931 70,008
1951 67,424
Registrar General's Estimate Mid.—1957
Home Population 65,840
Rateable Value at 31st March, 1957 £1,523,313
Product of a penny rate for year ending 31st March, 1957 £6,599
General Rate in the £ at 31st March, 1957 14s. 10d.
Number of Inhabited Dwellings at 31st March, 1957 — 18,937
VITAL STATISTICS
(Comparable figures for 1956 in brackets)
Live Births:
total males females
Legitimate 872 (850) 464 (449) 408 (401)
Illegitimate 65 (65) 37 (39) 28 (26)
Totals 937 (915) 501 (488) 436 (427)
Birth rate per 1,000 estimated population—14.2 (13.8).
Corrected birth rate per 1,000 estimated population—
13.3 (12.8).