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6
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health and School Medical
Officer *or the Urban District of Barking Town,
in the County of Essex, for the Year ended 31st
December, 1925.
Public Health Offices,
Barking', Essex.
To the Chairman and Members of the Urban District
Council of Barking Town.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Annual Report op the Public Health
and School Medical Services of the District, for the year ended
31st December, 1925. In accordance with the requirements of
the Ministry of Health, the Report is a survey, covering the
period of the last five years, and being my third Annual Report.
Following the death of the late Dr. Ewart, who had been
M.O.H. since November 1912, I was appointed to the vacancy in
July, 1923.
According to the Registrar-General, the estimated population
in June, 1925, was 38,450, giving an increase of 560 over
37,890 in 1924, while the excess of births over deaths was 439,
contrasted with the average quinquennial figure, which was
488.
The birth rate for 1925 was 21.4, a steady annual fall having
taken place from 1921 onwards, as follows:—26.0. 24.0. 23.1,
22.3, 21.4. The principal causes of the present birth rate
decline are referred to on page 67.