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5
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health for the Urban District of Barking
Town, in the County of Essex, for the Year ended 31st
December, 1926.
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 on the Public Health Services
of the District for the year ended 31st December, 1926, in accordance
with the requirements of the Ministry of Health.
A report on the work of the School Medical Service has already
been issued.
The estimated population in June, 1920, was 3S.920, giving an
increase of 470 over 38,450 in 1925, while the excess of births over
deaths was 452.
The birth rate for the year was 21.01 while the death rate was
9.4.
In connection with the general death rate of the district it is
noteworthy that a decline since 1924 has taken place in the mortality
of those diseases which more particularly depend upon the efficiency
of the Health services, the death rate, e.g., from Tuberculosis, and
the Infantile and Zymotic Mortalities being 1.2, 85.1 and 0.95
respectively in 1924 compared with the figures for 1926 which were