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Barking 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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The Health of Barking
but under the present legislation must be accepted. Our aim is to secure the
provision of sanitary accommodation and washing facilities immediately available
to all food retailing premises.
CHEMICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF FOOD.
The bacteriological examination of all milk and water supplies and the chemical
examination of water supplies is carried out for this Authority by the Counties
Public Health Laboratories, 66, Victoria Street, London, S.W.I, whilst the
examination of samples of milk for the presence of tubercle is carried out by Dr.
A. L. Sheather, of Chorleywood, Herts.
The Borough Analyst is Dr. J. H. Hamence, Peak House, Eastcheap,
London, E.C.
GENERAL STATISTICS—1948.
| Area (in acres) | 4,174 (including 300 acres of Tidal Water H.W.M.) | |||||
| Population (1931 Census) | 51,277 | |||||
| Population (June, 1948) (Registrar-General's Estimate) | 78,890 | |||||
| Number of Inhabitated Houses, March, 1948, according to Rate Books:— | ||||||
| Houses | 19,778 | |||||
| Shops | 1,370 | |||||
| Total | 21,148 | |||||
| Rateable Value—General | £570,125 | |||||
| Sum represented by Id. rate, 1948/49 | £2,000 | |||||
| General Rate, 1948/49 | 21/4d. | |||||
| Education Rates, 1948/49 | 6/6¾d.in the £ | |||||
| EXTRACT FROM VITAL STATISTICS—1948. | ||||||
| BIRTHS. | ||||||
| Live Births :— | ||||||
| Legitimate | 1,409 | 692 | ||||
| Illegitimate | 52 | 27 | 25 | |||
| Totals | 1,461 | 744 | ||||
| Still-Births :— | ||||||
| Legitimate | 27 | 14 | 13 | |||
| Illegitimate | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Totals | 29 | 15 | 14 | |||
| Live and Still-Births | 1,490 | 759 | 731 | |||
| Live Birth Rate per 1,000 of Estimated Population 18.5. | ||||||
| Still-Birth Rate per 1,000 (Live and Still) Births 19.46. | ||||||
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