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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
Edmonton 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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This table of vital statistics for 1919 shows the various rates for the whole country and for several of the Urban Districts of Middlesex, and is given for the purpose of comparison.
| Estimated Population middle of 1919. | Annual rates per 1,000 of the population. | Infantile Mortality per 1,000 births registered. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nett Births. | Nett Deaths. | Zymotic Deaths. | |||
| England and Wales | *35,993,000 | 18.5 | 13.8 | — | 89 |
| The 96 great towns including London and Edmonton | *17,806,093 | 19.1 | 13.8 | — | 93 |
| The 148 smaller towns | *4,713,660 | 18.4 | 12.6 | — | 90 |
| London (including City) | *4,358,309 | 18.6 | 13.4 | — | 85 |
| Acton | *61,732 | 17.1 | 10.4 | — | 65 |
| Wood Green | 53,120 | 14.31 | 10.81 | 0.27 | 68 |
| Enfield .. | 61,645 | 16.98 | 10.27 | 0.17 | 56.35 |
| Edmonton | 75,744 | 16. 33 | 9.25 | 0.55 | 67.9 |
*Civilian Population estimated at middle of 1919 by the Registrar-General.
Note.—Since 1911 the aggregate death rates from the principal epidemic diseases
have not been recorded by the Registrar-General; the Zymotic death-rate is therefore
not obtainable in all cases.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered by the Edmonton Registrar, Mr. W. H.
Miller, was 1,321 (687 boys and 634 girls), which includes 26 births that took
place in the Edmonton Workhouse and one in the Maternity Home, born of
mothers belonging to Edmonton. The figures for 1918-17-16 were 1,248. 1,376
and 1,708. Ninety-two births born of mothers who are not Edmonton residents,
are excluded from our statistics, just as foreign deaths are; of these, 58 occurred
in the Workhouse, besides 17 in the Maternity Home. The Registrar-General
has again not reported any births which took place when Edmonton mothers
were residing temporarily out of their district, but from other Medical Officers
of Health I have received notifications of eight births—four boys and four girls.
Thus the nett total of births was 1,237. Of these 1,237 births, 64 (5.2 %)
were declared illegitimate; this rate is 0.3% more than last year. The birthrate
per 1,000 inhabitants is therefore 16.33, compared with 16.09 last year.
My lowest record of births in Edmonton for a lunar month was for the four
weeks ending 19th April, and numbered only 71.
Notification of Births Acts, 1907 and 1915.—During this year 1,467
births were entered in our register; of these, 781 were males and 686 females;
114 (7.8%) of the whole number were born out of wedlock, and one more was
of doubtful legitimacy. Thirty children were declared "stillborn." Mr.
H. Weston, Superintendent of the Cemetery, informs me that there were 39
children styled "stillborn" buried during 1919; for 1918-17-16 the figures
were 34, 35 and 54. For work done in visiting infants and their mothers,