Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]
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Death rate of infants under one year of age—
All infants per thousand live births | 57.4 | |
Legitimate infants per thousand legitimate live births | 54.7 | |
Illegitimate infants per thousand illegitimate live births | 148.1 | |
Deaths from Measles (all ages) | 0 | |
,, ,, Whooping Cough (all ages) | 0 | |
,, ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 4 |
Note : The population figure used in computing the above rates
is that estimated by the Registrar General.
The acreage, population, and number of persons per acre as enumerated at the Census of 1931 are set out in the table below.
Acreage | Persons | Persons | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Males | Females | per acre | ||
Hornchurch— | ||||
Harold Wood Ward | 1,156 | 1,850 | 1,920 | 3.3 |
North West Ward | 1,191 | 6,210 | 6,444 | 10.6 |
South Ward | 2,877 | 1,939 | 1,631 | 1.2 |
Village Ward | 1,559 | 4,068 | 4,355 | 5.4 |
Cranham | 1,879 | 624 | 616 | 0.66 |
Rainham | 3,247 | 2,005 | 1,892 | 1.20 |
Upminster | 3,375 | 2,622 | 3,110 | 1.70 |
Wennington | 1,299 | 189 | 170 | 0.28 |
*Great Warley | 2,889 | 1,226 | 1,450 | 0.93 |
*Rather more than half of the former parish of Great Warley,
consisting mainly of agricultural land, was added to the Urban District
of Hornchurch by the Essex Review Order, 1934.
Since the 1st April, 1934, the Urban District has been divided into the wards named in the table below, which also shows the number of Local Government Electors on the autumn register.
Ward | No. of Local Government Electors, October, 1935 | No. of Councillors |
---|---|---|
Cranham | 1,212 | 1 |
Emerson Park | 4,539 | 3 |
Harold Wood | 2,910 | |
North West | 7,630 | |
Rainham | 3,109 | 2 |
Thameside | 1,897 | 1 |
Town | 6,541 | 4 |
Upminster | 5,250 | 3 |