London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Leyton 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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1905
105000
3209
30.5
303
94.4
2054
19.6
—
877
—
1177
11.2
1906
108000
3344
30.9
382
114.5
2355
21.8
—
1028
—
1327
12.3
1907
120000
3190
266
276
86.5
2022
16.8
899
753
16
1269
10.6
1908
121200
3071
25.3
242
78.8
2305
19.0
1328
1120
6
1185
9.8
Averages
for years
1899.1908
105320
3103
29.49
353.9
114.88
2066.9
19 .67
—
817.7
—
1249.2
11.94
1909
121200
2979
24.6
244
81.9
2352
19.4
1361
1144
16
1208
9.96
* Rates in Columns 4, 8, and 13 calculated per 1000 of estimated population.
Area of District in acres
(exclusive of area
covered by water)
2594
Total population at all ages
Number of inhabited houses
Average number of persons per house
98912
17272
5.7
At Census
of 1901.
I. Institutions within the District receiving Sick and Infirm persons from outside the District.—West Ham Infirmary, West Ham
Workhouse.
II. Institutions outside the District receiving Sick and Infirm Persons from the District.—Walthamstow Hospital, West Ham Hospital,
London Fever Hospital, various London General and Children's Hospitals, Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals, &c.
III. Other Institutions, the Deaths in which have been distributed among the several Localities in the District.—King's College Hospital;
Friedenheim Hospital; St Mary's Hospital; St. Anne's Home for Illegitimate Children, Sutton; Great Northern Central
Hospital ; Walthamstow Hospital; West Ham Hospital.
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