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Leyton Urban District Council.
ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT
FOR 1913,
BY
J. FRANCIS TAYLOR, M.R.C.S.Eng., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.
The general characteristics of the District and of its inhabitants
having been outlined in previous reports, it is unnecessary
to repeat them here.
ASSESSABLE AND RATEABLE VALUE.
The present assessable value for general district purposes is
£512,614 17s., and a rate of 1d. in the produces £1,930.
For poor rate purposes the rateable value is £542,891, and
1d. rate produces £.2,083.
AREA, INHABITED HOUSES, POPULATION.
The district has a total area of 2,594 acres; at the end of May
it contained 23,523 houses, of which number 545 were uninhabited.
The census population divided among the inhabited houses
gave an average of 5.63 persons per house.
On this basis our population at the middle of the year totals
129,366 persons.
The Registrar.General.s estimate is 130,922.
As pointed out in last year.s report the Registrar.General
assumes that we continue to increase in the same ratio as we did
during the last intercensal period, but as building operations are
constantly diminishing owing to nearly all the available land being
built upon, his figures must necessarily be too high.
The number of new houses erected in the district during the
year 1913 was only 97.