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Leyton Urban District Council.
ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT
FOR 1915,
by
ALFRED BALL, M.D., D.P.H.,
Deputy Medical Officer of Health.
ASSESSABLE AND RATEABLE VALUE.
The present assessable value for general district purposes is
£493,029 10s., and a rate of 1d. in the £1 produces £1,950.
For poor rate purposes the rateable value is £526,898, and
1d. rate produces £2,055.
AREA, INHABITED HOUSES, POPULATION.
The district has a total area of 2,594 acres; at the end of June
it contained 23,643 houses. The number of new houses erected
in the district during the year was 41. The demand for houses
in Leyton may be gauged from the return of uninhabited houses;
these, which in 1912 numbered 921, have now dropped to 314.
At the 1911 census the population numbered 124,736, which
number divided among the inhabited houses gave an average of
5.63 persons per house.
Calculated on this basis the population for the middle of 1915
would total 131,342. But it is clear that any estimate which
does not take into account the withdrawal from the civil population
of large numbers of men of military age will be too high. I
have no information of the number of Leyton men who have
enlisted, and I therefore take the Registrar-General's figure, his
estimate of the civil population for the year 1915 being 124,497.
The birth and death rates are calculated on this estimate of
the population, but they cannot strictly be compared with the
corresponding rates of previous years as they are vitiated by the