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Leyton Urban District Council.
ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT
FOR 1918,
by
J. FRANCIS TAYLOR, M.R.C.S., D.P.H.
Medical Officer of Health.
ASSESSABLE AND RATEABLE VALUE.
The present assessable value for general district purposes is
£503,321 19s. 6d., and a rate of 1d. in the £ produces £1,925.
For poor rate purposes the rateable value is £537,344 0s 0d.,
and 1d. rate produces £72,097 0s. 0d.
AREA, INHABITED HOUSES, POPULATION.
The district has a total area of 2,591 acres; at the end of June
it contained 23,740 houses. No new houses were erected in the
district during the year.
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.
The Registrar-General gives two estimates of population.
The two estimates of the population—one for the calculation
of the death-rates, based on the returns furnished under the
National Registration Act, 1915, and under the scheme for the
rationing of sugar, is an estimate of the civilian population; the
other, for the calculation of the birth-rate, is an estimate of the
total population. The figures so arrived at for the year 1917
are used in calculating the rates in this report, because those for
1918. although they might now be used would necessarily
differ more from the facts of the present time than the earlier
estimates. The main change which occurred between mid-1917
and mid-1918, was further depletion of the male population by
enlistment, and as this has now been more than made good by
demobilisation it follows that the 1917 estimates, though they
understate the present population, do so to a less extent than
would those of 1918.
Population for death rates 112,452
Population for birth-rate 125,352
BIRTHS.
The number of births continue to decline. 1,687 births
were registered—836 males and 851 females. To these must
be added 58 male and 46 female births (transferable) received from
the Registrar-General, which yields a birth-rate of 14.3 per 1,000
of the population.