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Leyton Urban District Council.
ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT
FOR 1919,
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
£,506,715 3s. 6d., and a rate of 1d. in the £ produces £2,000.
For poor rate purposes the rateable value is £540,739 0s. 0d.,
and a 1d. rate produces £2,170 0s. Od.
AREA, INHABITED HOUSES, POPULATION.
The district has a total area of 2,594 acres; at the end of June
it contained 23,742 houses. Two 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.
In this report the estimates of population used in calculating
the various rates aire those given by the Registrar-General. They
are based on the returns furnished under the scheme for the
rationing of food.
Population for death-rates 123,896
Population for birth-rate 129,062
BIRTHS.
2,044 births were registered—1,062 males and 982 females.
To these must be added 67 male and 84 female births (transferable)
received from the Registrar-General, which yields a birthrate
of 17"0 per 1,000 of the population.
Of the above, 85 were illegitimate births, 36 being males and
49 females.
Percentage of illegitimate biirths, 3.9.