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Leyton Urban District Council.
ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT
FOR 1921,
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
£523,102 12s. 6d., and a rate of 1d. in the £ produces £2,100.
For poor rate purposes the rateable value is £546,038 15s.,
and a 1d. rate produces £72,218.
AREA, INHABITED HOUSES, POPULATION.
The district has a total area of 2,594 acres; at the end of
1921 it contained 23,806 houses, 56 of which, including 45 under
the Council's Housing Scheme, were erected during the year.
At the 1921 census the population numbered 128,432, which
number divided among the inhabited houses gives an average of
5.39 persons per house. At the 1911 census the number worked
out at 5.63 persons per house.
BIRTHS.
2,489 births were registered—1,296 males and 1,193 females.
To these must be added 87 male and 103 female births (transferable)
received from the Registrar-General, which yields a birthrate
of 20..86 per 1,000 of the population.
Of the above, 67 were illegitimate births, 35 being males and
32 females.
Percentage of illegitimate births, 2.50.