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Leyton Urban District Council.
ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT
FOR 1923,
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
£,526,958, and a rate of 1d. in the £ produces £2,020.
For poor rate purposes the rateable value is £549,710 15s.,
and a 1d. rate produces ,£2,215.
AREA, INHABITED HOUSES, POPULATION.
The district has a total area of 2,594 acres; at the end of
1923 it contained 23,926 houses, 15 of which were erected during
the year.
Our present estimated population is 132,800, which number
divided among the 23,847 inhabited houses, gives an average of
5.57 per house. At the 1921 Census the number worked out at
5.39 persons per house.
BIRTHS.
2,069 births were registered—1,032 males and 1,037 females.
To these must be added 150 male and 109 female births (transferable)
received from the Registrar-General, which yields a birthrate
of 17.53 per 1,000 of the population.
Of the above, 56 were illegitimate births, 26 being males and
30 females.
Percentage of illegitimate births, 2.41.