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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Leyton 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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TABLE 1.
Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1925 and Previous Years.
| Year. | Population estimated to Middle of each Year. | Births. | Total Deaths Registered in the District. | Transferable Deaths. | Nett Deaths belonging to the District. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncorrected Number. | Nett. | of Nonresidents registered in the District. | of Residents not registered in the District. | Under 1 Year of Age. | At all Ages. | |||||||
| Number. | Rate. | Number. | Rate per 1000 Nett Births. | Number. | Rate. | |||||||
| Number. | Rate. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1921 | 128,432 | 2489 | 2679 | 20.86 | 2443 | 19.2 | 1368 | 215 | 182 | 67.94 | 1290 | 10.04 |
| 1922 | 131600 | 2164 | 2416 | 18.36 | 2663 | 20.2 | 1461 | 218 | 155 | 64.16 | 1420 | 10.79 |
| 1923 | 132800 | 2069 | 2328 | 17.53 | 2433 | 18.3 | 1395 | 190 | 106 | 45.53 | 1228 | 9.25 |
| 1924 | 133500 | 1714 | 2101 | 15.74 | 2727 | 20.4 | 1590 | 188 | 110 | 52.36 | 1325 | 9.92 |
| 1925 | 132700 | 1663 | 2091 | 15.76 | 2777 | 20.9 | 1639 | 211 | 114 | 54.51 | 1349 | 10.16 |
Rates in columns 5, 7 and 13 calculated per 1000 of estimated gross population.
Area of District in acres Total population at all ages 132700
(land and inland 2594 Number of inhabited houses 23960
water) Average number of persons per house 5.57
I. Institutions within the District receiving Sick and Infirm Persons from outside the District.—Whipps Cross Hospital, Central Homes.
II. Institutions outside the District receiving Sick and Infirm Persons from the District.—Walthamstow Hospital, Queen Mary's Hospital,
Stratford, various London General and Children's Hospitals.
III. Other Institutions, the deaths in which have been distributed among the several Localities in the District.—Hospitals.—London; Royal
Free; Charing Cross; St. Bartholomew's; Guy's; Chest, Bethnal Green; Children's, Great Ormond Street; French; Prince of Wales;
Women's; Queen's, Hackney Road; University College; Royal Northern; German; St. Thomas's; National, Holborn; St. Marks;
North Eastern, Tottenham; London Jewish, Stepney; Victoria Cottage, Romford; St. Mary's, Plaistow; Infants', Westminster; St.
Joseph's, Hackney. Sanatoria.—Brompton Hospital, Frimley; Ipswich; Harold Court, Upminster. Asylums and Mental
Hospitals.—Broadmore Asylum, Crowthorne; Severalls Mental Hospital, Colchester; Brentwood Mental Hospital, South Weald;
Banstead Mental Hospital, Banstead.