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TO THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COUNCILLORS OF
THE BOROUGH OF LEY TON.
Mb. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present herewith my Annual Report
on the health, sanitary circumstances and vital statistics of the
Borough of Leyton during the year 1951.
Vital Statistics.
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population of Leyton
in 1951 was 104,700 persons, a reduction of 1,900 persons compared
with the officially estimated population of the previous year. The
results of the official census of 1951 are not yet available.
The birth rate, 12.52 births per thousand of the population,
continues its uninterrupted decline from the highest post-war rate
of 22.35 registered in 1947.
Deaths of Leyton residents during the year numbered 1,362,
giving a death rate of 13.00 per thousand population.
Twenty-seven infants died under one year of age, the infantile
mortality rate being 20.59. Last year the infantile mortality rate
was the lowest ever recorded (20.04).
During the year under review three Leyton mothers died from
causes connected with pregnancy and childbirth.
On page 9 is a table showing the comparative birth and
death rates for the year in England and Wales, the Great Towns,
London and Leyton; and on page 18 is a summary of the annual
vital statistics of Leyton over a period of fifty years.
Infectious Diseases.
As recently as the year 1930 there were as many as 138 cases
of smallpox in Leyton; but for the last 18 years the Borough has
been quite free from smallpox.
Enteric fever is now so firmly under control that no death
has been caused by it for eight years. An even more remarkable
achievement is that during 1951 no infant in Leyton died from
diarrhoea and enteritis.