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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
Romford 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford RDC]
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1,000 of the population. The number of births registered
during the year was 318 (158 males, 160 females), the
birth-rate, therefore, being 28.9 per 1,000.
The following table shows the birth-rate and death-rate for the last five years.
| Romford. | Birth-rate. | Death-rate. |
|---|---|---|
| 1896 | 35.8 | 12.3 |
| 1897 | 32.9 | 12.3 |
| 1898 | 28.5 | 15.2 |
| 1899 | 30.0 | 13.05 |
| 1900 | 28.9 | 13.1 |
Zymotic diseases caused 9 deaths. Of this number 4
were caused by measles, and 4 by whooping cough, only
1 death resulting from disease (diphtheria, &c.) associated
with bad sanitary conditions, so that, although the actual
death-rate from infectious diseases was 0.8 per 1,000, the
death-rate from disease of the latter type was only 00 9
per 1000.
The mortality from preventable diseases for the last
five years has been respectively, 1.7, 0'9, 08, 0'2, 08.
The town had no great outbreak of infectious disease
duriug the year, with the exception of Measles and
Whooping Cough; these prevailed rather extensively,