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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 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford RDC]
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The slaughter.houses, bakehouses, dairies, and cow.sheds, have
been inspected. All were in good order with the exception of one
slaughter.house which is now in process of being repaired, drained, &c.
Tables of mortality. &c., compiled according to the requirements
of the Local Government Board are inoluded with this report. The
Birth and Death Rates are shown in the following table for the last five years.
| Locality. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | 1902. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth-Rate. | Death-Rate. | Birth-Rate. | Death-Rate. | Birth-rate. | Death-Rate. | Birih-Rate. | Death-Rate. | Birth-Rate. | Death-Rate. | |
| Dagenham, Beacontree and Chadwell Heaths | 31.9 | 16.5 | 35.3 | 12.3 | 34.7 | 16.8 | 35.9 | 14.3 | 35.8 | 11.08 |
| Havering | 26.0 | 10.0 | 14.0 | 10.0 | 15.7 | 9.8 | 26.9 | 9.8 | 13.6 | 11.4 |
| Hornchurch. | 27.8 | 12.9 | 33.8 | 15.8 | 33.6 | 14.0 | 25.7 | 11.8 | 27.6 | 12.9 |
| Upminster, Cranham, and Corbets Tey. | 21.6 | 15.5 | 10.0 | 12.0 | 25.4 | 5.3 | 25.7 | 10.6 | 22.1 | 10.0 |
| Great Warley | 32.8 | 11.05 | 31.18 | 9.8 | 35.5 | 15.2 | 29.4 | 20.0 | 29.8 | 8.7 |
| Rainham & Wennington | 31.3 | 7.3 | 20.4 | 10.4 | 33.4 | 9.06 | 31.2 | 18.7 | 35.2 | 17.1 |