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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 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford RDC]
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Tables of mortality, &c., compiled according to the requirements of
the Local Government Board, are included with this report The birth
and death-rate for the last five years are shown in the following table.
The birth and death-rate for the last five year are shown in the following table.
| Locality. | 1902. | 1903. | 1904 | I905. | 1906. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth-Rate. | Death-Rate | Birth-Rate. | Death-Rate, | Birth-Rate. | Death-Rate. | Birth-Rate. | Death-Rate. | Birth-Rate. | Death-Rate. | |
| Dagenliam, Beacontree and Chadwell Heaths | 35.8 | 11.08 | 35.2 | 12.7 | 36.2 | 15.04 | 31.5 | 13.1 | 29.4 | 11.4 |
| Havering | 13.6 | 11.4 | 10 | Nil | 26.9 | 4.9 | 21.9 | 12.1 | 22.1 | 11.1 |
| Horncburch - | 27.6 | 12.9 | 22 9 | 8.5 | 23.7 | 11.7 | 26.5 | 10.0 | 29.5 | 10.3 |
| Upminster, Cranham, and Corbets Tey- | 22.1 | 10.0 | 21.4 | 12.04 | 23.5 | 14.3 | 14.1 | 7.3 | 19.04 | 8.5 |
| Great Warley | 29 . 5 | 8.7 | 92.9 | 14.7 | 26.3 | 7.0 | 33.4 | 12.1 | 36.01 | 8.5 |
| Rainham & Wennington | 35.2 | 17.1 | 48.3 | 18.2 | 26.5 | 17.7 | 32.4 | 11.1 | 34.1 | 13.7 |
Diseases of a zymotic character proved fatal in 12 instances. The
death-rate from this class of diseases for the entire district having been
0.6 per 1,000 of the population.