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Wood Green 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]

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Public Health Department,
Town Hall.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Urban District Council of Wood Green.
Mr. Chairman, Mrs. Bolster and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit ray Annual Report for the year 1925:—
NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Area (acres) 1,625
Population—Census 1921 50,707
Estimated 1925 51,960
(Figure supplied by Registrar-General)
Number of inhabited houses (1921) 10,227
Do. do. (1925) (estimated) 10,783
Number of families or separate occupiers (1921) 12,890
Do. do (1925)
(estimated) 13,572
Rateable value (1921) £298,775
Do. (1925) £319,337
Sum represented by a penny rate (1921) £1,176
Do do (1925) £1,330
VITAL STATISTICS.
Births—740. Total. M. F.
Legitimate 723 362 361) Birth Rate, 14.24
Illegitimate 17 12 5
Deaths 507 253 254 Death Rate, 9.75.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth:—
From sepsis, 1; from other causes, 1 Total, 2.
Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births:—
Legitimate, 45.6; Illegitimate, 117.6. Total, 47.29.
(Per 1,000 legitimate (Per 1,000 illegitimate
births.) births.)