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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
Stepney 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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TABLE I.—Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1912 and Previous Years.
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
| Year. 1 | Population estimated to Middle of each Year. 2 | Births. | Total Deaths Registered in the District. | Transferable Deaths. | Nett Deaths belonging to the District. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncorrected Number. 3 | Nett. | of Nonresidents registered in the District. 8 | of Residents not registered in the District. 9 | Under 1 Year of Age. | At all Ages. | |||||||
| Number. 10 | Rate per 1,000 Nett Births. 11 | Number. 12 | Rate. * 13 | |||||||||
| Number. 4 | Rate.* 6 | Number. 6 | Rate.* 7 | |||||||||
| 1907 | 286850 | 10475 | 10226 | 35-6 | 5121 | 17.8 | 990 | 765 | 1217 | 119 | 4896 | 17.0 |
| 1908 | 285020 | 10404 | 10124 | 35-5 | 5456 | 19.1 | 1062 | 782 | 1320 | 130 | 5176 | 18.1 |
| 1909 | 283190 | 9819 | 9502 | 33-4 | 5225 | 18.4 | 1142 | 676 | 1130 | 118 | 4759 | 16.8 |
| 1910 | 281360 | 9512 | 9164 | 325 | 4792 | 17.0 | 1128 | 635 | 1041 | 113 | 4299 | 15.2 |
| 1911 | 279560 | 8798 | 8464 | 30-2 | 5179 | 18.5 | 1196 | 871 | 1261 | 148 | 4854 | 17.3 |
| 1912 | 277315 | 8990 | 8579 | 30-9 | 4566 | 16.4 | 1044 | 722 | 946 | 110 | 4244 | 15-3 |
* Rates in Columns 5, 7, and 13 calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
Note.—The deaths to be included in Column 6 of this table are the whole of those registered during the year as having actually occurred within the district or division. The deaths
included in Column 12 are the number in Column 6, corrected by the subtraction of the number in Column 8 and the addition of the number in Column 9.
By the term " Non-residents " is meant persons brought into the district on account of sickness or infirmity, and dying in public institutions there; and the term "Residents"
includes persons who have been taken out of the district on account of sickness or infirmity, and have died in public instiutions elsewhere.
The " Public institutions'* to be taken into account for the purposes of these Tables are those into which persons are habitually received on account of sickness or infirmity, such as
hospitals, workhouses, and lunatic asylums.
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