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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH AND PUBLIC ANALYST
FOR THE YEAR 1916.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have much pleasure in submitting to you my sixteenth Annual Report,
which deals with the Vital and Sanitary Statistics of the Borough of Stepney
for the year 1916.
The Report has been made shorter than usual; this is in accordance with a
suggestion from the Local Government Board, and with the resolution of the Borough
Council to effect an economy in labour and printing.
Population.
The estimated population for the calculation of the death-rate is 258,395, and
for the birth-rate 281,138.
The former is an estimate of the civilian population ; the latter of the total
population based on the assumption that the ratio between the total and the civilian
population is the same in the Borough, as in England and Wales as a whole.
The war has made it impossible to adhere to the method of estimating the population
hitherto in use. Men of military age have been largely drafted to military
training centres, or sent abroad, and there has also been a great deal of migration
of the female population.
Births.
The total number of births during the year was 7,121, or 385 less than in
the previous year.
1,641 belonged to the Limehouse District, or at the rate of 30.4 per 1,000
of the population.