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REPORT
OP THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH AND PUBLIC ANALYST
FOR THE YEAR 1917.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have much pleasure in submitting to you my seventeenth Annual Report,
which deals with the Vital and Sanitary Statistics of the Borough of Stepney
for the year 1917.
Population.
The estimated population for the calculation of the death-rate is 232,010, and
for the birth-rate 258,626.
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.
Births.
The total number of births during the year was 5,625, or 1,496 less than in the
previous year. 2,836 were males and 2,789 were females.
The birth-rate was 21·7 per 1,000 of the population.
The birth-rate, although the lowest on record, is yet above that of London
as a whole which was 17·5 per 1,000 in 1917.
It may be of interest to give the figures in the Borough of Stepney for the last
few years:—
In 1912 the births were 8,579 and the birth-rate was 30·9 per 1,000.
In 1913 the births were 8,165 and the birth-rate was 29·6 per 1,000.
In 1914 the births were 7,983 and the birth-rate was 29·2 per 1,000.
In 1915 the births were 7,506 and the birth-rate was 28·2 per 1,000.
In 1916 the births were 7,121 and the birth-rate was 25·3 per 1,000.
In 1917 the births were 5,625 and the birth-rate was 21·7 per 1,000.
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