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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
FOR THE
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STEPNEY
FOR THE YEAR 1921.
Public Health Department,
43, White Horse Street
May 1922.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit herewith my twenty-first Annual Report
upon the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough for the year
1921.
Before proceeding to a detailed description, it may be interesting to
compare a short statistical summary of the population, births, deaths, infantile
mortality and infectious diseases, with the figures tor the year 1901,
when the Borough of Stepney first came into existence.
(1). Population. The population has declined by 48,862 in 20
years. This decline is due to the erection of factories and business premises,
the conversion of living rooms in the upper part of dwellings into domestic
workshops, the conversion of the ground floor rooms in private houses into
small grocery and provisions shops, fruiterers and vegetable shops, etc. A
number of slum properties has been demolished, more especially courts and
alleys with entrances only through covered archways.
The greatest reduction has been in that part of the Borough bordering
on the City.