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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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S.D. 62.
(1) Estimated Mid-year Resident Population
(a) 207,800
| Live Births registered (excluding re-registrations) | Inward transfers | Outward transfers | Live Births allocated to the Borough | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Live Births (Legitimate and Illegitimate) | Males | 2,641 | 90 | 1,153 | 1,578 | |||||||
| Females | 2,524 | 76 | 1,111 | 1,489 | ||||||||
| Illegitimate Live Births | Males | 67 | 12 | 20 | 58 | |||||||
| Females | 63 | 10 | 15 | 59 | ||||||||
| (3) STILLBIRTHS. | ||||||||||||
| Stillbirths registered | Inward transfers | Outward transfers | Stillbirths allocated to the Borough | |||||||||
| Total Stillbirths (Legitimate and Illegitimate) | Males | 90 | 10 | 29 | 71 | |||||||
| Females | 68 | 31 | 41 | |||||||||
| Illegitimate Stillbirths | Males | 2 | 3 | _ | 6 | |||||||
| Females | 6 | — | — | 6 | ||||||||
| (4) NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES. (number of cases notified during the 53 weeks ended 2nd January, 1937) | ||||||||||||
| Smallpox | Scarlet fever | Diphtheria | Enteric fever | Pneumonia | Puerperal fever | Pueperal pyrexia | Erysipelas | |||||
| — | 526 | 530 | 5 | 202 | 2 | 36 | 119 | |||||
| (5) Area Comparability Factor, applicable to the "All Canses" crude death rate only 1.17 | ||||||||||||