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P.2.
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STEPNEY
ANNUAL (Abridjed) REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR
THE YEAR 1943.
AREA OF BOROUGH (In acres)1903.766
POPULATION: Registrar-General's estimate for the raid-year 1943
is not available for publication.
LIVE BIRTHS. Legitimate and illegitimate.
Rate per 1000 of the estimated resident population 18.8
STILL BIRTHS.
Rate per 1000 total (live and still) births 51.3
DEATHS. M 772, F 596. Total 1368.
PUERPERAL DEATHS: Rate per 1000 total
(live and still births).
Puerperal sepsis 1) 0,7)
Other puerperal causes 2) 3 1.4) 2.1
DEATH RATE OF INFANTS UNDER ONE YEAR OF AGE:
All infants per 1000 live births 53.2
Legitimate infants per 1000 legitimate live births 53.4
Illegitimate infants per 1000 illegitimate live
births 52.0
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 188
" " Measles " " 5
" " Whooping Cough (all ages) 2
" ” Diarrhoea (under 2 years
. . of age) 14
COMPARATIVE PATES FOR ENGLAND AND WALES, LONDON AND STEPNEY.
England & Wales,
London.
Stepney.
Live births
16.5
15.8
18.8
Deaths.
12.1
15.0
Infant Mortality
49.0
58.0
53.2
Puerperal Causes (death rate)
1.45
(not available)
2.1
NURSING IN THE HOLE.
The Council's arrangements with the East London Nursing
Society were continued for the nursing of cases of Measles,
Pneumonia following Measles, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Puerperal
Fever, Puerperal Pyrexia and Pemphigus Neonatorum and also all
complications and illnesses arising out of childbirth.