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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STEPNEY
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
43, White Horse Road,
Stepney, E.l.
To the Mayor. Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
Your Worship, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Report on the state of
the public health in Stepney for the year 1951.
The population of the borough according to the
fifteenth Census of the Registrar-General, which was made
this year on April 8th, is 98.581. The last Census was
made in 1931, when the population was 225,238. The midyear
estimate of the population according to the RegistrarGeneral
is 98,850. The comparable estimate for 1950 was
99,730.
The Census population figure is used for statistical
purposes in this report.
The total number of births registered was 1,886.
compared with 1,888. last year. The live birth rate is
18.72.
Once again the infant mortality rate has reached a
record low figure, viz. 21.12, compared with 26.55 last
year. The continued drop in infantile mortality not only
in Stepney but throughout the country is the most reliable
index of the improved :health of the nation. At the commencement
of the century Stepney's infantile mortality rate
Was 165. The maternal mortality rate has also shown a
great improvement, and there were no maternal deaths this
year in Stepney.
The general borough death rate is 13.83, a..slight
increase on last year's 12*5$.. Sixty-six per cent of all
deaths occurred over the age of 65.
There were again" no deaths; from diphtheria, scarlet
fever or whooping- cough. No cases of smallpox or typhoid