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tion I am indebted to Mr. A.S. Monckton, the Council's Road
Safety Organiser.
Statistics show that more children under 15 years of age
die from accidents in their own homes than frcm accidental
causes elsewhere,(including road accidents), or from any
single infectious disease. In children between 1 and 5
years a fatal home accident is the third largest cause of
death in England and Wales.
Statisticians estimate that 4 per cent of the population
suffer 'annually from home accidents of sufficient severity
to require hospital treatment, which involves a direct cost
to the nation of £4 million to £5 million per annum.
If local government public health authorities applied
their resources to the reduction of such accidents, good
results would ensue perhaps equal.to those achieved in the
field of infectious disease.
Infant Mortality.
The deaths of infants under one year of age numbered 39,
giving a rate of 21,12 per 1,000 live births, the lowest
rate ever, recorded in Stepney, as compared with 26.55 last
year-. The rate for England & Wales is 29.6, and that for
London 26.4. There were 27 deaths of infants under 4. weeks
old, representing a rate of 14.6 per 1,000 live births.
The main cause of death among infants under one year of age
was prematurity.
Maternal Mortality:
No maternal deaths occurred during the year.

The total unemployed at the end of 1951 was 1,741.