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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 submit to you my Annual Report on
the health and sanitary conditions of the Borough of Stepney
for the year 1952.
The population as estimated by the Registrar-General
shows a slight increase, and is now 99,000 compared with
the 1951 estimate of 98,850 and the census figure of 98,581.
The total number of live births registered was 1,894
and the live birth rate is 19.13.
Stepney's infantile mortality rate* has again reached
a record low figure of 18.47 which compares favourably with
27.6 for England & Wales. The maternal mortality rate‡
is 3.08, the total number of maternal deaths being six,
whilst last year there were no maternal deaths (see page 5).
The general death rate for the Borough is 13.8, about
the same as last year.
The incidence of infectious disease continues to be low
with the exception of measles and whooping-cough, of which
there were 1,284 and 156 notifications respectively (1,459
and 226 in 1951).
* Infant Mortality Rate - the number of deaths per annum of infants
under one year of age, per 1000 children born.
‡ Maternal Mortality Rate - the number of deaths per annum of women
ascribed to pregnancy, childbearing, abortion, etc., per 1000 live
and stillbirths.
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