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METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STEPNEY
Telephone: PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT
STEpney Green 43, White Horse Road,
2 484 Stepney,
LONDON, 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 for the year 1958 on the state
of the public health in Stepney.
The population is still declining slightly but steadily, and according
to the Registrar-General's estimate from 97,810 to 96,360.
There were 1,818 (1,853) live births and l,l6l (1,214) deaths. The
live birth rate is 18.86 (18.94), the death rate 12.04 (12.41) and the
infantile mortality rate 19.80 (24.28).
Two mothers died as a result of childbirth, giving a maternal mortality
rate of 1.07 (0.53).
Twenty-one babies died under the age of 4 weeks - a neo-natal mortality
rate of 11.55 (15.65) and there were 35 (35) still-births, giving a
still-birth rate of 18.88 (18.53).
There was no serious epidemic of infectious disease during the year.
Measles tends to recur biennially and after the high incidence of 1,399
cases last year, dropped to 199 in 1958. Total notifications of
infectious diseases were 883 (1,917).
Rates
Death Rate: Number of deaths per annum per 1000 population.
Still-birth Rate: Number of still-births per annum per 1000 total
live and still-births.
Live Birth-Rate: Number of live births per annum per 1000 population.
Infant Mortality Rate: Number of deaths per annum of infants under
one year of age per 1000 live births.
Maternal Mortality Rate: Number of deaths per annum of women ascribed
to pregnancy, child-bearing, abortion, etc. per 1000 live
and still-births.
(The figures in parenthesis refer to the previous year, 1957).
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