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Leyton Urban District Council.
ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT
FOR 1917,
BY
J. FRANCIS TAYLOR, M.R.C.S., D.P.H,
Medical Officer of Health.
ASSESSABLE AND RATEABLE VALUE.
The present assessable value for general district purposes is
£485,964 10s. 0d., and a rate of 1d. in the £ produces £1,925.
For poor rate purposes the rateable value is £520,002 10s. 0d.,
and 1d. rate produces £2,054 10s. 0d.
AREA, INHABITED HOUSES, POPULATION.
The district has a total area of 2,594 acres; at the end of June
it contained 23,740 houses. The number of new houses erected
in the district during the year was 2.
At the 1911 census the population numbered 124,736, which
number divided among the inhabited houses gave an average of
5.63 persons per house.
The Registrar-General gives two estimates of population for
the year 1917. One is the estimate of the civilian population of
the district in 1917 and is used for the calculation of the (civilian)
death-rate. The other, which is used for the calculation of the
birth-rate, is an estimate of the total population, based on the
assumption that the ratio between total and civilian population
is the same in the district as in England and Wales as a whole.
Population for death-rates 112,452
Population for birth-rate 125,352
The death-rates and birth-rate in this report are calculated on
these figures.
BIRTHS.
The number of births continue to decline. 1,920 births
were registered—1,018 males and 902 females. To these must
be added 42 male and 43 female births (transferable) received
from the Registrar-General, which yields a birth-rate of I6.0 per
1,000 of the population.