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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
East Ham 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Summary of Report for 1929.
1. GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area in statute acres (land and inland water), 3,324.
Population. Census 1921, 143,246 (males 69,342, females
73,904). Adjusted to mid 1929, 147,600
Census, 1921:—
Number of inhabited houses 27,024
Number of families or separate occupiers 33,937
Ward Population.
Manor Park 15,006
Little I ford 17,642
Woodgrange 13,994
Plashet 14,740
Kensington 13,010
Castle 15,460
Central 15,556
Wall End 15,110
Greatfield 11,734
South 15,348
2. EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE
YEAR.
Total number of births, 2,169 (males 1,097, females 1,072).
Total number of illegitimate births, 48.
Total number of still births, 69.
Birth-rate, 14.7.
Deaths, 1,638 (males 815, females 823).
Crude Death-rate, 11.1.
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth
from sepsis, 5; other causes, 7.