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Any causes of Sickness or Invalidity which have been
specially noteworthy in the Borough during the year;
and any Conditions of Occupation or Environment which
appear to have had a prejudicial effect on Health.
East Ham, as befits an artisan residential area, is normally a
healthy town, but I would again direct the attention of the Council
to the increase, in recent years, of deaths from heart disease. As
I pointed out in my previous report the mortality from this cause
had risen nearly 70 per cent, in the five years ending 1930, and I
have to report for the year 1931 another increase, i.e., 299 deaths
for the year 1930 as against 329 deaths for the year under review.
The deaths from Heart Disease are set out as distributed in the
wards :—
Manor Park 47
Little Ilford 44
Woodgrange 41
Plashet 44
Kensington 30
Castle 29
Central 31
Wall End 21
Greatfield 22
South 20
Comprising this total there were 141 males and 188 females.
Only 29 deaths occurred under 45 years and 223 of the 329 deaths
were of persons over 65 years. These figures tend to show little
evidence of fatal acute rheumatic endocarditis in children and
young adults.
The number of births has decreased from 2,264 in 1930 to
2,045, and the birth rate has fallen from 15.3 in 1930 to 14.3
It is interesting to note that the pre-war rate in 1914 was 24.4 per
1,000 inhabitants.
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Infantile Mortality.
I regret that I cannot record another drop in the infantile
mortality rate, the rate being 59 per 1,000 births as compared with
Births.