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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
Kingston upon Thames 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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GENERAL STATISTICS.
Area 1,133 acres.
Population, 1927 (Registrar-General):
For birth-rate 39,330
For death-rate 39,080
Census (1921) 39,479
Number of inhabited houses (1921) 7,859
Number of families or separate occupiers
(1921) 9,210
Number of families per dwelling (1921) 1.18
Number of rooms per person (1921) 1.15
Rateable Value—
To Poor Rate £294,990
Assessable Value to District Rate £290,460
Sum represented by a Penny Rate—
Poor Rate £1,194
District Rate £1,178
Amount of Poor Law Relief (1927) £3,383
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EXTRACTS FROM VITAL STATISTICS OF THE YEAR.
| Births— | |||||||
| Total | Male. | Female. | |||||
| Legitimate | 529 | 259 | 270 | Birth Rate (R.G.) per 1,000 population. | 14.2 | ||
| Illegitimate | 31 | 15 | 16 | ||||
| 560 | 274 | 286 | Death Rate (R.G.) Per 1,000 population. | 12.1 | |||
| 47E | 233 | 242 | |||||
| Number of women dying in, or in consequence of child-birth— | |||||||
| From Sepsis | 0 | ||||||
| From other causes | 4 | ||||||
| Deaths of Infants under one year— | |||||||
| Legitimate | |||||||
| Illegitimate | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| 39 | 25 | 14 | |||||