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The percentage of illegitimate births registered in previous years
was:- 2.5 in 1923; 2.5 in 1922; 2.5 in 1921; 3.1 in 1920; 5.8 in 1919;
4.2 in 1918; 4.5 in 1917; 2.8 in 1916; 1.9 in 1915; 1.8 in 1914; 2.1
in 1913; 2.2 in 1912; and 1.7 in 1911.
The birth-rate, calculated on the net estimate of the population
of 88,791 is 16.2 per 1,000, as compared with 18.8 in 1923;
17.8 in 1922; 18.3 in 1921; 20.1 in 1920; 14.1 in 1919; 12.9 in 1918;
14.4 in 1917; 17.2 in 1916; 19.1 in 1915; 18.3 in 1914; 19.15 in
1913; 19.4 in 1912; 21.4 in 1911.
6. Deaths.—
The total number of deaths of Ilford residents was 877.
The total number of deaths registered in the
district during the year was 849
Number of deaths of non-residents registered
in the district (principally in large institutions)
231
The latter 231 deaths occurred as follows:—
In Claybury (L.C.C.) Mental Hospital 160
In West Ham Borough Mental Hospital 52
In Ilford Isolation Hospital and Sanatorium 1
In Ilford Emergency Hospital 7
Other non-residents 11
231
Included in the deaths of residents belonging to the district
are 7 which occurred in Dr. Barnardo's Village Homes.
To be added to the total number of deaths registered in the
district are 259 deaths of Ilford residents registered as having
died in other districts. This figure includes deaths at the following
institutions:—
The Infirmary, Romford 140
Essex County Mental Hospital 16
rIhe London Hospital 21
Queen Mary's Hospital, West Ham 9
Hospital for Sick Children, Gt. Ormond Street 3
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 8
In other Hospitals, Institutions and residences outside
the Ilford District 62
Total 259
The total number of deaths of Ilford residents was therefore
877.