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The foregoing Table shows the births as distributed in the
various Wards of the District, also the Birth-rate and Infantile
Mortality-rate for each area.
The populations assumed are practically as enumerated at the
Census, and very little error is possible in the rates given.
The birth-rates of High Street and Higham Hill Wards are
less by nearly 3 per 1,000 than in 1923; those of St. James' Street,
Hoe Street and Wood Street by over 1 per 1,000; and that of Hale
End shows a slight increase.
The highest birth-rate is that for St. James' Street and the
lowest was that in Hoe Street.
Death-rate.—The Table on page 9 shows the Birth and Death
rates for the Country and for this District.
The Death-rate for England and Wales for 1924 was 12-2;
the Great Towns, 12-3; and Walthamstow, 10-01.
Compared with the average for the previous five years our
Mortality was slightly greater in 1924 but yet well under the
Country as a whole.
The increase of 1-05 compared with 1923 is accounted for by
the greater number of deaths from Measles, Whooping Cough,
Heart and respiratory diseases.
The Death-rate for the Wards varied from 11-6 in Hoe Street
to 8-9 in Higham Hill.
A rate of 10 per 1,000 for the whole Area can be looked on as
favourable.
The Zymotic Death-rate was slightly over -19 per 1,000 as
compared with -3 in 1923, 1-07 in 1922, -52 in 1921, and 2-8 in 1901.
The deaths taken into account in forming this rate are the
so-called preventable ones arising from Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever,
Measles, Whooping Cough, Diarrhoea, Erysipelas and Typhoid.
Measles in an epidemic form started in January and lasted until
June. Isolated cases of Whooping Cough were reported in these
months also, but the disease in an epidemic form started in August
and continued throughout the remaining months of the year.
Seventeen children died from the latter disease and eleven
from the former.
All the children dying from Measles were under 5 years of age,
as were 15 of the 17 dying from Whooping Cough.