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The populations of the Wards are those of Census year and the
total is slightly less than that assumed for the whole District by the
Registrar General for 1925, but there is no reason to think that
any great changes have occurred in the Wards, except those of
Hale End and Higham Hill. Probably the Birth and Death-rates
of these Wards are actually less than those given.
At any rate, the figures, though not accurate, are based on like
data as in previous reports, and to this extent will serve for conclusions
to be drawn as to the relative improvement or otherwise
noticed from year to year in the constituent parts of the area.

I am unable to give the rates for 1921, and those for 1922 are
shown for comparison as the year following Census and when the
known populations of the Wards were fairly correct.
The decline in the birth-rate for the whole District in the last
25 years was nearly 40 per cent.; that for St. James' Street and
High Street 50 per cent., and Hoe Street nearly 54 per cent. Hale
End and Higham Hill Wards were in 1901 known as the Northern
Ward, but taking the mean for both as 16.7 the decrease is even
greater than in Hoe Street.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATES.
WHOLE DISTRICT.
During the year 758 deaths—males, 400; females, 358—were
registered within the District. Forty-two of these—males, 25;
females, 17—were of non-residents and are now excluded.
The deaths of those dying without the District numbered 586,
or nearly 45 per cent, of the whole. The great majority of these
occurred in Hospitals. Two hundred and fifty took place at Whipps
Cross Hospital, and 138 at the Central and Sick Homes—Institutions
under the Poor Law—120 died in London Hospitals, 23 in Mental
Hospitals, 11 at Sanatoria and 44 elsewhere.