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WANSTEAD AND WOODFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL.
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
for the Year Ending 31st December, 1938.
Section A. Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area.
Area (in acres) 3,824
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, 1938 54,810
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1938) according to Rate Books 15,700
Rateable value (end of 1938) £566,982
Sum represented by a penny rate (1938-39) £2,225
Wanstead and Woodford constitutes an area five miles long by two
miles broad, the longest diameter running north and south. It contains
large tracts of forest and a number of lakes.
Extensive building is taking place within the area, and in a few years
time all available building land is likely to become covered with houses.
The highest point in the district is 215 feet, and the lowest 20 feet
above sea level.
The subsoil is clay interspersed with pockets of gravel.
The district is mainly residential, there being only a few small local
industries. The majority of the active inhabitants follow occupations in
London.
Extracts from Vital Statistics of the Year.
Total. M. F.
Live Births-
Legitimate 727 368 359
Illegitimate 17 12 5
Total 744 380 364
Stillbirths 20 10 10
Deaths 521 264 257
Birth Rate per 1,000 of the
estimated resident population
13.6
Rate per 1,000 total (live
and still) births 26.2
Crude Death Rate per 1,000
of the estimated resident
population 9.5
Adjusted Death Rate 9.2