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WANSTEAD AND WOODFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL.
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
for the Year Ending 31st December, 1941.
In the year under review the public health of the district remained
satisfactory and the incidence of infectious disease approximately of the
pre-war standard.
The estimate of resident population 1941, as given by the RegistrarGeneral
shows a decrease of 2,000. The birth rate has continued to fall,
but there is also a fall in the death rate.
Section A. Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area.
Area (in acres) 3,824
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, 1941 46,640
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1941) according to Rate Books 15,950
Rateable value (end of 1941) £575,649
Sum represented by a penny rate (1941-1942) £2,201

Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population— 12.1,