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WANSTEAD AND WOODFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
for the Year Ending 31st December, 1942.
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 1942 as given by the registrarGeneral
shows an increase of 3,200. The birth rate has increased by 4 per
thousand and the death rate by 0.37 per thousand.
Section A. Statistics and Social Conditions of the Area.
Area (in acres) 3,824
Registrar-Generals estimate of resident population, 1942 49,850
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1942) according to Rate Books 16,000
Rateable value (end of 1942) £576,843
Sum represented by a penny rate (1942-1943) £2,222

Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 16.1.