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Rateable value—
Poor Rate, £1,434,037.
General District Rate, £1,350,423.
Sum represented by a penny rate—General District Rate,
£5,627.
Chief Occupations of Inhabitants.
West Ham is a typical industrial Borough. Large
factories abound on the river frontages west and south; railway
works employing thousands of regular hands are located in
the north, and large docks— the staple support of casual
labour— intersect the south. The rest of the area may be said
to form the dormitory of artizans, clerks and others whose
daily work is carried on in London and district, together with
the local shops and retail businesses necessary for the welfare
of their families. There is no particular industry calculated
to specially affect the public health.
Extracts from Vital Statistics.
The Births during 1926 numbered 6,710, classified as follows: —
Total. Male. Female.
Legitimate 6,547 3,393 3,154
Illegitimate 163 86 77
giving a Birth Rate of 21.2 (Eng. and Wales 17.8), (105 Great
Towns 18.2).
The Deaths numbered 3,405, viz.. 1,796 Males, 1,609 Females,
giving a Death Rate of 10.7 (Eng. and Wales 11.6), (105
Great Towns *11.6).
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, child birth:
From Sepsis 9
From other causes 4
Maternal Mortality 1.9
Infant Mortality (Deaths of Infants under one year
of age per 1,000 births) 62.2
(Eng. and Wales) 70.0
(105 Great Towns) 73.0
Illegitimate Death Rate under one year (per 1,000
illegitimate births) 116
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 78
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) 20
Deaths from Diarrhoea (under two years of age) 93