Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Redbridge]
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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
(Land and Inland Water)
Area (In Acres) (Tidal Water ) 13,983
Registrar-General's Estimate of resident Population: —
June 30th, 1967 245,300
Number of inhabited houses( April 1 st, 1967)according toRate Books 77,326
Rateable Value — April 1st, 1967 £12,458,897
Sum represented by a penny rate, April 1st, 1967 £52,505
General Rate in the £ — 1967-68
Domestic Properties 11s. 71
Mainly Domestic Properties lls.l0d.
Non-Domestic Properties 12s. Od.
The following figures as to unemployment were supplied by the Ministry of
Labour (Ilford area only):
Males Females
As at December, 1967 1,070 132
1967
Live Births 3,627
Live Birth rate per 1,000 population - Crude rate 14.79
Adjusted rate 15.23
Illegitimate Live Births per cent of total live births 6.41
Stillbirths 40
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 10.91
Total Live and Stillbirths 3,667
Infant deaths (under 1 year) 66
Total Infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 18.20
Legitimate Infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate births 18.27
Illegitimate Infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate births 17.09
Neo-natal mortality rate per 1,000 live births (first four weeks) 13.51
Early Neo-natal mortality rate per 1,000 total live births (under
one week) 12.41
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under one week
combined per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) 23.10
Maternal deaths (including abortion) Nil
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 0.00
Deaths (all causes) 2,741
Death rate per 1,000 population — Crude Rate 11.17
Adjusted rate 10.61
Comparability Factors — Birth rate 1.03
Death rate 0.93
Total rainfall 1967 24.43 inches
Greatest rainfall in any 24 hours (on 25.6.67) 1.02