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REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
for the
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STEPNEY
FOR THE YEAR 1924.
Public Health Department,
43, White Horse Street,
May, 1925.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have much pleasure in submitting to you my twenty-fourth Annual
Report which deals with the Vital and Sanitary Statistics of the Borough of
Stepney for the year 1924.
Population.
The estimated population is 254,340, distributed as follows:—
Limehouse, Ratcliff, Shadwell and Wapping 53,160
St. George-in-the-East 41,160
Mile End Old Town 105,200
Whitechapel, Spitalfields, Mile End New Town, etc. 54,820
Births.
The total number of births during the year was 5.457— 2,816 males and
2,641 females,—or 457 less than in the previous year.
The birth-rate was 21.4 per 1,000 of the population, while that for the
whole of London was 18.7 per 1,000.
1,503 of the births belonged to the Limehouse district, or at the rate of
28.2 per 1,000 of the population.
901 of the births belonged to St. Gcorge-in-the-East, or at the rate of
21.8 per 1,000 of the population.
2,241 of the births belonged to Mile End Old Town, or at the rate of 21.3
per 1000 of the population.