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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
East Ham 1918
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Summary of Report for 1918.
Population, Census 1911, 133,487.
Estimated Population for death-rate (Registrar-General),
128,219.
Estimated Population for birth-rate (Registrar-General),
143,665.
Acreage, 3,326.
Persons per acre, 41.
Inhabited Houses, Census 1911, 24,263.
Births, 2,205. Birth-rate per 1,000 of the estimated population,
15.3.
Deaths, 1,943. Death-rate per 1,000 of the estimated population,
15.1.
Excess of births over deaths, 262.
Zymotic death-rate, 0.81.
Infantile Mortality per 1,000 births, 69.
Water Supply—Metropolitan Water Board.