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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 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Summary of Report for 1920.
Population, Census 1911, 133,487.
Estimated Population for death-rates, mid 1920 (Registrar-
General), 150,207.
Estimated Population lor birth-rates (Registrar-General),
150,363.
Acreage, 3,326.
Persons per acre, 45.
Inhabited Houses, Census 1911, 24,263.
Births, 3,489. Birth-rate per 1,000 of the estimated population,
23.2.
Deaths, 1,479. Death-rate per 1,000 of the estimated population,
9.8.
Excess of births over deaths, 2,010.
Zymotic dtath-rate, 0.57.
Infantile Mortality per 1,000 births, 64.
Water Supply—Metropolitan Water Board.
COMPARATIVE STATISTICS.
Annual Rate
per 1,000 Living.
Rate per 1,000
registered Births.
Births.
Deaths.
Diarrhœa
& Enteritis,
(under 2
years.)
Infant
mortality.
England & Wales
25.4
12.4
8.3
80
96 Great Towns
26.2
12.5
10.4
85
London
26.5
12.4
9.5
75
EAST MAM
23.2
9.8
6.3
64