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Walthamstow 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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Hoe Street with its lowest birth rate has the lowest Infantile
Mortality rate; Wood Street with a very slightly increased birth rate has
the largest death rate, larger than the Northern Ward with its birth
rate of nearly 40 per 1,000.
These rates may be looked on as a fair index of the character of the
populations concerned and the localities, with the exception of the
Northern Ward, whose high infantile mortality rate is mainly accounted
for by its high birth-rate.
SENILE MORTALITY.
Of the 1,162 deaths recorded, 201—or 17.8 per cent. were of
65 years and upwards, as compared with 15 per cent, in 1901.
In the St. James' Street Wards 24 were 75 or upwards.
„ High Street Wards 20 „ ,,
,, Hoe Street „ 29 „ „
„ Wood Street Ward 28 „ „
„ Northern Ward 12 „ „
The following table shews the number and causes of death for the
whole district, and the sub-divisions or wards.
This table is a combination of Schedule B (form of the Medical
Officers of Health Society), and Table IV. (Local Government Board
form).
ZYMOTIC MORTALITY.
The " Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases," viz. :—Small-PoXj Measles,
Scarlatina, Diphtheria, Fever (Typhus, Enteric and Continued), Whooping
Cough and Diarrhoea caused 125 deaths. If Enteritis be included,
the deaths were 186.
As deaths due to Enteritis, Gastro-Enteritis, Muco-Enteritis and
Gastric Catarrh are not included in the Zymotic Mortality rate, it
follows that any deaths omitted from these causes (that rightly belong to
Diarrhoea) lower the Zymotic rate and vice versa.
To obviate the lowering of the Zymotic rate I have included all
deaths certified as Enteritis under 1 year as belonging to the Zymotic
group, and consequently reckon 86 instead of 28, making a total of 188
deaths.
These deaths represent an annual rate of 1.81 compared with 2.82 in
1901; 2.72 in 1900; 2.81 in 1899; and an average of 2.86 for the
preceding 10 years.