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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
Walthamstow 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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Distributing the births, as supplied by the Registrar, over the various
wards of the district, we have had in the four quarters of the year:—
TABLE VII.
| St. James Street. | High Street. | Hoe Street. | Wood Street. | Northern. | Workhouse. | Totals. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 1st quarter | 95 | 94 | 82 | 88 | 86 | 79 | 55 | 62 | 118 | 141 | 1 | 4 | 437 | 468 |
| 2nd quarter . | 108 | 96 | 97 | 86 | 75 | 80 | 65 | 51 | 128 | 114 | 3 | 3 | 476 | 430 |
| 3rd quarter | 86 | 96 | 114 | 93 | 86 | 79 | 59 | 44 | 115 | 114 | 8 | 2 | 468 | 428 |
| 4th quarter | 122 | 90 | 87 | 109 | 71 | 67 | 60 | 71 | 123 | 1.35 | 3 | 4 | 466 | 476 |
| 411 | 376 | 380 | 376 | 318 | 305 | 2.39 | 228 | 484 504 | 15 | 13 | 1847 1802 | |||
| Totals | 787 | 756 | 623 | 467 | 988 | 28 | 3,649 | |||||||
| Population | 23,600 | 20,400 | 23,100 | 16,600 | 24,300 | — | 108,000 | |||||||
| Birth-rate 1904 | 33'3 | 37" | 27" | 28-1 | 40-6 | — | 33-8 | |||||||
| Do. 1903 | 31-6 | 39-1 | 29-24 | 27-45 | 381 | — | 33-25 | |||||||