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Walthamstow 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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| Area | 4,343 acres. | |||
| Population | 127,441 | |||
| No. of inhabited houses (1911) | 26,399 | |||
| „ „ „ (1921) not yet given by Registrar-General. | ||||
| Rateable value | £511,535 | |||
| Sum represented by a penny rate... | £1,917 | |||
| M. | F. | |||
| Births | Legitimate | 1,384 | 1,369 | Birth rate 21.7 |
| Illegitimate | 31 | 30 | ||
| M. | F. | |||
| Deaths registered within District | 801 | 397 | 404 | |
| No. registered of non-residents | 25 | 7 | 18 | |
| No. of residents dying without the District 461 | 231 | 230 | ||
| Death rate 1921 | 95 | |||
| No. of women dying in, or in consequence of, child-birth | From Sepsis | 3 | ||
| „ other causes, | 10 | |||
| Deaths of infants under one year of age, per 1,000 births— | ||||
| Legitimate, 160; | Illegitimate, 13; | Total,173 | ||
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | 3 | |||
| „ „ Whooping Cough (all ages) | 8 | |||
| „ „ Diarrhoea (under two years of age) | 36 | |||
| Disease. | Total cases notified. | Cases admitted to hospital. | Total deaths. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | 380 | 259 | 12 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 983 | 517 | 5 | |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | 8 | 3 | ||
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Pneumonia | 49 | 35 | 88 | |
| Tuberculosis— | ||||
| Pulmonary | Males | 109 | 53 | 64 |
| Females | 101 | 54 | 53 | |
| Non-pulmonary | Males | 26 | 4 | 14 |
| Females | 20 | 5 | 13 | |
Thirty per cent. of those dying from Tuberculosis have not been
notified as suffering from the disease during their life time, and death
followed within three months of notification of 11 per cent.