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Tracts of forest land and water, including what are commonly known
as Wanstead Park and Wanstead Flats, and comprising in all about 509
acres, abound in the southern portion of the district.
These permanent open spaces, being secured against the future
inroads of the builder, will doubtless preserve to a large extent the present
residential character of the district.
The population is fairly distributed north and south, and the central
part contains practically the whole of the cottage, shop, and business
premises. Here the population is more compact.
When the Census was taken in April, 1911, the population, excluding
895 in the Orphanages and about 250 at the Aldersbrook Cottage Homes,
worked out at 4'52 per house, whereas prior to that it was 5.
In 1914, the number of inmates at the Orphanages, the Aldersbrook
and Cottage Homes totalled 1,257. This number, therefore, has to be
deducted in calculating the birth rate.
The number of inhabited houses at Midsummer, 1914 was 3,344
The number of uninhabited houses at Midsummer was 202
The number of inhabited houses at Christmas was 3,464
The number of uninhabited houses at Christmas was 185
The number of new houses passed in the year was 96
The estimated population at the middle of the year was 16,671.
DEATH RATE.—The number registered here was 107 minus 4
aliens, plus 38 residents who died elsewhere. For the latter information
I am indebted to the County Medical Officer. The corrected death
rate, therefore, was 8.45 per 1,000.
BIRTH RATE:—The total number of births registered was 216;
to this must be added 2 born outside the Parish. The corrected number,
therefore, was 218, viz., 114 boys and 104 girls; 1 was illegitimate.
The birth rate wasl4.14.
INFANT MORTALITY.—There were 10 deaths under 1 year.
Two of these were premature. The rate per 1,000 net births was 45.8
as compared with 61.7 in 1913.
My Council does not consider it necessary to adopt the Notification
of Births Act.