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West Ham 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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Table: The same method has been adopted in estimating the populations of the various Wards of the Borough, and in considering the following table in which the deaths are distributed to the several wards, it must be distinctly borne in mind that such estimates can be, at best, only approximate, and the rates founded thereon liable to wide correction hereafter.

The same method has been adopted in estimating the populations of the various Wards of the Borough, and in considering the following table in which the deaths are distributed to the several wards, it must be distinctly borne in mind that such estimates can be, at best, only approximate, and the rates founded thereon liable to wide correction hereafter.

WARD.Estimated Population middle of 1909.Deaths in 1909.Death Rate per 1,000 population.Infant Deaths per 1,000 Births.
Under 1 year.1 year and up wards.Total Deaths
New Town20,0506022228214.0129
Forest Gate21,6865419825211.6130
High Street21,34910024534516.1157
Broadway17,3875317122412.8132
Park16,9452416218610.974
Upton19,0572617620210.580
West Ham36,82710033443411.799
Plaistow34,00310234744913.293
Hudsons .29,81214537952417.5141
Canning Town28,78410535846316.0121
Tidal Basin35,07217743361017.1145
Custom House30,65713233246415.1136
311,6291,0783,3574,43514.2123

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Chief Zymotic Diseases.—The total deaths from the seven
principal Zymotic diseases numbered 680, making an annual Zymotic
death.rate of 2.10 per 1,000, the average Zymotic death.rate during
the previous ten years being 3.28 per 1,000. In the following tables
I append particulars as far as possible relating to each disease
separately—both notifiable and non.notifiable epidemic diseases. In