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West Ham 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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After the suitable adjustments rendered necessary by the foregoing
tables have been made, the net deaths of the Borough numbered
4,312 (2,309 males and 2,003 females), being 166 more than the
previous year and 56 more than the average for the last five years. This
makes an annual death-rate for the year of 14.42 per 1,000, or 0.28
less than the average death-rate during the five years 1908-1912, which
was 14.70 per 1,000.
Corrected for age and sex distribution, the annual death-rate
becomes 15 42 per 1,000, the factor for correction being 1.0693.
Both the foregoing birth-rate and death-rate, as well as the
subsequent rates, have been calculated from a population estimated at
299,054 for a 53 weeks year. The Registrar General's estimate for
the middle of the year being 294, 223.
During the year the number of houses completed and passed for habitation by the Borough Engineer's Staff were as follows:—
| New Town | — | West Ham | 2 |
| Forest Gate | — | Plaistow | 1 |
| High Street | — | Hudsons | 19 |
| Broadway | — | Canning Town | 1 |
| Park / | 3 | Tidal Basin | — |
| Upton | — | Custom House | 8 |
The Census figures for the Wards were published in the following
table in my Report for 1911, and the figures now given of the csti-