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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
Barnes 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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Summary of Statistics
for the year 1926.
Area of the District in Acres:—
Total area 2,650
Area excluding tidal waters and foreshore 2,519
Population (Registrar-General) 36,180
Density of Population per Acre 14.4
Number of Inhabited Houses (1921 Census) 7,939
„ „ Families or Separate Occupiers (1921
Census) 8,654
Persons per Inhabited House 3.6
Birth Rate (Registrar-General) 15.0
Death Rate (Registrar-General) 10.5
Infantile Mortality Rate per 1,000 Births 49.8
„ , (Legitimate Infants 40.4
a e or l Illegitimate Infants 273.0
Zymotic Death Rate 0.28
Phthisis Death Rate 0.69
Rateable Value £367,103 0 0
Sum Rkpresbnted by a Penny Rate £1,350 0 0