[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough].

  • Hammersmith (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1932?]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA. General Statistics, 1931. Area 2,282.5 acres Population (1981) (estimated) 135,100 Population Census (1901) 112,289 (1911) 121,521 (1921) 130,295 (1931) 185,521 Natural increase, i.e., excess of births over deaths 421 Density of population 59.2 persons per acre Marriages registered 1,209 Number of inhabited houses 1931 17,402 Number of families or separate occupiers (1921) 88,263 Rateable value (1931) £1,137,121 Sum represented by a penny rate, 1931 £4,603 Vital Statistics. Births (legitimate) 1,915 ,, (illegitimate) 158 birth rate 15.3 Stillbirths. 39 death rate 12.2 Deaths (corrected) 1,652 Number of women dying in, or in from sepsis 2. consequence of childbirth from other causes 5 Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births 68 Legitimate, 64. Illegitimate, 114. Deaths from measles (all ages') 0 Deaths from whooping cough (all ages) 7 Deaths from diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 19