[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham County Borough 1918].

  • West Ham (London, England). County Borough.
Date:
[1919]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham County Borough 1918]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ©muttrr gtovmtgh of ptvst fjmtt ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR THE YEAR 1918. To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors, I beg to submit my annual report on the work of the Public Health Department during the year 1918, and on the health con¬ ditions of the Borough. This will again, owing to the exigencies of the situation, chiefly consist of statistical results, and these must be considered with considerable reservations, having regard to the altered and constantly changing circumstances of the inhabitants. Population.—The census population in 1911 was 289,030, and the Registrar-General estimated the population of the Borough in the middle of 1918, for the purposes of the Birth rate and Marriage rate, at 294,523, and for the purpose of Death rate at 262,858, no deaths among Soldiers being included in the present report. The excess of births over deaths since census vear is shown in the following list:— t/ O Year. Births. Deaths. Excess Births over Deaths. 1912 8,642 4,146 4,496 1913 9,125 4,312 4,813 1914 8,848 4,425 4,423 1915 8,334 4,744 3,590 1916 ... 8,377 4,233 4,144 1917 ... 6,701 4,203 2,498 1918 6,021 5,492 529 A