[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton].

  • Leyton (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1926?]
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    4 Leyton Urban District Council ANNUAL HEALTH REPORT FOR 1925, BY J. FRANCIS TAYLOR, M.R.C.S., D.P.H., Medical Officer of Health. Area, 2,594 acres. Population census, 1921, 128,430. Population, June, 1925 (Registrar-General's estimate), 132,700. Number of families (1921), 30,939. Number of inhabited houses (1921), 23,665. Number of inhabited houses (1925), 23,960. Number of persons per house (1921), 5.39. Number of persons per house (1925), 5.57. Assessable value for General District purposes, £538,350 1s. 3d. Assessable value for Poor Rate purposes, £555,470 10s. Sum represented by a penny rate for General District purposes, £2,150. Sum represented by a penny rate for Poor Rate purposes, £2,275. Leyton is classified as one of the 105 great towns of England and Wales and is a component part of the outer ring of Greater London. Its present population as estimated by the Registrar General is 132,700. At the census of 1921 it was 128,430, and at the previous one, 1911, it was 124,735. At the last census the number of occupied persons in the area was found to be 40,342 males and 17,062 females, making a total of 57,404; of these, 38,201 worked outside the area. The number of unoccupied males, included those retired, was 6,284. Of the 38,201 outside workers it was found that 25,400 worked in London, 8,185 in West Ham, and 1,712 in Walthamstow. These figures help to demonstrate that Leyton is appropriately designated a dormitory of London.