Report for the year 1919 of the Medical Officer of Health.

  • Hampstead (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1920]
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Credit: Report for the year 1919 of the Medical Officer of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 POPULATION. The following estimates, prepared by the Registrar-General, of population have been adopted in this Report for the calculation of the death-rate and birth-rate of the Borough for the year 1919:— For the birth-rate 91,682 „ death-rate 88,012 The birth-rate (and marriage-rate) population, on the other hand, is intended to include all the elements of the population contributing to the birth and marriage rates. It consists therefore of the death-rate (or civilian) population plus all non-civilians enlisted from this Borough, whether serving at home or abroad. The death rate population excludes all non-civilian males, whether serving at home or abroad. This, it is stated, is necessary for the purposes of local death-rates, because it has proved impossible to transfer the deaths of non-civilians to their areas of residence or to deal in any other satisfactory manner with the local mortality of this element in the population. The natural increase in population, i.e., excess of births over deaths was 120. I have prepared the following estimates of the population of each Ward based upon the figures quoted above:— Ward. Estimated Population for calculating birth-rate and marriage rate Estimated Population for calculating death rate. No. 1 (Town) 14600 14100 No. 2 (Belsize) 14500 14000 No. 3 Adelaide) 10982 10112 No. 4 (Central) 10800 10200 No. 5 (West End) 13600 13200 No. 6 (Kilburn) 15700 15600 No. 7 (Priory) 11500 10800 The Borough 91682 88012