Report for the year 1908 of the Medical Officer of Health.

  • Hampstead (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1909]
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Credit: Report for the year 1908 of the Medical Officer of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    16 Ward. Births. Birth rate per 1000 of the population Males. Females. Total. No. 1 (Town) - 120 105 225 15.9 No. 2 (Belsize) 113 92 205 13.9 No. 3 (Adelaide) 50 43 93 8.6 No. 4 (Central)- 58 46 104 9.8 No. 5 (West End) 130 124 254 17.7 No 6 (Kilburn)- 201 192 393 23.6 No. 7 (Priory)- 63 63 126 11.2 The Borough - 735 665 1400 14.9 The Natural Increase of the population, i.e. the excess of births over deaths, was 597 in 1908. DEATHS The total deaths occurring in Hampstead during the year amounted to 995. Of these, however, no less than 311 were of persons not belonging to the Borough, while 119 residents of Hampstead died in outlying districts. The total number of deaths, therefore, amongst persons belonging to Hampstead amounted to 803. This is the lowest number of Hampstead deaths occurring in any year since 1894, when the number of deaths was 798. In that year, however, the population of Hampstead was less by nearly 20,000 persons than it was in 1908. Death-rate The death-rate, calculated upon the total number of deaths (whether of resident or non-resident persons) occurring in the Borough during the year, was 10.6 per 1,000 of the population; but after subtracting from the total deaths registered the deaths of non-resident persons dying in Hampstead, and adding the deaths of Hampstead residents who died outside the district, the recorded