Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1924.

  • Hammersmith (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1925]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1924. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1924. General Statistics. Area 2,282.5 acres. Population (1924) 134,200 Population Census (1901) 112,239 (1911) 121,521 (1921) 130,287 Natural increase, i.e., excess of births over deaths 731 Density of population 58.8 persons per acre Marriages registered 1,097 Number of inhabited houses (1921) 17,402 Number of families or separate occu piers (1921) 33,263 Rateable value (1924) £940,366 Sum represented by a penny rate, 1924 £3,750 Vital Statistics. Births (legitimate) 2,264 „ (illegitimate) 135 J Dlrth rate 7.9 Deaths (corrected) 1,668 death rate 12.4 Number of women dying in, or in con from sepsis 4 sequence of childbirth from other causes 4 Deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000 births:— Legitimate, 68 Illegitimate, 148 Total, 72 Deaths from measles (all ages) 35 Deaths from whooping cough (all ages) 16 Deaths from diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 15 NATURAL & SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE DISTRICT. Population.—According to the Census of 1901, the popula tion of the Borough was then 112,239. By the Census of 1911 the population for the same area was 121,521, showing an increase during the 10 years of 9,282. The Census of 1921 shows the population of the Borough to be 130,287, being an increase in the 10 years of 8,766. In this report the rates are calculated on the estimated population up to the middle of the year. At the time of the last Census part of the Defence Force, which was mobilised as an emergency, was in camp on Wormwood Scrubbs. The estimated population adopted by the Registrar General is 134,200, but I believe this number to be below the actual population of the Borough. Since the census was taken, over thirteen hundred houses have been built by the London County Council and the Borough Council, in the