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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Battersea 1899

Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea during the year1899

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Table: TABLE XXXI. Death-rates from Phthisis in Metropolitan Sanitary Districts during 1899.

TABLE XXXI. Death-rates from Phthisis in Metropolitan Sanitary Districts during 1899.

Before Distribution.After Distribution.
Registration London1.881.82
West—
Paddington1.141.15
Kensington2.531.34
Hammersmith1.191.72
Fulham2.031.83
Chelsea2.561.79
St. George, Hanover Square2.491.36
St. Margaret & St. John, Westminster1.713.31
St. James1.102.11
North—
St. Marylebone1.081.98
Hampstead1.790.84
St. Pancras2.252.01
Islington1.911.59
Stoke Newington0.770.88
Hackney1.511.50
Central—
St. Giles2.213.13
St. Martin-in-the-Fields1.901.82
Strand2.092.70
Holborn2.343.08
Clerkenwell1.262.32
St. Luke2.803.53
City of London2.042.10
East—
Shoreditch2.002.10
Bethnal Green2.362.6
Whitechapel2.762.39
St. George-in-the-East2.072.50
Limehouse1.472.30
Mile End Old Town1.651.82
Poplar2.402.14
South—
St. Saviour1.493.44
St. George-the Martyr, Southwark1.813.53
Newington1.422.62
St. Olave4.162.53
Bermondsey1.242.14
Rotherhithe3.661.83
Lambeth1.641.75
Battersea1.651.53
Wandsworth1.011.21
Carnberwell2.321.53
Greenwich1.601.54
Lee0.921.00
Lewisham (excluding Penge)1.121.15
Woolwich1.352.46
Plumstead1.991.46