Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1894
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Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population middle of 1894. | Births. | Deaths | Annual Rate per 1,000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping-Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1,000 births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | |||||||||||||||
Clerkenwell | 65,312 | 2,180 | 1,243 | 33.5 | 19.1 | 2.7 | 174 | – | 49 | 10 | 34 | 38 | – | 8 | – | 35 | 145 |
St. Luke | 41,168 | 1,879 | 965 | 45.8 | 23.5 | 2.1 | 87 | 1 | 14 | 10 | 15 | 18 | – | 3 | – | 26 | 123 |
London City | 34,832 | 525 | 679 | 15.1 | 19.5 | 1.1 | 39 | – | 3 | 9 | 6 | 11 | – | 6 | – | 4 | 160 |
East Districts. | |||||||||||||||||
Shoreditch | 123,186 | 4,332 | 2,450 | 35.3 | 19.9 | 2.8 | 350 | 2 | 69 | 28 | 75 | 93 | 1 | 12 | – | 70 | 160 |
Bethnal Green | 129,840 | 4,636 | 2,642 | 35.8 | 20.4 | 3.5 | 457 | 5 | 135 | 27 | 133 | 70 | – | 27 | – | 60 | 151 |
Whitechapel | 75,498 | 3,178 | 1,613 | 42.2 | 21.4 | 3.1 | 231 | – | 66 | 23 | 46 | 52 | – | 10 | – | 34 | 154 |
St. George-in-East | 45,360 | 1,877 | 1,196 | 41.5 | 26.4 | 5.0 | 224 | – | 49 | 18 | 51 | 41 | – | 6 | – | 59 | 185 |
Limehouse | 57,000 | 1,906 | 1,403 | 33.5 | 24.7 | 4.3 | 244 | 1 | 93 | 33 | 51 | 27 | – | 8 | – | 31 | 174 |
Mile End Old Town | 108,242 | 4,042 | 2,281 | 37.5 | 21.1 | 4.1 | 439 | 4 | 157 | 37 | 82 | 74 | – | 13 | 2 | 70 | 156 |
Poplar | 170,217 | 5,800 | 3,225 | 34.2 | 19.0 | 3.2 | 549 | 10 | 214 | 40 | 108 | 77 | – | 31 | 1 | 68 | 153 |
South Districts. | |||||||||||||||||
St. Saviour Southw'k | 26,712 | 770 | 560 | 28.9 | 21.0 | 3.3 | 87 | – | 46 | 6 | 20 | 9 | – | 2 | – | 4 | 145 |
St. George Southw'k | 60,060 | 2,071 | 1,384 | 34.6 | 23.1 | 3.6 | 217 | – | 80 | 17 | 49 | 27 | – | 5 | – | 39 | 186 |
Newington | 118,512 | 4,201 | 2,369 | 35.6 | 20.0 | 2.8 | 327 | 2 | 103 | 19 | 61 | 75 | – | 14 | – | 53 | 158 |
St. Olave Southw'k | 12,984 | 431 | 268 | 33.3 | 20.7 | 2.8 | 36 | – | 19 | 4 | 3 | 7 | – | – | – | 3 | 128 |
Bermondsey | 84,053 | 3,095 | 1,734 | 36.9 | 20.7 | 3.3 | 279 | 1 | 79 | 23 | 66 | 51 | 1 | 16 | – | 42 | 146 |
Kotherhithe | 40,365 | 1,353 | 764 | 33.6 | 19.0 | 3.3 | 134 | – | 41 | 15 | 31 | 13 | – | 2 | – | 32 | 161 |
Lambeth | 282,574 | 9,231 | 4,845 | 32.8 | 17.2 | 2.4 | 676 | 1 | 181 | 64 | 141 | 109 | – | 46 | – | 134 | 133 |
Battersea | 101,558 | 5,024 | 2,573 | 31.2 | 16.0 | 3.1 | 493 | 2 | 151 | 32 | 116 | 75 | – | 28 | 1 | 88 | 146 |
Wandsworth | 179 518 | 4,423 | 2,224 | 24.7 | 12.4 | 1.8 | 317 | – | 75 | 20 | 80 | 55 | – | 21 | 2 | 64 | 114 |
Camberwell | 248,893 | 7,382 | 4,045 | 29.7 | 16.3 | 2.8 | 687 | 2 | 186 | 46 | 192 | 137 | 1 | 22 | – | 101 | 148 |
Greenwich | 173,128 | 5,374 | 2,976 | 31.1 | 17.2 | 3.1 | 540 | – | 144 | 59 | 132 | 112 | – | 32 | 1 | 60 | 138 |
Lee | 38,172 | 794 | 472 | 20.9 | 12.4 | 1.7 | 64 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 21 | 11 | 1 | 3 | – | 8 | 94 |
Lewisham | 79 903 | 2,040 | 1,097 | 25.6 | 13.8 | 1.9 | 154 | – | 39 | 12 | 30 | 35 | – | 14 | – | 24 | 128 |
Woolwich | 42,309 | 1,271 | 753 | 30.1 | 17.8 | 2.6 | 110 | 1 | 39 | 22 | 14 | 12 | – | 6 | – | 16 | 136 |
Plunistead | 59,233 | 1,910 | 736 | 32.3 | 12.5 | 2.1 | 124 | 2 | 21 | 23 | 36 | 30 | – | 6 | – | 6 | 0 |