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 during the year 1905
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LONDON AND THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS. Birth-rates (based upon Births registered in each Borough) and (Death-rates (rate distribution of Deaths in Public Institutions) during 52 weeks of 1905.*
BOROUGHS. | PER 1000 PERSONS LIVING. | Deaths under 1 year to 1000 Births registered. | ||||||||||||
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Deaths from | ||||||||||||||
Births. | ALL CAUSES. | Principal Epidemic Diseases. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping-cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Pyrexia† (Origin uncertain). | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | ||
27·1 | 15·1 | 1·70 | 0·00 | 0·37 | 0·12 | 0·12 | 0·32 | — | 0·05 | 0·00 | 0·72 | 1·41 | 129 | |
Paddington | 21·6 | 13.3 | 1·39 | _ | 0·42 | 0·05 | 0·02 | 0·34 | _ | 0·03 | _ | 0·53 | 0·96 | 123 |
Kensington | 19·3 | 14·0 | 1·39 | — | 0·31 | 0·l 2 | 0·05 | 0·33 | — | 0·07 | — | 0·51 | 1·14 | 144 |
Hammersmith | 26·2 | 13.9 | 1·70 | — | 0·24 | 0·09 | 0·18 | 0·48 | — | 0·04 | — | 0·67 | 1·16 | 135 |
Fulham | 30·4 | 15.l | 2·71 | — | 0·54 | 0·14 | 0·15 | 0·53 | — | 0·06 | — | 1·29 | 1·22 | 145 |
Chelsea | 21·3 | I4.8 | 1·03 | — | 0·07 | 0·l 2 | 0·07 | 0·30 | — | 0·05 | — | 0·42 | 1·51 | 117 |
City of Westminster | 16·8 | 13·5 | 0·81 | — | 0·22 | 0·09 | 0·03 | 0·16 | — | 0·02 | — | 0·29 | 1·51 | 114 |
St. Marylebone | 30·0 | 15·5 | 1·12 | _ | 0·29 | 0·l 2 | 0·04 | 0·19 | _ | 0·05 | 0·01 | 0·42 | 1·46 | 88 |
Hampstead | 16·2 | 9·3 | 0·53 | — | 0·09 | 0·07 | 003 | 0.19 | — | 0·02 | — | 0·13 | 0·83 | 94 |
St. Pancras | 24·7 | 15·8 | 1·50 | _ | 0·33 | 0·11 | 0·11 | 0·35 | _ | 0·03 | _ | 0·57 | 1·52 | 135 |
Islington | 25·2 | 14.5 | 1·47 | 0·00 | 0·36 | 0·11 | 0·10 | 0·33 | _ | 0·05 | — | 0·52 | 1·26 | 125 |
St0ke Newington | 20·5 | 12.9 | 1·14 | _ | 0·23 | 0·06 | 0.09 | 0·19 | — | — | — | 0·57 | 1·33 | 122 |
Hackney | 25·8 | 14.0 | 1·98 | 0·01 | 0·36 | 0·08 | 0·11 | 0·29 | — | 0·12 | — | 1·01 | 1.15 | 129 |
Holborn | 28·5 | 17·5 | 1·12 | _ | 0·20 | 0·07 | 0·07 | 0·30 | _ | 0·07 | _ | 0·41 | 2·84 | 92 |
Finsbury | 34·7 | 19.0 | 2·17 | — | 0·42 | 0·21 | 0·l 2 | 0·33 | — | 0·09 | — | 1·00 | 2·02 | 127 |
City of London | 13·5 | 17·4 | 0·57 | — | 0·04 | 0·04 | 0·09 | 0·09 | — | — | — | 0·31 | 1·34 | 149 |
Shoreditch | 33·5 | 19.7 | 2·96 | 0·02 | 0·54 | 0·24 | 0·15 | 0 ·76 | — | 0·03 | — | 1·22 | 1·96 | 167 |
Bethnal Green | 33·2 | 18·6 | 2·27 | — | 0·36 | 0·20 | 024 | 0·42 | — | 0·06 | 0·01 | 0·98 | 2·04 | 151 |
Stepney | 35·3 | 17.7 | 2·58 | 0·00 | 0·52 | 0·19 | 0·20 | 0·45 | — | 0·07 | 0·00 | 1·15 | 1·72 | 141 |
Poplar | 32·1 | 17·6 | 2·65 | — | 0·47 | 0·17 | 0·24 | 0·47 | — | 0·06 | — | 1·24 | 1·53 | 153 |
Southwark | 30·0 | 18·5 | 2·39 | _ | 0·74 | 0·13 | 0.21 | 0·38 | _ | 0·05 | — | 0·88 | 2.13 | 148 |
Bermondsey | 33·3 | 18·7 | 2·21 | — | 0·48 | 0·13 | 0·14 | 0·29 | — | 0·06 | — | 1·11 | 1·79 | 148 |
Lambeth | 28·3 | 14·9 | 1·50 | — | 0·31 | 0·10 | 0·12 | 0·26 | _ | 0·03 | _ | 0·68 | 1·38 | 115 |
Battersea | 27·4 | 14·5 | 1·99 | — | 0·71 | 0·14 | 0·07 | 0·29 | _ | 0·03 | _ | 0·75 | 1·34 | 131 |
Wandsworth | 26·0 | 12·6 | 1·46 | — | 0·34 | 0·11 | 0·11 | 0·29 | — | 0·04 | — | 0·57 | 1·02 | 119 |
Camberwell | 25·6 | 13·7 | 1·30 | — | 0·30 | 0·11 | 0·07 | 0·25 | — | 0·03 | — | 0·54 | 1·21 | 124 |
Deptford | 28·9 | 14·3 | 1·19 | — | 0·14 | 0·09 | 0·08 | 0·17 | — | 0·05 | — | 0·66 | 1·22 | 122 |
Greenwich | 25·9 | 13·4 | 1·30 | — | 0·17 | 0·05 | 0·16 | 0·14 | _ | 0·05 | _ | 0·73 | 1·26 | 119 |
Lewisham | 25·2 | 11·7 | 0·95 | 0·03 | 0·28 | 0·03 | 0·06 | 0·18 | — | 0·04 | — | 0·33 | 0·85 | 92 |
Woolwich | 28·4 | 12·8 | 1·02 | — | 0·10 | 0·08 | 0·14 | 0·13 | — | 0·06 | — | 0·51 | 1·52 | 102 |
In this Table 0·00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.005; where no
death occurred, — is inserted.
* The rates do not in all cases agree with those in some of the other Tables.
† Originally described as Simple Continued Fever.