Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham for the year 1901
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Table 10.
Showing Death Rates calculated per 1,000 persons living at all ages in the administrative County of London, and Metropolitan Boroughs during the 52 weeks of 1901, after distribution of
Deaths in Public Institutions.
Boroughs. | All Causes. | Principal Epidemic Diseases. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric. | Simple Continued Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Deaths under 1 year to 1000 Births Registered |
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County of London | 17·1 | 2·22 | 0·05 | 0·43 | 0·18 | 0·29 | 0·85 | o·oo | o·ii | 0·00 | 0·86 | 1·66 | 148 |
Paddington | 14·3 | 173 | — | 0·06 | 0·08 | 0·82 | 0·36 | — | o·io | — | 0·81 | 1·10 | 136 |
Kensington | 15·2 | 1·83 | 0.01 | 0·43 | 0·09 | 0·22 | 0·35 | o·oi | 0·06 | — | 066 | 1·37 | 163 |
Hammersmith | 17·0 | 2·86 | 0·18 | 0·42 | 0·12 | 0·32 | 0·71 | — | 0·14 | — | 1·02 | 1·42 | 168 |
Fulham | 15·8 | 2·81 | 0·02 | 0·28 | 0·14 | 0·35 | 0·56 | — | 0·14 | o·oi | 1·81 | 1·37 | 152 |
Chelsea | 16·6 | 1·31 | 0.01 | 0·12 | 0·07 | 0·12 | 0·39 | — | 0·08 | — | 0·52 | 1·68 | 138 |
City of Westminster | 16·0 | 1·84 | 0·09 | 0·32 | 006 | 0·12 | 0·26 | — | 0.11 | — | 0·38 | 1·89 | 185 |
St. Marylebone | 16·6 | 1·65 | 0·05 | 0·07 | 0·14 | 0·25 | 0·80 | — | 0·06 | — | 0·78 | 1·89 | 107 |
Hampstead | 10·6 | 1·02 | 0·02 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0·24 | 0·29 | — | 0·09 | — | 0·32 | 0·91 | 104 |
St. Pancras | 18·3 | 2·89 | 0·17 | 0·29 | 0·14 | 0·46 | 0·37 | — | 0·13 | — | 0·83 | 1·87 | 154 |