Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1907
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Towns | Population estimated to the middle of 1907. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1,000 Living. | Deaths of Children under one year of age to 1,000 Births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Infectious Diseases. | |||||
Middlesborough | 101,783 | 3.470 | 2,057 | 34 .2 | 20.3 | 2.85 | 158 |
Merthyr Tydfil | 76,085 | 2,727 | 1.483 | 35.9 | 19.5 | 2.27 | 154 |
Northampton | 95.070 | 1,956 | 1,169 | 20.6 | 12. 3 | 0 .93 | 122 |
Norwich | 119,191 | 2,968 | 1.735 | 25.0 | 14 .6 | 1.33 | 125 |
Nottingham | 257.489 | 6,889 | 4.497 | 26. 8 | 17.5 | 2.25 | 165 |
Newport (Mon ) | 75.585 | 2,416 | 1,163 | 32 .1 | 15. 4 | 1.74 | 122 |
Newcastle-on- Tyne | 272,969 | 8,089 | 4.335 | 29.7 | 15. 9 | 1.37 | 123 |
Oldham | 141.73O | 3.743 | 2.735 | 26 .5 | 19.4 | 1.52 | 144 |
Portsmouth | 208,291 | 5.796 | 3.332 | 27.9 | 16. 0 | 1.82 | 123 |
Plymouth | 120,063 | 2,776 | 1,760 | 23.2 | 14.7 | 0. 86 | 110 |
Preston | 117,093 | 3.129 | 2,226 | 26. 8 | 19.1 | 1. 66 | 158 |
Rochdale | 87.999 | 2,071 | 1.505 | 23 .6 | I7.2 | 1.12 | 122 |
Rotherham | 62,412 | 2,014 | 1,002 | 32. 4 | 16.1 | 2. 00 | 148 |
Rhondda | 130,400 | 4,829 | 2,117 | 37. 1 | 16. 3 | 1. 91 | 162 |
Reading | 80,311 | 1,805 | 994 | 22.5 | 12.4 | 1 .05 | 90 |
St. Helens | 92,476 | 3.155 | 1.704 | 34. 2 | 18.5 | 2 .99 | 155 |
Southampton | 119.795 | 2.757 | 1.556 | 23. I | 13 .0 | 0 .83 | 83 |
Smethwiek | 66,467 | 1,908 | 859 | 28.8 | 13.0 | 1. 14 | 117 |
Stockport | 100,986 | 2,707 | 1.786 | 26 .9 | 17. 7 | 1. 53 | 159 |
Salford | 236,670 | 6,892 | 4. 176 | 29.2 | 17.7 | 2. 14 | 140 |
Sheffield | 455.553 | 14,046 | 7.750 | 30. 9 | 17 .1 | 2.64 | 145 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 52,909 | 1,658 | 953 | 31. 4 | 18.1 | 1 .78 | 114 |
Sunderland | 156,029 | 5.330 | 2.983 | 34.3 | 19.2 | 1. 84 | 130 |
South Shields | 113,460 | 3,276 | 1,891 | 29.0 | 16. 7 | 1. 36 | 133 |
Swansea | 97.324 | 3.'57 | 1.737 | 32. 5 | 17. 9 | 1.27 | 132 |
Tottenham | 122.793 | 3.703 | 1,644 | 30.2 | 13.4 | 1.31 | 103 |
Tynemouth | 54.688 | 1.794 | 947 | 32. 9 | 17.4 | 1. 35 | 122 |
Wallasey | 66.707 | 1,760 | 889 | 13. 4 | 0. 78 | 99 | |
Walthamstow | 126,397 | 3.589 | 1.511 | 28.5 | 12. 0 | 1. 82 | 113 |
Walsall | 96,171 | 2,832 | 1,484 | 29.5 | 15. 5 | 2. 30 | 154 |
Warrington | 70,269 | 2,356 | 1,127 | 33 .6 | 2.01 | 121 | |
West Bromwich | 69,123 | 2,130 | 1,148 | 30. 9 | 16.7 | 2. 33 | 145 |
West Ham | 308,284 | 8.779 | 4.498 | 28 .6 | 14.6 | 2.18 | I31 |
West Hartlepool | 75.473 | 2,086 | 1,019 | 27.7 | 13.5 | 1 .03 | 127 |
Wigan | 88,608 | 2.730 | 1,649 | 30.9 | 18. 7 | 2. 60 | 163 |
Willesden | 149,192 | 4,161 | 1.715 | 28.0 | 11.5 | 1 .29 | 110 |
Wolverhampton | 102,016 | 2,684 | 1,641 | 26.4 | 15.2 | 1.44 | 130 |
York | 84.730 | 2,181 | 1.275 | 25.8 | 15.1 | 1.21 | 125 |