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Bethnal Green 1909

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1909 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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Table: London and the Metropolitan Boroughs.Births and Deaths of Persons belonging to London and the MetropolitanBoroughs during the 52 Weeks of 19091

London and the Metropolitan Boroughs.Births and Deaths of Persons belonging to London and the MetropolitanBoroughs during the 52 Weeks of 19091

Boroughs.Population estimated to the middle of 1909.Births.Deaths fromDeaths under 1 year of Age
All Causes.Principal Epidemic Diseases.Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping-cough.Enteric FeverPyrexia‡ (origin uncertain).DiarrhœaPhthisis.
COUNTY OF LONDON4,833,938116,55967632628522324383605124614621577633712582
West.
Paddington151,95531201956136. .361410364...36164312
Kensington183,68333622440183...58919408...49176379
Hammersmith125,70429951791210. .801123475...44137360
Fulham176,40643072113276...741040494...99205466
Chelsea75,2491391108475. .24615132...15109149
City of Westminster168,883273022121041251818197...16225260
North.
St. Marylebone126,02725951836105...3389251...29170258
Hampstead94,185132883950...1445185...45799
St. Pancras237,42256093510230...1051727306...45382570
Islington351,20283204913423...19926308613...69430843
Stoke Newington54,423102561234...1032141...44582
Hackney237,60154162988220...571019516...77289550
Central.
Holborn53,80297683645...1433151...9110100
Finsbury95,28928101829224...851114513...60211367
City of London18,19324736813...6....41...23928
East.
Shoreditch114,80236322178328...130922726...80200510
BETHNAL GREEN131,31641322201260...792517404..95202535
Stepney312,5259506475952612362651696...1375211130
Poplar171,96551922787405...15623208413...109221669
South.
Southwark211,12559693528350...1271433576..113377711
Bermondsey127,56941042388348...200159552...67227667
Lambeth324,18875784544387...10427588591103455823
Battersea186,03644472416239..90822637...49227477
Wandsworth297,64670053524286...1111427696158275601
Camberwell283,02266893776306...1051743525...84337666
Deptford118,58331171611178...671215476...31148317
Greenwich111,01424811350114...3897204...36110249
Lewisham160,7493529165693..61521202...29128262
Woolwich133,37429471587137..551926153..19160242

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* The Births in this Table have been corrected by distributing those which occurred in the chief Institutions
treating Maternity cases to the boroughs in which the mothers had resided previous to admission.
In 988 cases the residence was outside the County of London, and these cases have been excluded from this
Table. With regard to Deaths, all those of persons in, or on the way to, Hospitals or other Public Institutions,
as well as those of persons under treatment in surgical homes, or dying by accident or otherwise in
the streets, have been distributed, as far as practicable, to the boroughs in which the deceased had
previously resided. The deaths of 2528 London residents who died outside the County of London in
Metropolitan Workhouses, Hospitals, and Lunatic and Imbecile Asylums have been similarly distributed.
Of the deaths registered in London, the previous residence was outside the County in 3162 cases ana these
have been excluded from the above Table.
‡ Called Simple Continued Fever previous to 1901.