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Bethnal Green 1910

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1910 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

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London and the Metropolitan Boroughs. Birth-rates and Death-rates of Persons belonging to London and the Metropolitan Boroughs during the 52 Weeks of 1910.

Boroughs.Per 1000 Persons Living.Deaths under one year to 1000 Births.
Births.Deaths from
All Causes.Principal Epidemic Diseases.Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping-cough.Typhus.Enteric Fever.Pyrexia† Origin uncertain).Diarrhœa.Phthisis.
Crude.Cor-rected*
COUNTY OF LONDON23.612.713.41.14-0.410.040.090.28-0.040.000.281.14103
West.
Paddington20.211.812.61.08-0.450.050.060.21-_0.030.280.8496
Kensington17.511.912.80.77-_0.290.010.090.170.030.180.77106
Hammersmith24.012.212.71.33-_0.550.060.170.200.030.321.0499
Fulham23.810.511.01.13-0.360.040.080.330.010.310.94107
Chelsea18.412 .013.10.650.250.050.16-0.030.161.16101
City of Westminster15.311. 412.70.470.130.020.060.11-0.04-0.111.1284
North.
St. Marylebone18.712.813.70.93-0.220.060.070.35-0.05-0.181.10108
Hampstead14.08.69.70.46-_0.160.020.050.12-0.03-0.080.5960
St. Pancras24.113.814.41.39-0.590.070.090.40-__0.02-0.221.28102
Islington23.512.913.41.22-_0.480.030.090.350.050.000.221.1394
Stoke Newington18.011.011.50.58-__0.200.020.040.130.040.150.9164
Hackney22.111.712.20.840.280.020.030.250.04-0.221.0898
Central.
Holborn19.314.916.10.91-_0.26-0.070.300.090.191.98103
Finsbury29.917.618.21.92-_0.700.040.220.380.040.010.531.70123
City of London13.315.517.00.48-0.06-0.12-0.120.181.7066
East.
Shoreditch31.716.717.51.90-0.740.040.120.40-0.070.531.49146
BETHNAL GREEN32.115.315.51.47-0.450.070.150.270.14-0.391.43123
Stepney29.513.714.31.32-_0.330.040.090.360.050.451.31112
Poplar29.715.215.61.510.240.070.120.490.08-0.511.36118
South.
Southwark27.815.916.62.02-1.070.040.170.28-_0.03-0.431.74116
Bermondsey31.617.718.12.44-_1.140.110.150.340.030.671.76126
Lambeth22.512.512.90.99-0.370.070.080.170.050.251.1794
Battersea23.911.312.11.11-_0.390.040.060.270.040.010.301.0397
Wandsworth22.910.210.70.61-_0.140.040.040.230.030.130.8678
Camberwell23.312.112.51.09-_0.480.040.080.250.03-0.211.0894
Deptford25.214.014.71.47-_0.490.030.090.400.04-0.421.19122
Greenwich21.611.611.81.42-0.430.030.090.510.03-0.330.94107
Lewisham20.99.610 .00.61-_0.070.070.120.180.020.150.5580
Woolwich2.1010.511.20.62-0.160.090.030.19-0.010.010.131.0185

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 Corrected death-rates represent the Crude death-rates multiplied by the respective Factors for Correction for
differences of sex and age constitution of population.
† Called Simple Continued Fever previous to 1901.