Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1909
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DEATH-RATES (CORRECTED) IN METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS DURING 1909 PER 1000 PERSONS LIVING.
All Causes | Principal Epide'ic Diseases | Small-pox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Whooping-Cough | Typhus | Enteric Fever | Pyrexia† (Origin uncertain) | Diarrhœa | Phthisis | Deaths under 1 year 1000 Births | ||
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West | Crude | Corrected* | ||||||||||||
Paddington | 12.9 | 18.8 | 0.91 | ... | 0.24 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.24 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.24 | 1.08 | 100 |
Kensington | 13.3 | 14.4 | 1.00 | ... | 0.32 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 0.22 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.27 | 0.96 | 113 |
Hammersmith | 14.3 | 14.9 | 1.7 | ... | 0.64 | 0.09 | 0.18 | 0.37 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.35 | 1.09 | 120 |
Fulham | 12.0 | 12.6 | 1.57 | ... | 0.42 | 0.06 | 0.23 | 0.28 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.56 | 1.17 | 108 |
Chelsea | 14.4 | 15.0 | 1.00 | ... | 0.32 | 0.08 | 0.20 | 0.17 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.20 | 1.45 | 107 |
City of Westminster | 13.1 | 14.7 | 0.63 | 0.01 | 0.15 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.10 | 1.34 | 95 |
North | ||||||||||||||
St. Marylebone | 14.6 | 15.6 | 0.83 | ... | 0.26 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.20 | ... | 0.01 | ... | 0.23 | 1.35 | 99 |
Hampstead | 8.9 | 10.1 | 0.52 | ... | 0.15 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.19 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 0.04 | 0.61 | 75 |
St. Pancras | 14.8 | 15.5 | 0.97 | ... | 0.44 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.13 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.19 | 1.61 | 102 |
Islington | 14.0 | 14.6 | 1.22 | ... | 0.57 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.25 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.20 | 1.23 | 101 |
Stoke Newington | 11.3 | 11.8 | 0.63 | ... | 0.18 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.26 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.07 | 0.83 | 80 |
Hackney | 12.6 | 13.1 | 0.93 | ... | 0.24 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.22 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.32 | 1.22 | 102 |
Central | ||||||||||||||
Holborn | 15.6 | 16.8 | 0.85 | ... | 0.26 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.28 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.17 | 2.05 | 102 |
Finsbury | 19.2 | 19.9 | 2.36 | ... | 0.89 | 0.12 | 0.15 | 0.54 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.63 | 2.22 | 131 |
City of London | 20.3 | 22.3 | 0.72 | ... | 0.33 | - | - | 0.22 | ... | 0.06 | ... | 0.11 | 2.15 | 113 |
East | ||||||||||||||
Shoreditch | 19.0 | 20.0 | 2.87 | ... | 1.14 | 0.08 | 0.19 | 0.63 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 0.78 | 1.75 | 140 |
Bethnal Green | 16.8 | 17.0 | 1.99 | ... | 0.60 | 0.19 | 0.13 | 0.31 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.73 | 1.54 | 129 |
Stepney | 15.3 | 16.0 | 1.68 | 0.00 | 0.76 | 0.08 | 0.16 | 0.22 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.44 | 1.67 | 119 |
Poplar | 16.3 | 16.8 | 2.37 | ... | 0.91 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.49 | ... | 0.08 | ... | 0.64 | 1.29 | 129 |
South | ||||||||||||||
Southwark | 16.8 | 17.5 | 1.67 | ... | 0.60 | 0.07 | 0.16 | 0.27 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.54 | 1.79 | 119 |
Bermondsey | 18.8 | 19.2 | 2.74 | ... | 1.57 | 0.12 | 0.07 | 0.43 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.53 | 1.78 | 138 |
Lambeth | 14.1 | 14.5 | 1.19 | ... | 0.32 | 0.08 | 0.18 | 0.26 | ... | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.32 | 1.11 | 109 |
Battersea | 13.0 | 14.0 | 1.29 | ... | 0.49 | 0.04 | 0.12 | 0.34 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.26 | 1.22 | 107 |
Wandsworth | 11.9 | 12.5 | 0.96 | ... | 0.37 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.23 | ... | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.93 | 86 |
Camberwell | 13.4 | 13.9 | 1.08 | ... | 0.37 | 0.06 | 0.15 | 0.18 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.30 | 1.19 | 100 |
Deptford | 13.6 | 14.3 | 1.51 | ... | 0.57 | 0.10 | 0.13 | 0.40 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 0.26 | 1.25 | 102 |
Greenwich | 12.2 | 12.4 | 1.03 | ... | 0.34 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.18 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.33 | 0.99 | 100 |
Lewisham | 10.3 | 10.8 | 0.57 | ... | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.13 | 0.12 | ... | 0.01 | ... | 0.18 | 0.80 | 74 |
Woolwich | 11.9 | 12.8 | 1.02 | ... | 0.41 | 0.14 | 0.20 | 0.11 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.11 | 1.20 | 82 |
County of London | 14.0 | 14.7 | 1.31 | 0.00 | 0.48 | 0.08 | 0.13 | 0.26 | ... | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.33 | 1.31 | 108 |
N.B.-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 difference
of sex and age constitution of population.
† Called Simple Continued Fever previous to 1901.
The above table is taken from the Registrar General's Annual Summary, and the rates for Lambeth Borough differ slightly
from those given in this Repor