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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hammersmith 1911

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1911

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Table: Corrected Death-rates of Metropolitan Boroughs after Distribution of Deaths in Public Institutions, &c., as calculated by the registrar-general for year 1911.

Corrected Death-rates of Metropolitan Boroughs after Distribution of Deaths in Public Institutions, &c., as calculated by the registrar-general for year 1911.

Death rate from all causes.
Average County of London15.8
Hampstead10.9
Lewisham11.8
Wandsworth12.6
Stoke Newington13.6
Woolwich13.7
City of Westminster14.0
Paddington14.3
Kensington14.7
Camberwell14.8
Greenwich15.0
Hackney15.0
Fulham15.0
Battersea15.3
Lambeth15.4
Islington15.5
Chelsea16.0
St. Marylebone16.1
*Hammersmith16.2
St. Pancras16.2
Deptford16.4
City of London16.6
Holborn16.9
Stepney18.1
Bethnal Green18.3
Bermondsey18.9
Southwark19.2
Poplar19.5
Finsbury20.5
Shoreditch21.1

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The calculation of the Registrar-General is not made on the same figures
as mine.
*I give the death rate of Hammersmith as 157, as I deduct the deaths of Non-Parishioners
which occurred at Nazareth House.