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 1910
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ANALYSIS OF THE VITAL STATISTICS OF THE SEVENTY - SEVENGREAT TOWNS, each of which, as at present constituted, contained more than 50,000 Inhabitants at the Census of 1901.
Towns. | Population estimated to the middle of 1909. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1,000 Living. | Deaths of Children under one year of age to 1,000 Births. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Births. | Deaths. | Principal Infectious Diseases. | |||||
LONDON | 4, 872,702 | 114,870 | 61,756 | 23.6 | 12.7 | 1.14 | 103 |
Aston Manor | 86,269 | l,993 | 931 | 23.2 | 10.8 | 1.10 | 111 |
Birkenhead | 122,431 | 3,721 | 1,981 | 30.5 | 16.2 | 1.78 | 133 |
Bournemouth | 73,947 | 1,251 | 862 | 17.0 | 117 | 0 .32 | 75 |
Birmingham | 570,113 | 14,926 | 7,774 | 26.3 | 13.7 | 1.12 | 130 |
Blackburn | 137,972 | 2,947 | 1,948 | 21.4 | 14.2 | 1.33 | 136 |
Bolton | 190,315 | 4,348 | 2,546 | 22.9 | 13.4 | 1.08 | 117 |
Bootle | 70,548 | 2,015 | 1,033 | 28. 6 | 147 | 1.86 | 128 |
Bradford | 295,865 | 5,849 | 4,138 | 18.6 | 140 | 1.25 | 127 |
Brighton | 131,900 | 2,612 | 1,875 | 19 .9 | 14.3 | 1. 27 | 109 |
Bristol | 382,350 | 8,262 | 4,402 | 21.7 | 11.5 | 0 .59 | 190 |
Burnley | 107,448 | 2,671 | 1,748 | 24. 9 | 16.3 | 2. 47 | 168 |
Burton-on-Trent | 54,977 | 1,158 | 619 | 21.1 | 11.3 | 1.21 | 79 |
Bury | 59,402 | 1,235 | 869 | 20.8 | 14.7 | 1. 19 | 126 |
Barrow-in-Furness | 63,689 | 1,611 | 907 | 25.4 | 14. 3 | 2.05 | 120 |
Cardiff | 199,189 | 4,822 | 2,361 | 24.3 | 11.9 | 0. 96 | 111 |
Coventry | 81,449 | 2,675 | 1,156 | 32 9 | 14 2 | 1 04 | 87 |
Croydon | 164,483 | 3,810 | 1,804 | 23.2 | 11.0 | 0.60 | 87 |
Derby | 131,256 | 3,160 | 1,449 | 241 | 11.1 | 0.57 | 85 |
Devon port | 84,695 | 1,998 | 980 | 23.7 | 1l.6 | 1.16 | 103 |
Dewsbury | 51,224 | 1,061 | 825 | 20.8 | 16.1 | 1.20 | 145 |
East Ham | 156,208 | 3,420 | 1,390 | 22.0 | 89 | 0.65 | 94 |
Great Yarmouth | 53,715 | 1,39l | 773 | 26.0 | 14.4 | 0.64 | 100 |
Grimsby | 74,283 | 2,089 | 1,038 | 28.2 | 14.0 | 1.71 | 131 |
Gateshead | 133,676 | 3,622 | 1,730 | 27.2 | 13.0 | 1. 37 | 151 |
Handsworth | 72,335 | 1,414 | 607 | 19.6 | 8. 4 | 0.49 | 79 |
Halifax | 112,818 | 1,858 | 1,443 | 16.5 | 12. 8 | 0. 71 | 89 |
Hastings | 68,520 | 917 | 857 | 13. 4 | 12. 5 | 1. 03 | 91 |
Hornsey | 98,561 | 1,377 | 758 | 140 | 77 | 0. 39 | 70 |
Huddersfield | 94,702 | 2,165 | 1,572 | 22.9 | 16. 6 | 1.13 | 99 |
Hull | 280,006 | 7.594 | 4.258 | 28. 6 | 15.2 | 1.76 | 135 |
Ipswich | 75,936 | 1,787 | 1,028 | 23. 6 | 13.6 | 0. 94 | 97 |
Kings Norton | 84,673 | 1,798 | 676 | 21.3 | 8.0 | 0.62 | 67 |
Leeds | 490,985 | 10,867 | 6,691 | 22.2 | 13.7 | 1.28 | 132 |
Leicester | 248, 374 | 5,313 | 2,797 | 21.4 | 11.3 | 0.68 | 126 |
Liverpool | 767,606 | 23,057 | 13,587 | 30.1 | 17.7 | 2. 28 | 140 |
Leyton | 133,436 | 3,150 | 1,233 | 23.7 | 9.3 | 0.68 | 66 |
Manchester | 716,354 | 19,368 | 11,466 | 27.1 | 16.1 | 1.79 | 131 |