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 i ,000 Living. | Deaths of Children under one year of age to 1,000 Births. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Births. | Deaths. | Principal Infectious Diseases. | |||||
Middlesborough | 107,014 | 3,438 | 1,800 | 32. 2 | 16.9 | 1.99 | 144 |
Merthyr Tydfil | 76,522 | 2,586 | 1,303 | 32.6 | 16.4 | 2. 04 | 134 |
Northampton | 99,113 | 1,901 | 1,127 | 19.2 | 11. 4 | 0. 76 | 110 |
Norwich | 125,446 | 2,870 | 1,560 | 22.9 | 12.5 | 0. 69 | 103 |
Nottingham | 266,471 | 6,603 | 3,770 | 24.8 | 14.2 | 1.01 | 128 |
Newport (Mon.) | 79,729 | 2,442 | l ,069 | 30.7 | 13.4 | 1.13 | 113 |
Newcastle-on-Tyne | 285,951 | 7,542 | 3,950 | 26.4 | 13.9 | 1.15 | 121 |
Oldham | 144,111 | 3,712 | 2,485 | 25.8 | 17.3 | 1.79 | 127 |
Portsmouth | 217,989 | 5,801 | 2,995 | 26. 7 | 13.8 | 1. 36 | 104 |
Plymouth | 126,266 | 2,550 | 1,700 | 20.3 | 13.5 | 1.16 | 114 |
Preston | 119,253 | 2,812 | 1,937 | 23. 6 | 16.3 | 1. 71 | 158 |
Rochdale | 90,497 | 1,951 | 1,349 | 21. 6 | 14.9 | 0.82 | 104 |
Rotherham | 66,414 | 1,873 | 898 | 28.3 | 13.6 | 1.52 | 131 |
Rhondda | 138,674 | 5,627 | 2,162 | 40.7 | 15.6 | 1. 69 | 136 |
Reading | 84,355 | 1,761 | 834 | 19.9 | 9.9 | 0.35 | 75 |
St. Helens | 96,523 | 3,139 | 1,394 | 32.6 | 14.5 | 1.35 | 123 |
Southampton | 127,157 | 2,926 | 1,491 | 23.1 | 11.8 | 0.71 | 79 |
Smethwick | 72,350 | 1,967 | 785 | 27. 3 | 10.9 | 1.10 | 107 |
Stockport | 105,087 | 2,690 | 1,645 | 25.7 | 15.7 | 1.32 | 137 |
Salford | 244,636 | 6,526 | 3,696 | 26 .7 | 15.1 | 1.70 | 130 |
Sheffield | 478,763 | 12,662 | 6,402 | 26.5 | 13.4 | 1.50 | 127 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 53,680 | 1,471 | 813 | 27.5 | I5.2 | 1. 13 | 124 |
Sunderland | 161,083 | 4,583 | 2,548 | 28.5 | 15.9 | 1.44 | 129 |
South Shields | 119,737 | 3,350 | 1,623 | 28.1 | 13.6 | 12.5 | 113 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 245,726 | 7,548 | 3,913 | 30.8 | 16.0 | 1. 84 | 149 |
Swansea | 98,817 | 3,213 | 1,738 | 32.6 | 17.6 | 1.18 | 123 |
Tottenham | 132,803 | 3,696 | 1,516 | 27.9 | 11. 4 | 0.80 | 86 |
Tynemouth | 56,378 | 1,787 | 963 | 31.8 | 17.1 | 1. 89 | 125 |
Wallasey | 73,173 | 1,724 | 912 | 23. 6 | 12.5 | 0.97 | 87 |
Walthamstow | 141,748 | 3,188 | 1,288 | 22.6 | 9.1 | 0.63 | 95 |
Walsall | 101,035 | 2,746 | 1,210 | 27.3 | 12.0 | 1. 07 | 113 |
Warrington | 73,295 | 2,225 | 1,065 | 30.4 | 14.6 | 1.17 | 113 |
West Bromwich | 71,138 | 2,038 | 901 | 28.7 | 12.7 | 0. 98 | 105 |
West Ham | 328,585 | 8,659 | 3,831 | 26.4 | 11.7 | 1.20 | 101 |
West Hartlepool | 81,814 | 1,860 | 939 | 22.8 | 11.5 | 1. 48 | 131 |
Wigan | 9.732 | 2,725 | 1,388 | 29.8 | 15.2 | 1. 46 | 131 |
Willesden | 166,088 | 3,808 | 1,513 | 23.0 | 9.1 | 0.63 | 82 |
Wolverhampton | 105,962 | 2,384 | 1,326 | 22.6 | 12.5 | 0.72 | 107 |
York | 88,159 | 1,983 | 1,035 | 22.6 | 11.8 | 0.71 | 93 |