Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1913 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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Boroughs. | Per 1000 Persons Living. | Rate per 1000 Births. | ||||||||||
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Births. | Deaths from | |||||||||||
All Causes. | Enteric Fever. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping cough. | Diphtheria. | PulmonaryTuberculosis. | Diarrhœa and Enteritis (under 2 years). | Total deaths under 1 year. | |||
Crude. | Standardized. | |||||||||||
County of London | 24.5 | 14.2 | 0. 02 | _ | 0.34 | 0.04 | 0.17 | 0.09 | 1.30 | 27.50 | 105 | |
West. | ||||||||||||
Paddington | 21.1 | 13.4 | 0.04 | . | 0.38 | 0.05 | 0.26 | 0.08 | 1.09 | 23.24 | 100 | |
Kensington | 19.3 | 13.7 | 0.02 | . | 0.48 | 0 .02 | 0.17 | 0 .03 | 1.08 | 23. 83 | 112 | |
Hammersmith | 24.2 | 13.9 | — | . | 0.37 | 0.06 | 0.37 | 1 .20 | 21.03 | 103 | ||
Fulham | 26 .9 | 12.5 | 0.05 | . | 0.31 | 0.02 | 0.17 | 0 09 | 1 .31 | 22.78 | 96 | |
Chelsea | 19.1 | 13 .9 | 0. 02 | . | 0.27 | 0 .05 | 0.08 | 0. 02 | 1.23 | 19.09 | 90 | |
City of Westminster | 14.2 | 12.7 | 0. 02 | . | 0.14 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 1.31 | 23.35 | 96 | |
St. Marylebone | 19.1 | 14.0 | 0.04 | _ | 0.28 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0. 05 | 1.36 | 16.66 | 91 | |
Hampstead | 15. 1 | 10 .7 | 0.01 | . | 0.24 | 0 .05 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.57 | 13.57 | 73 | |
St Pancras | 25.3 | 15.2 | 0. 03 | . | 0.19 | 0.03 | 0.14 | 0 .07 | 1.50 | 20.68 | 92 | |
Islington | 25 .3 | 15.1 | 0.02 | . | 0.32 | 0.05 | 0.18 | 0.10 | 1.33 | 26.44 | 107 | |
Stoke Newington | 22.3 | 18 .6 | 0.04 | . | 0.21 | 0 .02 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.93 | 13.99 | 82 | |
Hackney | 24.3 | 13.4 | 00.2 | . | 0.30 | 0.05 | 0. 10 | 0 .05 | 1.15 | 25.53 | 99 | |
Holborn | 16.7 | 14.6 | _ | . | 0.21 | — | 0.13 | 0.08 | 1.87 | 18.80 | 104 | |
Finsbury | 29.6 | 18.3 | — | . | 0.35 | 0.05 | 0.36 | 0.10 | 2.01 | 38.08 | 138 | |
City of London | 9.2 | 15.2 | 0.11 | . | — | 0.11 | 0.05 | 1.48 | 11.98 | 96 | ||
Shoreditch | 31.5 | 18.6 | 0.01 | _ | 0.47 | 0.03 | 0.26 | 0.13 | 1.79 | 58.92 | 155 | |
Bethnal Green | - | |||||||||||
Stepney | 29.3 | 14 .9 | 0.04 | - | 0.34 | 0 .03 | 0 .09 | 0.08 | 1.68 | 35. 06 | 112 | |
Poplar | 32.0 | 16.3 | 0.03 | - | 0.42 | 0.07 | 0.23 | 0.21 | 1.46 | 30.40 | 112 | |
Southwark | 31.0 | 17.4 | 0.03 | - | 0.55 | 0.06 | 0.20 | 0.10 | 1.85 | 30.66 | 115 | |
Bermondsey | 30.7 | 17.9 | 0.02 | - | 0.71 | 0.03 | 0.37 | 0.13 | 1 .61 | 42.35 | 132 | |
Lambeth | 23.9 | 14.3 | 0.03 | - | 0.33 | 0.05 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 1.29 | 27.93 | 102 | |
Battersea | 24.9 | 13.9 | 0.04 | - | 0.55 | 0.04 | 016 | 0.12 | 1.13 | 29.49 | 111 | |
Wandsworth | 20.4 | 10.6 | 0.01 | - | 0.35 | 0.03 | 0 07 | 0.05 | 0.86 | 21.64 | 88 | |
Camberwell | 25 .1 | 13. 7 | 0.02 | - | 0.26 | 0.05 | 0.20 | 0.07 | 1.15 | 26.83 | 106 | |
Deptford | 27 .9 | 15.3 | 0.02 | - | 0.45 | 0.03 | 0.41 | 0.15 | 1.30 | 29.97 | 112 | |
Greenwich | 26.0 | 14.2 | 0.02 | - | 0.41 | 0.02 | 0 .25 | 0.12 | 1.17 | 20.46 | 103 | |
Lewisham | 20.5 | 10.6 | 0.05 | - | 0.15 | 0.03 | 0.13 | 0.20 | 0.74 | 14.20 | 78 | |
Woolwich | 23.3 | 12.6 | 0. 01 | - | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0. 08 | 0.14 | 1.50 | 16.59 | 79 |