Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1909
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Boroughs. | Estimated Population, middle of 1909. | Births. | Deaths. | Deaths from Principal Infectious Diseases. | Annual rate per 1,000 Living. | Annual Bate per 1,000 living. | |||||||||||||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Infectious Diseases. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria.. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Ill-defined Pyrexia. | Diarrhœa. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1000 births. | ||||||
Crude. | ♦ Correctd | ||||||||||||||||||
County of London | 4,833,938 | 116,559 | 67,632 | 6,285 | 24.2 | 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 |
Paddington | 151,995 | 3,120 | 1,956 | 136 | 20.6 | 12.9 | 13.8 | 0.91 | ... | 0.24 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.24 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.24 | 1.08 | 100 |
Kensington | 183,683 | 3,362 | 2,440 | 183 | 18.4 | 13.3 | 14.4 | 1.00 | ... | 0.32 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 0.22 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.27 | 0.96 | 113 |
Hammersmith | 125,704 | 2,995 | 1,791 | 210 | 23.9 | 14.3 | 14.9 | 1.67 | ... | 0.64 | 0.09 | 0.18 | 0.37 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.35 | 1.09 | 129 |
Fulham | 176,406 | 4,307 | 2,113 | 276 | 24.5 | 12.0 | 12.6 | 1.57 | ... | 0.42 | 0.06 | 0.23 | 0.28 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.56 | 1.17 | 108 |
Chelsea | 75,249 | 1,391 | 1,084 | 75 | 18.5 | 14.4 | 15.0 | 1.00 | ... | 0.32 | 0.08 | 0.20 | 0.17 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.20 | 1.45 | 107 |
City of Westminster | 168,883 | 2,730 | 2,212 | 104 | 16.2 | 13.1 | 14.7 | 0.63 | 0.01 | 0.15 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.11 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.10 | 1.34 | 95 |
St. Marylebone | 126,027 | 2,595 | 1,836 | 105 | 20.6 | 14.6 | 15.6 | 0.83 | ... | 0.26 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.20 | ... | 0.01 | ... | 0.23 | 1.35 | 99 |
Hampstead | 94,185 | 1,328 | 839 | 50 | 14.1 | 8.9 | 10.1 | 0.52 | ... | 0.15 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.19 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 0.04 | 0.61 | 75 |
St. Pancras | 237,442 | 5,609 | 3,510 | 230 | 23.7 | 14.8 | 15.5 | 0.97 | ... | 0.44 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.13 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.19 | 1.61 | 102 |
Islington | 351,202 | 8,320 | 4,912 | 423 | 23.8 | 14.0 | 14.6 | 1.22 | ... | 0.57 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.25 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.20 | 1.23 | 101 |
Stoke Newington | 54,403 | 1,025 | 612 | 34 | 18.9 | 11.3 | 11.8 | 0.63 | ... | 0.18 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.26 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.07 | 0.83 | 80 |
Hackney | 237,601 | 5,416 | 2,988 | 220 | 22.9 | 12.6 | 13.1 | 0.93 | ... | 0.24 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.22 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.32 | 1.22 | 102 |
Holborn | 53,802 | 976 | 836 | 45 | 18.2 | 15.6 | 16.8 | 0.85 | ... | 0.26 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.28 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.17 | 2.05 | 102 |
Finsbury | 95,289 | 2,810 | 1,829 | 224 | 29.6 | 19.2 | 19.9 | 2.36 | ... | 0.89 | 0.12 | 0.15 | 0.54 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.63 | 2.22 | 131 |
City of London | 18,193 | 247 | 368 | 13 | 13.6 | 20.3 | 22.3 | 0.72 | ... | 0.33 | ... | ... | 0.22 | ... | 0.06 | ... | 0.11 | 2.15 | 113 |
Shoreditch | 114,802 | 3,632 | 2,178 | 328 | 31.7 | 19.0 | 20.0 | 2.87 | ... | 1.14 | 0.08 | 0.19 | 0.63 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 0.78 | 1.75 | 140 |
Bethnal Green | 131,316 | 4,132 | 2,201 | 260 | 31.6 | 16.8 | 17.0 | 1.99 | ... | 0.60 | 0.19 | 0.13 | 0.31 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.73 | 1.54 | 129 |
Stepney | 312,525 | 9,506 | 4,759 | 526 | 30.5 | 15.3 | 16.0 | 1.68 | 0.00 | 0.76 | 0.08 | 0.16 | 0.22 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.44 | 1.67 | 119 |
Poplar | 171,965 | 5,192 | 2,787 | 405 | 30.3 | 16.3 | 16.8 | 2.37 | ... | 0.91 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.49 | ... | 0.08 | ... | 0.64 | 1.29 | 129 |
Southwark | 211,125 | 5,969 | 3,528 | 350 | 28.3 | 16.8 | 17.5 | 1.67 | ... | 0.60 | 0.07 | 0.16 | 0.27 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.54 | 1.79 | 119 |
Bermondsey | 127,569 | 4,104 | 2,388 | 348 | 32.3 | 18.8 | 19.2 | 2.74 | ... | 1.57 | 0.12 | 0.07 | 0.43 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.53 | 1.78 | 138 |
Lambeth | 324,188 | 7,578 | 4,544 | 387 | 23.4 | 14.1 | 14.5 | 1.19 | ... | 0.32 | 0.08 | 0.18 | 0.26 | ... | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.32 | 1.41 | 109 |
Battersea | 186,036 | 4,447 | 2,416 | 239 | 24.0 | 13.0 | 14.0 | 1.29 | ... | 0.49 | 0.04 | 0.12 | 0.34 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.26 | 1.22 | 107 |
Wandsworth | 217,646 | 7,005 | 3,524 | 286 | 23.6 | 11.9 | 12.5 | 0.93 | ... | 0.37 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.23 | ... | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.93 | 86 |
Camberwell | 283,022 | 6,689 | 3,776 | 306 | 23.7 | 13.4 | 13.9 | 1.08 | ... | 0.37 | 0.06 | 0.15 | 0.18 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.30 | 1.19 | 100 |
Deptford | 118,583 | 3,117 | 1,611 | 178 | 26.4 | 13.6 | 14.3 | 1.51 | ... | 0.57 | 0.10 | 0.13 | 0.40 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 0.26 | 1.25 | 102 |
GREENWICH | 111,014 | 2,455 | 1,354 | 110 | 22.19 | 12.2 | 12.4 | 0.99 | ... | 0.34 | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.18 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.31 | 1.01 | 102 |
Lewisham | 160,749 | 3,529 | 1,656 | 93 | 22.0 | 10.3 | 10.8 | 0.57 | ... | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.13 | 0.12 | ... | 0.01 | ... | 0.18 | 0.80 | 74 |
Woolwich | 133,374 | 2,947 | 1,587 | 137 | 22.2 | 11.9 | 12.8 | 1.02 | ... | 0.41 | 0.14 | 0.20 | 0.11 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.14 | 1.20 | 82 |
* The Corrected Death Rates represent the Crude Death Rates multiplied by the respective factors
for correction for differences of sex and age constitution of population.
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