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 1910
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Boroughs. | Estimated Population, middle of 1910. | Births. | Deaths. | Deaths from Principal Infectious Diseases. | Annual rate per 1,000 Living. | Annual Rate per 1,000 living. | |||||||||||||
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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. | ||||||||
Births. | Deaths. | ||||||||||||||||||
Crude. | * Corrected | ||||||||||||||||||
County of London | 4,872,702 | 114,870 | 61,756 | 5,559 | 23.6 | 12.7 | 13.4 | 1.14 | 0.00 | 0.41 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.28 | ... | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.28 | 1.14 | 103 |
Paddington | 153,004 | 3,084 | 1,796 | 164 | 20.2 | 11.8 | 1.08 | ... | 0.45 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.21 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.28 | 0.84 | 96 | |
Kensington | 184,635 | 3,217 | 2,190 | 141 | 17.5 | 11.9 | 12.8 | 0.77 | ... | 0.29 | 0.01 | 0.09 | 0.17 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.18 | 0.77 | 106 |
Hammersmith | 127,413 | 3,045 | 1,549 | 170 | 24.0 | 12.2 | 12.7 | 1.33 | ... | 0.55 | 0.06 | 0.17 | 0.20 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.32 | 1.04 | 99 |
Fulham | 181,282 | 4,303 | 1,907 | 204 | 23.8 | 10.5 | 11.0 | 1.13 | ... | 0.36 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.33 | ... | 0.01 | ... | 0.31 | 0.94 | 107 |
Chelsea | 75,457 | 1,382 | 950 | 49 | 18.4 | 12.6 | 13.1 | 0.65 | ... | 0.25 | ... | 0.05 | 0.16 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.16 | 1.16 | 101 |
City of Westminster | 167,233 | 2,554 | 1,893 | 78 | 15.3 | 11.4 | 12.7 | 0.47 | ... | 0.13 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.11 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.11 | 1.12 | 84 |
St. Marylebone | 125,195 | 2,331 | 1,600 | 116 | 18.7 | 12.8 | 13.7 | 0.93 | ... | 0.22 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.35 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 0.18 | 1.10 | 108 |
Hampstead | 95,729 | 1,340 | 822 | 44 | 14.0 | 8.6 | 9.7 | 0.46 | ... | 0.16 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.12 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.08 | 0.59 | 60 |
St. Pancras | 237,792 | 5,720 | 3,261 | 330 | 24.1 | 13.8 | 14.4 | 1.39 | ... | 0.59 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.40 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.22 | 1.28 | 102 |
Islington | 353,356 | 8,289 | 4,529 | 432 | 23.5 | 12.9 | 13.4 | 1.22 | ... | 0.48 | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.35 | ... | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.22 | 1.13 | 94 |
Stoke Newington | 54,838 | 984 | 600 | 31 | 18.0 | 11.0 | 11.5 | 0.58 | ... | 0.20 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.13 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.15 | 0.91 | 64 |
Hackney | 239,979 | 5,298 | 2,797 | 202 | 22.1 | 11.7 | 12.2 | 0.84 | ... | 0.28 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.25 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.22 | 1.08 | 98 |
Holborn | 53,142 | 1,022 | 792 | 49 | 19.3 | 14.9 | 16.1 | 0.91 | ... | 0.26 | ... | 0.07 | 0.30 | ... | 0.09 | ... | 0.19 | 1.98 | 103 |
Finsbury | 94,578 | 2,824 | 1,656 | 182 | 29.9 | 17.6 | 18.2 | 1.92 | ... | 0.70 | 0.04 | 0.22 | 0.38 | ... | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.53 | 1.70 | 123 |
City of London | 17,132 | 227 | 264 | 8 | 13.3 | 15.5 | 17.0 | 0.48 | ... | ... | 0.06 | ... | 0.12 | ... | 0.12 | ... | 0.18 | 1.70 | 66 |
Shoreditch | 114,387 | 3,613 | 1,905 | 217 | 31.7 | 16.7 | 17.5 | 1.90 | ... | 0.74 | 0.04 | 0.12 | 0.40 | ... | 0.07 | ... | 0.53 | 1.49 | 146 |
Bethnal Green | 131,579 | 4,208 | 2,010 | 192 | 32.1 | 15.3 | 15.5 | 1.47 | ... | 0.45 | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.27 | ... | 0.14 | ... | 0.39 | 1.43 | 123 |
Stepney | 314,379 | 9,258 | 4.303 | 414 | 29.5 | 13.7 | 14.3 | 1.32 | ... | 0.33 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.36 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 0.45 | 1.31 | 112 |
Poplar | 172,432 | 5,111 | 2,609 | 259 | 29.7 | 15.2 | 15.6 | 1.51 | ... | 0.24 | 0.07 | 0.12 | 0.49 | ... | 0.08 | ... | 0.51 | 1.36 | 118 |
Southwark | 211,832 | 5,873 | 3,360 | 427 | 27.8 | 15.9 | 16.6 | 2.02 | ... | 1.07 | 0.04 | 0.17 | 0.28 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.43 | 1.74 | 116 |
Bermondsey | 127,238 | 4,006 | 2,240 | 310 | 31.6 | 17.7 | 18.1 | 2.44 | ... | 1.14 | 0.15 | 0.34 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.67 | 1.76 | 126 | |
Lambeth | 327,074 | 7,344 | 4,091 | 322 | 22.5 | 12.5 | 12.9 | 0.99 | ... | 0.37 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.17 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 0.25 | 1.17 | 94 |
Battersea | 188,222 | 4,483 | 2,120 | 209 | 23.9 | 11.3 | 12.1 | 1.11 | ... | 0.39 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.27 | ... | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.30 | 1.03 | 97 |
Wandsworth | 305,838 | 6,980 | 3,102 | 185 | 22.9 | 10.2 | 10.7 | 0.61 | ... | 0.14 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.23 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.13 | 0.86 | 78 |
Camberwell | 286,058 | 6,657 | 3,439 | 308 | 23.3 | 12.1 | 12.5 | 1.09 | ... | 0.48 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.25 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.21 | 1.08 | 94 |
Deptford | 119,642 | 3,004 | 1,667 | 176 | 25.2 | 14.0 | 14.7 | 1.47 | ... | 0.49 | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.40 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.42 | 1.19 | 122 |
GREENWICH | 112,935 | 2,410 | 1,289 | 155 | 21.41 | 11.45 | 11.8 | 1.38 | ... | 0.42 | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.50 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.31 | 0.96 | 108 |
Lewisham | 164,899 | 3,439 | 1,585 | 100 | 20.9 | 9.6 | 10.0 | 0.61 | ... | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.12 | 0.18 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.15 | 0.55 | 80 |
Woolwich | 135,422 | 2,842 | 1,413 | 82 | 21.0 | 10.5 | 11.2 | 0.62 | ... | 0.16 | 0.09 | 0.03 | 0.19 | ... | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.13 | 1.01 | 85 |
* 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.