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 1911
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Boroughs. | Estimated Population, middle of 1911. | 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. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1000 births. | ||||||||||
Births. | Deaths. Crude. Corrected | ||||||||||||||||||||
County of London | 4,521,301 | 111,738 | 67,826 | 9,858 | 24.8 | 15.0 | 15.8 | 2.2 | 0.00 | 0.57 | 0.04 | 0.14 | 0.3 | ... | 0.03 | ... | ... | 1.18 | 135 | 129 | |
Paddington | 142,513 | 3,038 | 1,897 | 245 | 21.4 | 13.3 | 14.3 | 1.7 | ... | 0.34 | 0.02 | 0.08 | 0.31 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.94 | 1.22 | 127 | ||
Kensington | 172,203 | 3,252 | 2,349 | 318 | 18.9 | 13.7 | 14.7 | 1.9 | ... | 0.55 | 0.01 | 0.10 | 0.31 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.85 | 0.93 | 133 | ||
Hammersmith | 121,766 | 2,927 | 1,891 | 289 | 24.1 | 15.6 | 16.2 | 2.4 | ... | 0.30 | 0.04 | 0.23 | 0.29 | ... | 0.06 | ... | 1.47 | 1.26 | 146 | ||
Fulham | 153,705 | 4,121 | 2,203 | 347 | 26.9 | 14.4 | 15.0 | 2.3 | ... | 0.42 | 0.05 | 0.18 | 0.18 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 1.39 | 1.46 | 125 | ||
Chelsea | 66,189 | 1,269 | 1,020 | 101 | 19.2 | 15.5 | 16.0 | 1.5 | ... | 0.45 | 0.02 | 0.08 | 0.15 | ... | ... | ... | 0.83 | 1.45 | 109 | ||
City of Westminster | 159,662 | 2,358 | 1,983 | 133 | 14.8 | 12.5 | 14.0 | 0.8 | ... | 0.14 | 0.02 | 0.09 | 0.16 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.40 | 1.21 | 103 | ||
St. Marylebone | 117,761 | 2,376 | 1,772 | 191 | 20.2 | 15.1 | 16.1 | 1.6 | ... | 0.56 | 006 | 0.04 | 0.24 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.71 | 1.46 | 108 | ||
Hampstead | 85,589 | 1,276 | 823 | 58 | 14.9 | 9.6 | 10.9 | 0.7 | ... | 0.16 | ... | 0.20 | 0.04 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.26 | 0.61 | 78 | ||
St. Pancras | 217,941 | 5,559 | 3,371 | 420 | 25.6 | 15.5 | 16.2 | 1.9 | ... | 0.50 | 0.06 | 0.17 | 0.25 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.92 | 1.57 | 112 | ||
Islington | 327,203 | 8,108 | 4,853 | 649 | 24.8 | 14.9 | 15.5 | 2.0 | ... | 0.40 | 0.06 | 0.16 | 0.21 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 1.12 | 1.24 | 127 | ||
Stoke Newington | 50,614 | 1,045 | 658 | 81 | 20.7 | 13.0 | 13.6 | 1.6 | ... | 0.55 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.36 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.55 | 1.09 | 102 | ||
Hackney | 222,623 | 5,226 | 3,185 | 440 | 23.5 | 14.3 | 15.0 | 2.0 | ... | 0.67 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.26 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.88 | 1.40 | 119 | ||
Holborn | 49,092 | 945 | 768 | 61 | 19.3 | 15.7 | 16.9 | 1.2 | ... | 0.31 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | ... | 0.06 | ... | 0.69 | 2.08 | 115 | ||
Finsbury | 87,566 | 2,674 | 1,728 | 276 | 30.6 | 19.8 | 20.5 | 3.2 | ... | 0.90 | 0.07 | 0.19 | 0.27 | ... | 0.09 | ... | 1.63 | 1.87 | 156 | ||
City of London | 19,466 | 226 | 293 | 14 | 11.6 | 15.1 | 16.6 | 0.7 | ... | 0.05 | 0.5 | 0.05 | 0.05 | ... | ... | ...... | 0.52 | 1.60 | 124 | ||
Shoreditch | 111,199 | 3,533 | 2,226 | 413 | 31.9 | 20.1 | 21.1 | 3.7 | ... | 1.15 | 0.5 | 0.22 | 0.29 | ... | 0.01 | 2.00 | 1.84 | 170 | |||
Bethnal Green | 128,144 | 4,029 | 2,320 | 455 | 31.5 | 18.2 | 18.3 | 3.6 | ... | 1.02 | 0.4 | 0.16 | 0.38 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 1.94 | 1.63 | 151 | ||
Stepney | 279,309 | 8,743 | 4,833 | 873 | 31.4 | 17.4 | 18.1 | 3.1 | 0.03 | 1.09 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.18 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 1.68 | 1.77 | 144 | ||
Poplar | 162,274 | 5,015 | 3,054 | 655 | 31.0 | 18.9 | 19.5 | 4.0 | 0.01 | 1.39 | 0.06 | 0.27 | 0.27 | ... | 0.09 | ... | 1.95 | 1.32 | 157 | ||
Southwark | 191,531 | 5,693 | 3,509 | 523 | 29.8 | 18.4 | 19.2 | 2.7 | ... | 0.63 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.34 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 1.56 | 1.71 | 144 | ||
Bermondsey | 125,775 | 3,908 | 2,311 | 341 | 31.2 | 18.4 | 18.9 | 2.7 | ... | 0.44 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 0.40 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 1.69 | 1.78 | 156 | ||
Lambeth | 297,957 | 7,292 | 4,430 | 578 | 24.5 | 14.9 | 15.4 | 1.9 | ... | 0.38 | 0.03 | 0.14 | 0.23 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 1.13 | 1.41 | 123 | ||
Battersea | 167,712 | 4,372 | 2,391 | 397 | 26.1 | 14.3 | 15.3 | 2.4 | ... | 0.67 | 0.02 | 0.12 | 0.22 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 1.33 | 1.33 | 124 | ||
Wandsworth | 313,453 | 6,747 | 3.743 | 645 | 21.6 | 12.0 | 12.6 | 2.1 | ... | 0.74 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.22 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.94 | 0.89 | 122 | ||
Camberwell | 261,380 | 6,399 | 3,724 | 470 | 24.5 | 14.3 | 14.8 | 1.8 | ... | 0.43 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.17 | ... | 0.02 | ...... | 1.06 | 1.34 | 109 | ||
Deptford | 109,472 | 3,000 | 1,706 | 301 | 27.5 | 15.6 | 16.4 | 2.8 | ... | 0.63 | 0.06 | 0.14 | 0.34 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 1.57 | 1.27 | 142 | ||
GREENWICH . | 95,977 | 2.381 | 1,421 | 236 | 24.89 | 14.86 | 15.0 | 2.47 | 0.00 | 0.42 | 0.03 | 0.17 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 1.66 | 1.17 | 129 | ||
Lewisham | 161,712 | 3,420 | 1,821 | 205 | 21.2 | 11.3 | 11.8 | 1.3 | ... | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.17 | 0.11 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.79 | 0.64 | 104 | ||
Woolwich | 121,487 | 2,811 | 1,555 | 150 | 23.2 | 12.8 | 13.7 | 1.2 | ... | 0.23 | 0.02 | 0.09 | 0.05 | ... | ... | ... | 0.84 | 1.34 | 97 | ||
* 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. |