London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finsbury 1914
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1914
This page requires JavaScript
63
The infant mortality of Finsbury is 13 per cent. greater than
the figure for the whole of London, and 4 per cent. more than
the mortality prevailing in the 97 great towns.
The rates for the Metropolitan Boroughs are appended below :— Infant Mortality, 1914.
| Battersea | 92 | Lambeth | 104 |
| Bermondsey | 125 | Lewisham | 74 |
| Bethnal Green | 137 | City of London | 100 |
| Camberwell | 99 | Paddington | 95 |
| Chelsea | 67 | Poplar | 117 |
| Deptford | 99 | St. Marylebone | 98 |
| Finsbury | 118 | 3t. Pancras | 92 |
| Fulham | 13 | Shoreditch | 143 |
| Greenwich | 98 | Southwark | 123 |
| Hackney | 85 | Stepney | 125 |
| Hammersmith | 94 | Stoke Newington | 78 |
| Holborn | 88 | Wandsworth | 88 |
| Hampstead | 72 | Westminster | 79 |
| Islington | 104 | Woolwich | 84 |
| Kensington | 95 | County of London | 104 |
The infant mortality for the Borough for 1914 shows a marked
improvement when compared with other London boroughs. In
former years Finsbury has had the second or third highest figure.
This year it stands sixth, and its infant mortality rate, 118 per
1,000 births, is exceeded by the rates in Shoreditch, 143; Bethnal
Green, 187; Stepney, 125; Bermondsey, 125; and Southwark,
123,