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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
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The method adopted by the Registrar General, of allocating
deaths in institutions to the districts in which the patients resided,
for however short a period immediately before admission, makes
the Finsbury death rate from phthisis higher than it otherwise
would be. A patient who sleeps one night in Finsbury and is
admitted on the next day to the Holborn Infirmary to die there,
is counted as a Finsbury death, even although he may never previously
have been in the Borough.
The death rates in the metropolitan boroughs are subjoined :— Phthisis Death Rates, London Boroughs, 1914.
| Borough. | Phthisis Death Rate per 1,000. | Borough. | Phthisis Death Rate per 1,000. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battersea | 1.22 | Lambeth | 1.42 |
| Bermondsey | 1. 63 | Lewisham | 0.75 |
| Bethnal Green | 1.64 | City of London | 1.2 |
| Camberwell | 1.43 | Paddington | 1.06 |
| Chelsea | 1.25 | Poplar | 1.8 |
| Deptford | 1 .4 | St. Marylebone | 1.3 |
| Finsbury | 1.78 | St, Pancras | 1.67 |
| Fulham | 1.32 | Shoreditch | 2.1 |
| Greenwich | l.35 | Southwark | 1.82 |
| Hackney | 1.28 | Stepney | 1.66 |
| Hammersmith | 1.4 | Stoke Newington | 1.1 |
| Hampstead | 0.66 | Wandsworth | 0.93 |
| Holborn | 1.97 | Westminster | 1.38 |
| Islington | 1.42 | Woolwich | 1.27 |
| Kensington | 1.10 | County of London | 1.39 |
Phthisis Death Rate, 1913 England nd Wales 1004