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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

Lewisham 1915

Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham for the year 1915

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Table: Table showing Population, Birth and Death Rates, and Infant Mortality, in the Metropolitan Boroughs and the County of London.

Table showing Population, Birth and Death Rates, and Infant Mortality, in the Metropolitan Boroughs and the County of London.

Boroughs.Population estimated to the middle of 1!)15.Births.Deaths.Birth Rate.Death Rate.Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age.
Number.Rate per 1000 Births.
County of London43100301016497239923.616.811369112
West.
Paddington1313972746226621.017.5316115
Kensington1557953118260720.117.1367118
Hammersmith1186802707193222.916.4275102
Fulham1511613870234925.715.6445115
Chelsea584211099111618.918.510696
City of Westminster1351041969222914.615.918292
North.
St. Marylebone1002601823170018.216.918199
Hampstead817601317101416.212.310378
St. Pancras2003224755352723.817.8496104
Islington3162427544555523.917.7812108
Stoke Newington5052791677818.215.694103
Hackney2178834844325922.315.0526109
Central.
Holborn .4040567275916.718.568101
Finsbury769152198164328.721.6281128
City of London .194611503087.715.118120
East.
Shoreditch1036273114205230.120.1450145
Bethnal Green1202073514211029.317.6430122
Stepney2657317512460328.317.4867115
Poplar1562474742304630.419.7628132
South.
South wark1794245239372729.320.9693132
Bermondsey1171883547250430.421.4527149
Lambeth2841886571494423.21.69693105
Baitersea1619453824264823.716.6428112
Wandsworth3122496278419520.213.458994
Camberwell2543856149391824.2l5.5635103
Deptford .1102992956194826.917.9390132
Greenwich963852335171024.316.3237101
Lewisham1644333267211619.312.8625879
Woolwich1295052823182821.914.226594

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Note.—The figures in this table are extracted from the Registrar-General's
Annual Summary. The death-rates appearing herein are standardised in order
to make correction for differences of age and sex constitution of the several
populations in 1911 as compared with that of England and Wales in 1901-