Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922
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The following table gives the number of corrected births and the corrected birth-rates for the fifteen years 1908-1922: —
Year. | Total Births. | Legitimate Births. | Illegitimate Births. | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per1000 of population. | Proportion per 1000 total Registered Births | No. | Bate per 1000 of population. | Proportion per 1000 total Registered Births. | |
1908 | 1066 | 20.41 | 1020 | 19.53 | 956.8 | 46 | 0.88 | 43.2 |
1909 | 986 | 19.26 | 935 | 18.27 | 948.2 | 51 | 0.99 | 51.8 |
1910 | 1017 | 20.27 | 959 | 19.11 | 943.0 | 58 | 1.16 | 57.0 |
1911 | 920 | 18.73 | 865 | 17.61 | 940.2 | 55 | 1.12 | 59.8 |
1912 | 901 | 18.76 | 835 | 17.38 | 926.7 | 66 | 1.38 | 73.3 |
1913 | 798 | 16.99 | 743 | 15.82 | 931.1 | 55 | 1.17 | 68.9 |
1914 | 765 | 16.33 | 705 | 15.05 | 921.6 | 60 | 1.28 | 78.4 |
1915 | 670 | 14.44 | 616 | 1328 | 919.4 | 54 | 1.16 | 80.6 |
1916 | 649 | 15.63 | 585 | 14.09 | 901.4 | 64 | 154 | 98.6 |
1917 | 571 | 14.50 | 496 | 12.60 | 868.7 | 75 | 1.90 | 131.3 |
1918 | 497 | 1206 | 428 | 10.38 | 861.2 | 69 | 1.68 | 138.8 |
1919 | 539 | 1356 | 477 | 12.00 | 885.0 | 62 | 1.56 | 115.0 |
1920 | 827 | 20.84 | 749 | 18.87 | 905.7 | 78 | 1.97 | 94.3 |
1921 | 648 | 14.88 | 593 | 13.62 | 915.1 | 55 | 1.26 | 84.9 |
1922 | 664 | 15.49 | 602 | 14.04 | 906.6 | 62 | 1.45 | 93.4 |
In London the corrected birth-rate in 1922 was 21.0 per 1000 in comparison with 22.3 for 1921,
Mortality.
The total number of deaths registered as occurring in the Borough was 746 of
which 399 were males and 347 females.
Of these deaths the following occurred in Public Institutions, etc., within the urea of the Borough:—
Institution. | Residents. | Non-Residents. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
St. Giles and Bloomsbury. | Holborn. | St. Giles and Bloomsbury. | Holborn.p | |
French Hospital | 1 | _ | 28 | — |
Children's Hospital | — | 7 | — | 257 |
National Hospital | _ | _ | 69 | |
London Homoeopathic Hospital | 2 | 8 | - | 89 |
Italian Hospital | 2 | 4 | — | 35 |
Alexandra Hospital | _ | — | — | — |
Private | — | — | 23 | 5 |
Total | 5 | 21 | 51 | 455 |