London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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St Pancras 1897

Annual report from the chairman of the health committee on the business of the department

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DEATH RATES FOR DIPHTHERI per 1000 living, in each of the Metropolitan Sanitary Areas, during the Ten Years 1888-97, after distribution of Deaths in Public Institutions.

Sanitary Areas.Year.
1888188918901891189218931894189518961897
Registration London West.0.310.380.330.320.440.750.610.520.590.50
Paddington0.660.360.340.200.230.580.760.380.510.51
Kensington0.550.670.200.170.200.490.460.530.400.47
Hammersmith0.420.490.510.750.740.530.490.430.490.28
Fulham0.130.150.250.210.320.630.990.700.660.53
Chelsea0.150.250.580.170.410.540.540.591.170.56
St. George, Hanover Square0.560.370.160.260.330.430'.240.300.300.21
St. Margaret and St. John's, Westminster0.650.500.160.200.800.260.480.390.370.43
St. James, Westminster0.190.080.120.280.250.580.630.170.090.13
North.
St. Marylebone0.160.230.190.180.340.660.510.250.520.33
Hampstead0.260.130.310.190.390.530.270.190.390.22
St. Pancras0.310.260.550.300.450.850.500.550.400.47
Islington0.160.200.250.500.470.610.670.440.740.38
Stoke Newington0.350.440.290.340.560.870.150. 150.560.56
Hackney0.590.390.470.62
Central.
St. Giles0.270.420.240.300.530.580.360.340.180.19
St. Martin-in-the-Fields0.190.130.070.280.840.580.440.530.230.24
Strand0.110.300.150.200.320.900.370.540.120.21
Holborn0.140.490.520.270.520.680.630.220.380.53
Clerkenwell0.390.360.280.420.421.150.510.510.620.73
St. Luke0.230.300.370.280.331.100.360.480.620.51
City of London0.270.300.280.340.660.310.180.240.340.33
East.
Shoreditch0.280.560'460.530.361.1l0.610.470.600.64
Bethnal Green0.410.790.880.47C.911.061.030.780.570.65
"Whitechapel0.330.460.680.730.780.800.600.750.600.43
St. George-in-the-East0.330.940.650.420.721.341.091.060.620.59
Limehouse0.430.820.480.280.441.060.880.780.830.50
Mile End Old Town0.190.500.400.340.750.730.741.010.860.56
Poplar0.260.390.420.330.471.000.640.900.610.71
South.
St. Saviour0.470.440.180.410.220.650.770.510.700.48
St. George - the - Martyr, Southwark0.390.340.230.300.440.750.820.280.650.46
Newington0.160.480.270.380.330.790.510.430.580.53
St. Olave0.320.080.310.400.240.570.250.340.760.17
Bermondsey0.160.270.220.190.240.940.780.340.840.73
Rotherhithe0.210.420.200.100.280.780.780.770.630.52
Lambeth0.400.580.270.280.470.650.490.380.460.48
Battersea0.200.230.270.460.351.070.730.570.490.63
Wandsworth0.460.300.140.230.400.670.450.250.210.57
Camberwell0.290.310.220.200.330.540.780.721.010.66
Greenwich0.220.190.280.280.310.870.771.060.780.39
*Lee0.140.140.140.080.160.540.560.290.430.43
Lewisham (ex-Penge)0.470.070.210.110.270.690.380.170.880.42
Woolwich0.080.150.120.050.100.200.340.340.740.80
•Plumstead0.410.270.270.110.701.180.640.620.910.39

The rates for Lee and Plumstead for all the years relate to those Sanitary Areas as constituted on
25th March, 1894.