Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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. | |||||||||
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1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | |
Registration London West. | 0.31 | 0.38 | 0.33 | 0.32 | 0.44 | 0.75 | 0.61 | 0.52 | 0.59 | 0.50 |
Paddington | 0.66 | 0.36 | 0.34 | 0.20 | 0.23 | 0.58 | 0.76 | 0.38 | 0.51 | 0.51 |
Kensington | 0.55 | 0.67 | 0.20 | 0.17 | 0.20 | 0.49 | 0.46 | 0.53 | 0.40 | 0.47 |
Hammersmith | 0.42 | 0.49 | 0.51 | 0.75 | 0.74 | 0.53 | 0.49 | 0.43 | 0.49 | 0.28 |
Fulham | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.25 | 0.21 | 0.32 | 0.63 | 0.99 | 0.70 | 0.66 | 0.53 |
Chelsea | 0.15 | 0.25 | 0.58 | 0.17 | 0.41 | 0.54 | 0.54 | 0.59 | 1.17 | 0.56 |
St. George, Hanover Square | 0.56 | 0.37 | 0.16 | 0.26 | 0.33 | 0.43 | 0'.24 | 0.30 | 0.30 | 0.21 |
St. Margaret and St. John's, Westminster | 0.65 | 0.50 | 0.16 | 0.20 | 0.80 | 0.26 | 0.48 | 0.39 | 0.37 | 0.43 |
St. James, Westminster | 0.19 | 0.08 | 0.12 | 0.28 | 0.25 | 0.58 | 0.63 | 0.17 | 0.09 | 0.13 |
North. | ||||||||||
St. Marylebone | 0.16 | 0.23 | 0.19 | 0.18 | 0.34 | 0.66 | 0.51 | 0.25 | 0.52 | 0.33 |
Hampstead | 0.26 | 0.13 | 0.31 | 0.19 | 0.39 | 0.53 | 0.27 | 0.19 | 0.39 | 0.22 |
St. Pancras | 0.31 | 0.26 | 0.55 | 0.30 | 0.45 | 0.85 | 0.50 | 0.55 | 0.40 | 0.47 |
Islington | 0.16 | 0.20 | 0.25 | 0.50 | 0.47 | 0.61 | 0.67 | 0.44 | 0.74 | 0.38 |
Stoke Newington | 0.35 | 0.44 | 0.29 | 0.34 | 0.56 | 0.87 | 0.15 | 0. 15 | 0.56 | 0.56 |
Hackney | 0.59 | 0.39 | 0.47 | 0.62 | ||||||
Central. | ||||||||||
St. Giles | 0.27 | 0.42 | 0.24 | 0.30 | 0.53 | 0.58 | 0.36 | 0.34 | 0.18 | 0.19 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 0.19 | 0.13 | 0.07 | 0.28 | 0.84 | 0.58 | 0.44 | 0.53 | 0.23 | 0.24 |
Strand | 0.11 | 0.30 | 0.15 | 0.20 | 0.32 | 0.90 | 0.37 | 0.54 | 0.12 | 0.21 |
Holborn | 0.14 | 0.49 | 0.52 | 0.27 | 0.52 | 0.68 | 0.63 | 0.22 | 0.38 | 0.53 |
Clerkenwell | 0.39 | 0.36 | 0.28 | 0.42 | 0.42 | 1.15 | 0.51 | 0.51 | 0.62 | 0.73 |
St. Luke | 0.23 | 0.30 | 0.37 | 0.28 | 0.33 | 1.10 | 0.36 | 0.48 | 0.62 | 0.51 |
City of London | 0.27 | 0.30 | 0.28 | 0.34 | 0.66 | 0.31 | 0.18 | 0.24 | 0.34 | 0.33 |
East. | ||||||||||
Shoreditch | 0.28 | 0.56 | 0'46 | 0.53 | 0.36 | 1.1l | 0.61 | 0.47 | 0.60 | 0.64 |
Bethnal Green | 0.41 | 0.79 | 0.88 | 0.47 | C.91 | 1.06 | 1.03 | 0.78 | 0.57 | 0.65 |
"Whitechapel | 0.33 | 0.46 | 0.68 | 0.73 | 0.78 | 0.80 | 0.60 | 0.75 | 0.60 | 0.43 |
St. George-in-the-East | 0.33 | 0.94 | 0.65 | 0.42 | 0.72 | 1.34 | 1.09 | 1.06 | 0.62 | 0.59 |
Limehouse | 0.43 | 0.82 | 0.48 | 0.28 | 0.44 | 1.06 | 0.88 | 0.78 | 0.83 | 0.50 |
Mile End Old Town | 0.19 | 0.50 | 0.40 | 0.34 | 0.75 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 1.01 | 0.86 | 0.56 |
Poplar | 0.26 | 0.39 | 0.42 | 0.33 | 0.47 | 1.00 | 0.64 | 0.90 | 0.61 | 0.71 |
South. | ||||||||||
St. Saviour | 0.47 | 0.44 | 0.18 | 0.41 | 0.22 | 0.65 | 0.77 | 0.51 | 0.70 | 0.48 |
St. George - the - Martyr, Southwark | 0.39 | 0.34 | 0.23 | 0.30 | 0.44 | 0.75 | 0.82 | 0.28 | 0.65 | 0.46 |
Newington | 0.16 | 0.48 | 0.27 | 0.38 | 0.33 | 0.79 | 0.51 | 0.43 | 0.58 | 0.53 |
St. Olave | 0.32 | 0.08 | 0.31 | 0.40 | 0.24 | 0.57 | 0.25 | 0.34 | 0.76 | 0.17 |
Bermondsey | 0.16 | 0.27 | 0.22 | 0.19 | 0.24 | 0.94 | 0.78 | 0.34 | 0.84 | 0.73 |
Rotherhithe | 0.21 | 0.42 | 0.20 | 0.10 | 0.28 | 0.78 | 0.78 | 0.77 | 0.63 | 0.52 |
Lambeth | 0.40 | 0.58 | 0.27 | 0.28 | 0.47 | 0.65 | 0.49 | 0.38 | 0.46 | 0.48 |
Battersea | 0.20 | 0.23 | 0.27 | 0.46 | 0.35 | 1.07 | 0.73 | 0.57 | 0.49 | 0.63 |
Wandsworth | 0.46 | 0.30 | 0.14 | 0.23 | 0.40 | 0.67 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.21 | 0.57 |
Camberwell | 0.29 | 0.31 | 0.22 | 0.20 | 0.33 | 0.54 | 0.78 | 0.72 | 1.01 | 0.66 |
Greenwich | 0.22 | 0.19 | 0.28 | 0.28 | 0.31 | 0.87 | 0.77 | 1.06 | 0.78 | 0.39 |
*Lee | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.08 | 0.16 | 0.54 | 0.56 | 0.29 | 0.43 | 0.43 |
Lewisham (ex-Penge) | 0.47 | 0.07 | 0.21 | 0.11 | 0.27 | 0.69 | 0.38 | 0.17 | 0.88 | 0.42 |
Woolwich | 0.08 | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.34 | 0.34 | 0.74 | 0.80 |
•Plumstead | 0.41 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.11 | 0.70 | 1.18 | 0.64 | 0.62 | 0.91 | 0.39 |
The rates for Lee and Plumstead for all the years relate to those Sanitary Areas as constituted on
25th March, 1894.