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, 1897
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TABLE VII. TABLE VII
Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population in the middle of 1897. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Searlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever. | Diarrhœa. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1000 births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zy. motic Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
London | 4,463,169 | 13.3,618 | 78,971 | 300 | 17.7 | 2.56 | 11,453 | 16 | 1927 | 778 | 2240 | 1837 | 1 | 557 | 8 | 4089 | 7629 | 158 |
Paddington | 126,161 | 3,018 | 1,814 | 24.0 | 14.4 | 1.94 | 243 | 2 | 21 | 64 | 44 | 9 | 1 | 102 | 142 | 149 | ||
Kensington | 171,4.27 | 3,683 | 2,677 | 21.5 | 15.7 | 1.78 | 304 | 32 | 30 | 81 | 19 | 21 | 1 | 120 | 247 | 166 | ||
Hammersmith | 105,959 | 3,139 | 1,760 | 29.7 | 16.7 | 1.99 | 211 | 5 | 11 | 30 | 28 | 8 | 1 | 128 | 146 | 171 | ||
Fulham | 120.040 | 4,106 | 2,034 | 34.3 | 17.0 | 3.0 | 362 | 51 | 26 | 63 | 61 | 12 | 1 | 148 | 184 | 162 | ||
Chelsea | 96,692 | 2,549 | 1,713 | 26.4 | 17.8 | 2.55 | 244 | 18 | 17 | 54 | 41 | 14 | 100 | 175 | 161 | |||
St. George, Hanover sq | 80,330 | 1,369 | 1,059 | 17.1 | 13.2 | 1.10 | 89 | 17 | 7 | 17 | 13 | 10 | 25 | 93 | 133 | |||
Westminster | 53,027 | 1,237 | 1,004 | 23.4 | 19.0 | 2.47 | 131 | 26 | 13 | 23 | 16 | 6 | 47 | 143 | 166 | |||
St. James, Westminster | 22,576 | 459 | 393 | 20.4 | 17.5 | 1.87 | 42 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 51 | 163 | |||
Marylebone | 140,808 | 4,135 | 2,572 | 29.5 | 18.3 | 1.61 | 227 | 9 | 9 | 46 | 41 | 14 | 108 | 246 | 136 | |||
Hampstead | 77,275 | 1,479 | 911 | 19.2 | 11.8 | 1.16 | 90 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 25 | 5 | 28 | 57 | 127 | |||
St. Pancras | 242,255 | 7,017 | 4,518 | 29.0 | 18.7 | 2.47 | 597 | 1 | 87 | 24 | 114 | 124 | 38 | 209 | 486 | 168 | ||
Islington | 341,134 | 9,845 | 5,387 | 28.9 | 15.8 | 1.91 | 653 | 1 | 99 | 61 | 129 | 134 | 45 | 184 | 491 | 136 | ||
Stoke Newington | 34,136 | 835 | 488 | 24.5 | 14.3 | 2.12 | 72 | 7 | 2 | 19 | 15 | 10 | 19 | 40 | 121 | |||
Hackney | 216,698 | 6,312 | 3,573 | 29.2 | 16.5 | 2.90 | 626 | 127 | 37 | 134 | 97 | 35 | 190 | 310 | 147 | |||
St. Giles | 37,840 | 981 | 696 | 26.0 | 18.4 | 1.63 | 61 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 113 | 146 | |||
St. Martin.in.the.Fields | 12,711 | 169 | 206 | 13.3 | 16.3 | 1.19 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 33 | 178 | ||
Strand | 23,552 | 570 | 501 | 24.3 | 21.3 | 2.06 | 48 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 79 | 161 | ||
Holborn | 30,49? | 781 | 703 | 25.7 | 23.1 | 2.79 | 85 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 5 | 35 | 84 | 184 | |||
Clerkenwell | 66,162 | 2,092 | 1,459 | 31.7 | 22.1 | 3.61 | 238 | 1 | 49 | 14 | 48 | 49 | 11 | 66 | 155 | 184 | ||
St. Luke | 41,279 | 1,860 | 1,056 | 45.2 | 25.7 | 3.82 | 157 | 40 | 13 | 21 | 28 | 4 | 51 | 128 | 149 | |||
London, City | 30,228 | 478 | 642 | 15.9 | 21.3 | 1.66 | 50 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 57 | 130 | ||
Shoreditch | 121,883 | 4,314 | 2,627 | 35.5 | 21.6 | 4.07 | 496 | 1 | 116 | 29 | 78 | 63 | 20 | 189 | 247 | 183 | ||
Bethnal Green | 129,09« | 4,818 | 2,761 | 37.4 | 21.4 | 3.41. | 439 | 114 | 25 | 84 | 57 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 140 | 255 | 171 | |
Whitechapel | 79,724 | 3,150 | 1,623 | 39.6 | 20.4 | 2.16 | 171 | 45 | 15 | 34 | 16 | 8 | 53 | 200 | 148 | |||
St. George.in.the.East | 47,917 | 2,029 | 1,262 | 42.5 | 26.4 | 4.27 | 204 | 68 | 14 | 28 | 24 | 10 | 60 | 132 | 197 | |||
Limehouse | 58 508 | 1,997 | 1,462 | 34.2 | 25.1 | 3.54 | 206 | 63 | 12 | 29 | 37 | 4 | 61 | 149 | 193 | |||
Mile End Old Town | 111,883 | 4,257 | 2,085 | 38.2 | 18.7 | 2.97 | 330 | 77 | 12 | 62 | 58 | 23 | 98 | 156 | 149 | |||
Poplar | 169,811 | 5,849 | 3,353 | 34.5 | 19.8 | 3.07 | 519 | 83 | 28 | 120 | 83 | 30 | 175 | 319 | 170 | |||
St. Saviour, Southwark | 24,919 | 769 | 611 | 30.9 | 24.6 | 3.66 | 91 | 32 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 26 | 80 | 195 | |||
St. George, Southwark | 60,388 | 2,114 | 1,426 | 35.1 | 23.7 | 4.35 | 262 | 1 | 67 | 14 | 28 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 109 | 171 | 189 | |
N ewington | 122,191 | 4,248 | 2,588 | 34.9 | 21.2 | 3.59 | 439 | 85 | 33 | 65 | 82 | 9 | 165 | 269 | 177 | |||
St. Olave, Southwark | 11,480 | 434 | 253 | 37.9 | 22.1 | 2.96 | 34 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 15 | 33 | 154 | |||
Bermondsey | 85,629 | 3,176 | 1,883 | 37.2 | 22.1 | 4.35 | 371 | 76 | 34 | 62 | 62 | 13 | 124 | 174 | 190 | |||
Rotherhithe | 40,643 | 1.C58 | 766 | 31.0 | 18.9 | 3.26 | 132 | 21 | 22 | 21 | 17 | 2 | 49 | 64 | 174 | |||
Lambeth | 300,048 | 9,388 | 5,247 | 31.4 | 17.5 | 2.65 | 791 | 140 | 42 | 144 | 144 | 26 | 295 | 500 | 151 | |||
Battersea | 168,877 | 5,266 | 2.734 | 31.3 | 16.2 | 2.79 | 470 | 79 | 47 | 106 | 79 | 19 | 140 | 251 | 162 | |||
Wandsworth | 195,612 | 5,042 | 2,606 | 25.8 | 13.4 | 1.91 | 370 | 27 | 29 | 111 | 42 | 16 | 1 | 144 | 222 | 135 | ||
Camberwell | 257,575 | 7,483 | 4,276 | 29.1 | 16.6 | 2.91 | 750 | 5 | 141 | 32 | 170 | 111 | 31 | 260 | 386 | 159 | ||
Greenwich | 178,367 | 5,563 | 3,058 | 31.3 | 17.2 | 2.27 | 405 | 2 | 35 | 32 | 70 | 57 | 29 | 180 | 263 | 157 | ||
Lee | 39,215 | 881 | 516 | 22.5 | 13.2 | 1.43 | 56 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 22 | 43 | 135 | |||
Lewisham | 86,152 | 2,186 | 1,099 | 25.4 | 12.8 | 1.71 | 147 | 17 | 9 | 36 | 19 | 7 | 59 | 81 | 129 | |||
Woolwich | 41,409 | 1,307 | 735 | 31.7 | 17.8 | 2.54 | 105 | 2 | 8 | 33 | 8 | 4 | 50 | 79 | 158 | |||