Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Limehouse District (comprising the Parishes of Limehouse, Shadwell, and Wapping, and the Hamlet of Ratcliff) for the year 1899
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TABLE II.
Table shewing the Annual Birth and Death Rates, Death Rates of Children in a Thousand Deaths for the Year 1899, and 10 Years preceding.
In the Year. | Birth Rate per 1,000 of the Population. | Corrected Death Rate per 1,000 of the Population. | Deaths of Children under 1 year; per 1,000 of Registered Births. | Deaths of Children under 1 year; per 1,000 of Total Deaths. | Deaths of Children under 5 years; per 1,000 of Total Deaths. |
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1898 | 32.5 | 23.7 | 208 | 280 | 438 |
1897 | 34.1 | 25.1 | 193 | 264 | 420 |
1896 | 34.6 | 23.7 | 182 | 265 | 478 |
1895 | 35.3 | 27.3 | 222 | 289 | 466 |
1894 | 33.1 | 24.2 | 161 | 234 | 441 |
1893 | 33.9 | 27.7 | 201 | 247 | 400 |
1892 | 33.6 | 25.5 | 188 | 249 | 459 |
1891 | 34.6 | 26.0 | 174 | 232 | 376 |
1890 | 30.8 | 26.8 | 209 | 240 | 445 |
1889 | 35.0 | 22.7 | 159 | 246 | 427 |
Average of 10 years, 1889-98. | 33.7 | 25.7 | 189 | 254 | 435 |