Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated resident population (mid-1938) | Live births, annual rate per 1,000 popula-tion. | Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Deaths of infants under one year to 1,000 births. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
LONDON | 4,062,800 | 13.4 | 11.4 | 56 | |
Paddington | 137,400 | 13.74 | 11.33 | 11.21 | 66 |
Kensington | 174,100 | 12.8 | 11.7 | 10.9 | 78 |
Hammersmith | 125,100 | 15.5 | 11.3 | 11.6 | 61 |
Fulham | 137,700 | 14.2 | 11.6 | 11.7 | 51 |
Chelsea | 56,050 | 10.2 | 13.5 | 11.5 | 80 |
City of Westminster | 124,400 | 8.3 | 10.4 | 10.7 | 54.9 |
St. Marylebone | 90,680 | 8.84 | 11.12 | 11.0 | 60 |
Hampstead | 90,480 | 11.7 | 11.4 | 10.7 | 57 |
St. Pancras | 179,400 | 13.5 | 11.5 | 11.7 | 64 |
Islington | 292,300 | 15.32 | 11.9 | 12.02 | 65 |
Stoke Newington | 50,480 | 13.8 | 11.0 | 10.5 | 43.2 |
Hackney | 205,200 | 13.4 | 10.7 | 11.2 | 56.46 |
Holborn | 34,350 | 7.28 | 10.51 | 11.25 | 84 |
Finsbury | 56,960 | 13.0 | 12.9 | 14.1 | 73 |
City of London | 8,780 | 6.6 | 10.7 | 11.8 | 51.8 |
Shoreditch | 80,360 | 14.7 | 11.4 | 12.5 | 64 |
Bethnal Green | 92,910 | 14.2 | 11.3 | 12.8 | 59.3 |
Stepney | 200,500 | 13.06 | 11.05 | 12.92 | 60.7 |
Poplar | 134,400 | 14.9 | 11.4 | 12.7 | 60 |
Southwark | 145,300 | 14 0 | 12 . 5 | 13.4 | 57 |
Bermondsey | 97,420 | 14.8 | 11.0 | 12.54 | 45 |
Lambeth | 272,800 | 14.09 | 11.9 | 11.7 | 51 |
141,700 | 14.92 | 11.82 | 11.70 | 53.45 | |
Wandsworth | 340,100 | 11.92 | 11.17 | 10.38 | 46 |
Camberwell | 222,400 | 13.97 | 12.27 | 12.27 | 61 |
Deptford | 95,460 | 14.4 | 11.8 | 12.3 | 54 |
Greenwich | 95,770 | 13.64 | 10.89 | 111 | 42 |
Lewisham | 229,000 | 13.9 | 10.49 | 10.5 | 47 |
Woolwich | 150,900 | 13.6 | 10.4 | 11.0 | 50 |
Note.— The information relating to London supplied by the RegistrarGeneral
and that for individual Boroughs by the Medical Officers of Health.