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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lewisham 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]

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Table: Table showingPopulation, BirthandDeathRates, and Infant Mortality, in theMetropolitan Boroughsand the County of London.

Table showingPopulation, BirthandDeathRates, and Infant Mortality, in theMetropolitan Boroughsand the County of London.

Boroughs.Population estimated to the middle of 1913.Births.Deaths.Birth Rate.Death Rate.Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age.
Number.Rate per 1000 Births.
County of London45181911126376503024.514.211869105
West.
Paddington1422103055194121.113.4305100
Kensington1712843357237719.313.6375112
Hammersmith1237453043175424.213.8314103
Fulham1571174302199226.912.941496
Chelsea64598125791119.113.211390
City of Westminster1548102227199214.213.321396
North.
St. Marylebone1145322221163319.114.320291
Hampstend86346132693815.111.39773
St. Pancras2143305512332125.315.250892
Islington3255858357500925.314.8894107
Stoke Newington50518114469822.312.99482
Hackney2233535522303724.313.554999
Central.
Holborn4694979869816.714.783104
Finsbury846792547157629.618.1352138
City of London179161672769.215.81696
East.
Shoreditch1096543513206831.519.2546155
Bethnal Green1278243998200630.816.1470118
Stepney2753008187417229.315.6916112
Poplar1609135230266832.016.1586112
South.
Southwark1884875936334331.017.6682115
Bermondsey1247393896226630.717.8513132
Lambeth2971397233431423.914.0736102
Battersea1674644239236124.914.0469111
Wandsworth3303956840355020.410.660388
Camberwell2618056671365325.113.6708106
Deptford1092803103170427.915.2347112
Greenwich960152541138526.014.0262103
Lewisham1688223502184120.310.426976
Woolwich1223822893157323.313.022979

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Note.—The figures in this table are extracted from the Registrar General's
Annual Summary. The death-rates appearing herein are standardised in order
to make correction for differences of age and sex constitution of the several
populations in 1911 as compared with that of England and Wales in 1901.