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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 1914

[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 1914.Births.Deaths.Birth Rate.Death Rate.Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age.
Number.Rate per 1000 Births.
County of London45180211096676499424 314411395104
West.
Paddington1421932965184620.913.028195
Kensington1712343210224218.813. 130294
Hammersmith1238532935171723.813. 927594
Fulham1573034154210126. 513.4468113
Chelsea64511129987020. 213. 58767
City of Westminster1545442155193614. 012. 617380
North.
St. Marylebone1143552132157718.713.820898
Hampstead86388127389314. 810. 410280
St. Pancras2141335223333424.515.648192
Islington3254968171492325.215. 2857105
Stoke Newington50511104566120.713.18178
Hackney2233935460309924. 513. 950292
Central.
Holborn4683276475416.416.16990
Finsbury845212541165230.119. 6312123
City of London1783118123910.213.41794
East.
Shoreditch1095693511207532. 119. 0496141
Bethnal Green1278073786203429.716. 0518137
Stepney2750818058453929.416.5997124
Poplar1608395073274331. 617.1590116
South.
South wark1883215604335029. 817.8693124
Bermondsey1246833849216531. 017. 4482125
Lambeth2970947022431923.714.6728104
Battersea1674514803222025.813. 340293
Wandsworth3313216675361720 .210 .959189
Camberwell2618286580353925. 213. 765399
Deptford1092693115157228. 614.430899
Greenwich960182408141225.114.723598
Lewisham1692113336183619.810.924774
Woolwich1224312839167923.313. 824085

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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.