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 Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE XIII.
Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1902. | Notifications. Annual rate per 1000 persons living. | Zymotic Deaths. Annual rate per 1000 persons living. | From all Causes Death-rate per 1000 living. | Deaths of Infants under one year to 1000 births. |
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LONDON | 4,579,110 | 9.9 | 2.23 | 17.7 | 14.1 |
Paddington | 145,107 | 6.4 | 1.74 | 14.6 | 133 |
Kensington | 177,605 | 5.3 | 1.49 | 15.3 | 149 |
Hammersmith | 114,210 | 7.0 | 1.90 | 16.3 | 143 |
Fulham | 143,102 | 8.8 | 3.13 | 17.1 | 148 |
Chelsea | 74,018 | 6.4 | 2.06 | 18.0 | 145 |
City of Westminster | 180,800 | 6.9 | 1.28 | 16.1 | 136 |
St. Marylebone | 132,145 | 8.4 | 1.98 | 18.3 | 107 |
Hampstead | 83,743 | 5.7 | 0.81 | 10.8 | 87 |
St. Pancras | 235,521 | 12.0 | 2.46 | 18.6 | 147 |
Islington | 337,270 | 9.4 | 1.80 | 16.4 | 133 |
Stoke Newington | 51,700 | 8.1 | 1.17 | 13.4 | 115 |
Hackney | 221,926 | 11.4 | 1.98 | 15.0 | 119 |
Holliorn | 58,535 | 11.3 | 2.44 | 21.3 | 129 |
Finsbury | 100,487 | 10.7 | 3.18 | 22.9 | 154 |
City of London | 25,598 | 10.3 | 1.38 | 20.4 | 1.26 |
Shoreditch | 118,004 | 10.5 | 3 53 | 20.7 | 174 |
Bethnal Green | 129,865 | 13.4 | 2.56 | 20.8 | 155 |
Stepney | 300,551 | 13.1 | 3.31 | 20.6 | 147 |
Poplar | 169,084 | 17.3 | 2.75 | 19.6 | 153 |
Southwark | 206,825 | 13.0 | 3.10 | 21.4 | 166 |
Bermondsey | 130,218 | 10.1 | 3.06 | 20.8 | 155 |
Lambeth | 305,102 | 9.0 | 1.86 | 17.4 | 127 |
Battersea | 171,401 | 9.7 | 1.98 | 15.0 | 127 |
Wandsworth | 241,810 | 9.7 | 1 62 | 13.5 | 127 |
Camberwell | 262.775 | 10.9 | 2.23 | 16.3 | 138 |
Deptford | 111.577 | 11.4 | 2.44 | 16.5 | 138 |
Greenwich | 98.013 | 9.5 | 1.59 | 15.4 | 138 |
Lewisham | 132.432 | 10.0 | 1.79 | 13 6 | 125 |
Woolwich | 119,556 | 7.7 | 1.93 | 15.1 | 125 |
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