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 XVII. (1920).
Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population to the middle of 1919. | Notifications. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Births. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Zymotic Deaths. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Death-rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths of Infants under one year to 1,000 births. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LONDON | 4,531,971 | . | 26.5 | 0.91 | 12.4 | 75 |
Paddington | 149,673 | . | 22.7 | . | 11.4 | 78 |
Kensington | 164,177 | . | 24.3 | 0.9 | 13.4 | 81 |
Hammersmith | 136,200 | . | 24.3 | 0.8 | 11.4 | 66 |
Fulham | 158,621 | . | 27.3 | 0.8 | 11.5 | 74 |
Chelsea | 68,500 | . | 20.3 | 0.04 | 11.3 | 52 |
City of Westminster | 132,615 | . | 16.1 | 0.4 | 11.8 | 73 |
St. Marylebone | 101,856 | . | 21.5 | 0.5 | 12.7 | 65 |
Hampstead | 91,519 | 17.1 | 0.2 | 9.4 | 48 | |
St. Pancras | 228,178 | . | 25.4 | 0.9 | 12.4 | 73 |
Islington | 335,907 | 28.1 | 1.0 | 13.3 | 72 | |
Stoke Newington | 52,984 | . | 23.1 | 0.7 | 12.4 | 80 |
Hackney | 225,372 | 26.6 | 1.0 | 12.7 | 80 | |
Holborn | 39,676 | . | 20.8 | 0.6 | 15.2 | 65 |
Finsbury | 78,291 | . | 32.4 | 0.9 | 14.7 | 74 |
City of London | 12,200 | . | 14.9 | 0.4 | 15.6 | 60 |
Shoreditch | 101,000 | 36.9 | 1.4 | 15.6 | 91 | |
Bethnal Green | 114,471 | . | 33.7 | 1.9 | 14.9 | 94 |
Stepney | 270,000 | 27.2 | 0.9 | 12.8 | 90 | |
Poplar | 159,766 | . | 34.1 | 1.3 | 14.7 | 81 |
Southwark | 187,142 | 31.8 | . | 14.4 | 86 | |
Bermondsey | 129,189 | 31..2 | 1.3 | 12.7 | 83 | |
Lambeth | 293,572 | 27.5 | 0.9 | 12.9 | 63 | |
Battersea | 165,664 | 28.1 | 1.1 | 12.5 | 82 | |
Wandsworth | 342,808 | 31.0 | 0.6 | 10.3 | 64 | |
Camberwell | . | . | . | |||
Deptford | 115,636 | 28.3 | 0.8 | 12.2 | 79 | |
Greenwich | 104,453 | 24.6 | 0.9 | 11.7 | 75 | |
Lewisham | 174,438 | 22.8 | 0.4 | 10.7 | 62 | |
Woolwich | 141,666 | 24.7 | 0.5 | 10.5 | 61 |
* This figure was furnished by the Lancet, the remainder of the rates for
London being supplied by the Registrar-General.