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. (1921).
Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population to the middle of 1921. | 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. |
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LONDON | 4,514,405 | . | 22.3 | ? | 12.4 | 80 |
Paddington | 145,600 | . | 19.6 | 0.95 | 12.07 | 92 |
Kensington | 175,686 | . | 18.7 | 1.02 | 13.8 | 110 |
Hammersmith | 131,500 | . | 21.1 | 0.98 | 12.7 | 88 |
Fulham | 159,400 | . | 22.2 | — | 11.8 | 83 |
Chelsea | 64,290 | . | 16.6 | 0.4 | 13.5 | 78 |
City of Westminster | 141,317 | . | 13.6 | 0.53 | 11.5 | 80 |
St. Marylebone | 105,200 | . | 18.4 | 0.57 | 12.8 | 66 |
Hampstead | 86,890 | . | 15.4 | 0.59 | 11.2 | 88 |
St. Paneras | 212,900 | . | 22.4 | 1.04 | 13.0 | 76 |
Islington | 333,000 | . | 23.6 | 0.86 | 13.1 | 81 |
Stoke Newington | 52,590 | . | 20.4 | ? | 11.5 | 53 |
Hackney | 224,200 | . | 22.6 | 0.7 | 11.5 | 64 |
Holborn | 43,520 | . | 14.8 | 0.42 | 12.8 | 79 |
Finsbury | 76,690 | . | 25.9 | 1.4 | 14.8 | 93 |
City of London | 13,706 | . | 9.4 | 0.22 | 11.5 | 93 |
Shored itch . .. | 105,200 | . | 28.5 | 1.9 | 14.4 | 114 |
Bethnal Green | 118,300 | . | 25.4 | 1.75 | 12.9 | 95 |
Stepney | 249,738 | . | 24.7 | 1.42 | 12.94 | 89 |
Poplar | 164,100 | . | 27.28 | 1.59 | 12.73 | 83 |
Southwark | 184,388 | . | 27.3 | 1.23 | 14.3 | 90 |
Bermondsey | 120,500 | . | 26.1 | 1.55 | 13.74 | 94 |
Lambeth | 305,700 | . | 29.4 | 0.7 | 11.9 | 56 |
Battersea | 169,200 | . | 22.12 | 1.09 | 12.17 | 73 |
Wandsworth | 328,000 | . | 18.80 | 0.70 | 10.83 | 67 |
Camberwell | 269,600 | . | 23.3 | ? | 11.0 | 74 |
Deptford | 113,500 | . | 23.5 | 0 .95 | 12.2 | 88 |
Greenwich | 100,493 | . | 22.7 | 0.76 | 12.41 | 76 |
Lewisham | 175,800 | . | 19.4 | 0.29 | 10.47 | 54 |
Woolwich | 136,307 | . | 23.5 | 1.05 | 11.7 | 62 |