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 V. (1931).
Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population to the middle of year. | Live Births. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Death-rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths of Infants under one year to 1,000 births. |
---|---|---|---|---|
LONDON | 4,374,300 | 15.0 | 12.4 | 65 |
Paddington | 140,300 | 14.79 | 13.05 | 87 |
Kensington | 174,800 | 14.2 | 14.0 | 76 |
Hammersmith | 135,100 | 15.3 | 12.2 | 68 |
Fulham | 151,200 | 15.08 | 12.8 | 67 |
Chelsea | 57,220 | 12.8 | 14.1 | 42 |
City of Westminster | 115,600 | 10.17 | 13.9 | 75.1 |
St. Marylebone | 97,620 | 11.4 | 12.4 | 65 |
Hampstead | 87.740 | 11.2 | 11.7 | 60 |
St. Pancras | 195,600 | 15.1 | 13.3 | 68 |
Islington | 324,600 | 16.3 | 12.6 | 61 |
Stoke Newington | 51,380 | 15.2 | 12.7 | 53.9 |
Hackney | 217,000 | 15.5 | 11.4 | 60 |
Holborn | 34,470 | 10.21 | 14.27 | 74 |
Finsbury | 70,120 | 18.0 | 14.02 | 62 |
City of London | 10,808 | 5.6 | 12.5 | 81 |
Shoreditch | 98,260 | 17.1 | 12.5 | 74.2 |
Bethnal Green | 109,200 | 16.8 | 12.5 | 87.7 |
Stepney | 225,800 | 17.5 | 13.1 | 78 |
Poplar | 156,300 | 17.5 | 12.4 | 77 |
Southwark | 172,900 | 16.9 | 14.0 | 61 |
Bermondsey | 112,410 | 17.4 | 12.5 | 57 |
Lambeth | 295,900 | 15.28 | 12.66 | 60.35 |
Battersea | 159,800 | 15.5 | 12.l | 57.3 |
Wandsworth | 353,200 | 12.27 | 11.30 | 59 |
Camberwell | 252,100 | 14.7 | 11.9 | 56 |
Deptford | 107,200 | 16.3 | 12.0 | 53 |
Greenwich | 100,640 | 14.96 | 11.41 | 64 |
Lewisham | 220,800 | 14.1 | 10 .2 | 49 |
Woolwich | 142,600 | 15.1 | 11.-6 | 59 |
Note.—The information relating to London supplied by the Registrar-General
and that for individual Boroughs by the Medical Officers of Health.