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. (1932).
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 | 4,357,800 | 14.3 | 12.3 | 67 |
West Districts. Paddington | 143,600 | 13.76 | 13.26 | 107 |
Kensington | 183,500 | 12.9 | 13.6 | 98 |
Hammersmith | 133,700 | 14.5 | 12.8 | 66 |
Fulham | 149,600 | 14.28 | 12.35 | 58 |
Chelsea | 59,430 | 11.9 | 12.9 | 52 |
City of Westminster | 126,400 | 9.1 | 12.3 | 65.9 |
North Districts. St. Marylebone | 96,430 | 10.97 | 12.4 | 87.2 |
Hampstead | 90,130 | 10.9 | 11.6 | 54 |
St. Pancras | 194,000 | 13.8 | 13.1 | 69 |
Islington | 324,600 | 15.25 | 12.36 | 68 |
Stoke Newington | 51,680 | 15.0 | 12.9 | 53 |
Hackney | 214,200 | 14.5 | 11.5 | 53.9 |
Central Districts. Holborn | 36,440 | 9.57 | 14.19 | 71.63 |
Finsbury | 69,030 | 16.0 | 13.4 | 81 |
City of London | 9,990 | 6.5 | 12.8 | 46 |
East Districts. Shoreditch | 95,800 | 17.5 | 12.3 | 80 |
Bethnal Green | 106,300 | 15.4 | 12.0 | 69 |
Stepney | 223,000 | 16.7 | 12.3 | 61.6 |
Poplar | 152,400 | 17.2 | 12.1 | 63 |
South Districts. Southwark | 168,900 | 16.2 | 13.1 | 72 |
Bermondsey | 110,100 | 16.6 | 12.0 | 56 |
Lambeth | 292,300 | 14.7 | 12.5 | 56 |
Battersea | 157,000 | 14.8 | 12.1 | 57.8 |
Wandsworth | 353,300 | 11.86 | 11.56 | 62 |
Camberwell | 248,000 | 14.6 | 12.0 | 65 |
Deptford | 105,100 | 15.9 | 12.2 | 65 |
Greenwich | 99,590 | 14.7 | 11.8 | 80 |
Lewisham | 221,500 | 12.7 | 10.2 | 54 |
Woolwich | 146,900 | 14.0 | 11.1 | 60 |
Note.—The information relating to London supplied by the Registrar-General
and that for individual Boroughs by the Medical Officers of Health.