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Southwark 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 8.
| Year. | Population estimated to Middle of each Year. | Births. | Total Deaths registered in the District. | Total Deaths in Public Institu- tions in the District. | Deaths of Non-residents regis- tered in Public Institutions in the District. | Deaths of Residents registered in Public Institutions beyond the District. | Nett Deaths at all Age? belonging to the District. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number. | Bate* | Under 1 Year of Age. | At all Ages. | ||||||||||
| Number. | Rate per 1000 Births registered. | Number. | Rate* | Number. | Rate* | ||||||||
| 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. | 9. | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |
| 1910 | 211,832 | 5627 | 27.8 | 722 | 128 | 2866 | 13.5 | 1114 | 701 | 1218 | 3360 | 15.9 | |
| 1911 | 191,595 | 5692 | 29.6 | 902 | 167 | 3098 | 16.2 | 1228 | 829 | 1263 | 3532 | 18.4 | |
| 1912 | 190,017 | 5589 | 29.4 | 610 | 109 | 2607 | 13.7 | 1047 | 696 | 1279 | 3190 | 16.8 | |
| 1913 | 188,487 | 5931 | 31.5 | 721 | 121 | 2777 | 14.7 | 1078 | 709 | 1345 | 3371 | 17.9 | |
| 1914 | 188,321 | 5604 | 29.7 | 700 | 125 | 2725 | 14.5 | 1160 | 706 | 1364 | 3350 | 17.8 | |
| 1915 | 179,424 | 5247 | 29.2 | 729 | 138 | 3093 | 17.2 | 1276 | 667 | 1333 | 3727 | 20.8 | |
| 1916 | 177,166 | 4896 | 27.6 | 478 | 104 | 2633 | 14.8 | 1202 | 604 | 1050 | 3039 | 17.1 | |
| 1917 | 167,936 | 4135 | 24.6 | 461 | 122 | 2528 | 15.0 | 1163 | 565 | 1154 | 3087 | 18.3 | |
| 1918 | 161,968 | 3450 | 21.3 | 390 | 127 | 3302 | 20.4 | 1471 | 662 | 1117 | 3757 | 23.2 | |
| 1919 | 179,971 | 4176 | 23.2 | 358 | 95 | 2423 | 13.4 | 1108 | 650 | 955 | 2728 | 15.1 | |
| Averages for years 1910-1919 | 183,671 | 5034 | 28.3 | 607 | 123 | 2805 | 15.3 | 1184 | 678 | 1207 | 3314 | 18.1 | |
| 1920 | 187,142 | 5954 | 31.8 | 466 | 86 | 2085 | 11.1 | 881 | 659 | 1259 | 2685 | 14.4 | |
| *Rates in Columns 4, 8 and 13 calculated per 1000 of estimated population. | |||||||||||||
| Area of District in Acres (exclusive of area covered by water) | 1131.5 | ||||||||||||
| Total population at all ages | *191,962 | *At Census of 1911 | |||||||||||
| Number of inhabited houses | 20,878 | ||||||||||||
| Average number of persons per house | 9.8) | ||||||||||||
| I. | Guy's Hospital, Evelina Hospital, Bethlem Hospital, Royal Eye Hospital, Catholic Nursing Home, 60, Lambeth Road. | ||||||||||||
| Institutions within the District receiving sick and infirm persons from outside the District. | |||||||||||||
| II. | See page 8 (Outlying deaths, with localities) | ||||||||||||
| Institutions outside the District receiving sick and infirm persons from the District. | |||||||||||||
| III. | Newington Institution, St. George's Insti tution, Christchurch Institution. | ||||||||||||
| Other Institutions, the deaths in which have been distributed among the several localities in the District. | |||||||||||||