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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Southwark 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 2. Number of Births belonging to each Ward, with the Birth-rates, also the Infantile Mortality and Zymotic Rate in the several wards for 1923.

TABLE 2. Number of Births belonging to each Ward, with the Birth-rates, also the Infantile Mortality and Zymotic Rate in the several wards for 1923.

WARD.Births.Infantile Mortality.Zymotic Rates in the Wards.
Males.Females.Total.Birth-rate.Cerebro Spinal Fever.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Enteric Fever.Diarrhæa.Phthisis.Influenza.Chioken Pox.E cephalitis Lethargica
St. Mary29622852422.878_0.04_0.220.090.311.740.09
St. Paul21419440821.0560.05——0.260.05—0.211.290.05__
St. Peter20117437521.548—0.06—0.340.06——0.80—_0.06
St. John27723651326.672—0.050.050.360.21—0.520.990.21_0.05
Trinity24120844927.4690.120.060.060.240.24—0.611.160.30——
All Saints28325153424.760—0.05—0.280.14—0.141.060.05——
St. Michael26325952225.290—0.10—0.150.19—0.291.450.240.050.05
St. Jude16817334124.567—0.22—0.290.14—0.431.22__0.07
St. George25522147626.376—0.17—_0.440.330.110.611.050.39—0.06
Christchurch.1189921725.8650.12—0.06———0.481.43———
St. Saviour1069319921.750——0.120.11———1.42——0.11
Borough2,4222,1364,55824.3680.020.070.020.260.14—0.331.230.13—0.03