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 Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 16. London and the Metropolitan Boroughs. Births, Deaths, and Infantile Mortality.
Boroughs. | Estimated Population, 1922. | Births. | Deaths from | Death rate per 1,000 births infants under 1 year. | ||||||||
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All Causes. | Enteric Fever. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping-cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhæa and Enteritis (under 2 years). | Influenza. | ||||
LONDON | 4,534230 | 91,662 | 50,743 | 39 | 1 | 367 | 112 | 425 | 602 | 936 | 752 | 60 |
West. | ||||||||||||
Paddington | 145,300 | 2,617 | 1,666 | 1 | ... | 3 | 2 | 22 | 14 | 22 | 30 | 68 |
Kensington | 179,100 | 3,121 | 2,141 | 2 | ... | 15 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 47 | 47 | 71 |
Hammersmith | 134,400 | 2,701 | 1,445 | 2 | ... | 6 | 3 | 10 | 20 | 25 | 19 | 63 |
Fulham | 159,500 | 3,123 | 1,669 | ... | ... | 23 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 63 |
Chelsea | 03,920 | 1,015 | 770 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 55 |
City of Westminster | 139,390 | 1,752 | 1,460 | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 7 | 5 | 6 | 24 | 46 |
North. | ||||||||||||
St. Marylebone | 105,200 | 1,657 | 1,207 | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 20 | 2 | 15 | 23 | 68 |
Hampstead | 86,920 | 1.238 | 895 | 1 | ... | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 42 |
St. Pancras | 212,500 | 4,367 | 2,544 | 3 | ... | 5 | 3 | 28 | 21 | 51 | 22 | 63 |
Islington | 333,900 | 7,117 | 3,853 | ... | ... | 16 | 13 | 38 | 21 | 102 | 63 | 66 |
Stoke Newington | 52,620 | 960 | 556 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 48 |
Hackney | 225,400 | 4,433 | 2,374 | 4 | ... | 16 | 6 | 16 | 30 | 30 | 53 | 58 |
Central. | ||||||||||||
Holborn | 42,850 | 593 | 516 | ... | ... | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 76 |
Finsbury | 76,840 | 1,845 | 1,006 | ... | ... | 11 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 29 | 13 | 60 |
City of London | 13,363 | 111 | 153 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 81 |
East. | ||||||||||||
Shoreditch | 105.800 | 2,864 | 1,361 | 1 | ... | 21 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 34 | 14 | 80 |
Bethnal Green | 118,400 | 2,880 | 1,335 | ... | ... | 32 | 5 | 21 | 20 | 38 | 16 | 69 |
Stepney | 252,170 | 5,913 | 2.929 | ... | ... | 65 | 7 | 18 | 30 | 87 | 39 | 63 |
Poplar | 165,700 | 4,256 | 1,852 | 3 | ... | 22 | 4 | 8 | 29 | 35 | 24 | 59 |
South. | ||||||||||||
Southwark | 187,220 | 4,558 | 2,391 | 2 | ... | 13 | 4 | 27 | 49 | 54 | 25 | 68 |
Bermondsey | 121,100 | 3,020 | 1,456 | 2 | ... | 12 | 3 | 11 | 31 | 50 | 13 | 73 |
Lambeth | 307,000 | 6,242 | 3,498 | 1 | ... | 22 | 12 | 14 | 48 | 59 | 41 | 58 |
Battersea | 169,200 | 3,434 | 1,808 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 6 | 16 | 33 | 27 | 30 | 48 |
Wandsworth | 334,900 | 5,474 | 3,375 | 1 | ... | 11 | 2 | 30 | 26 | 45 | 56 | 52 |
Camberwell | 270,300 | 5,657 | 2,960 | 3 | ... | 35 | 6 | 32 | 71 | 51 | 39 | 56 |
Deptford | 114,100 | 2,428 | 1,239 | 2 | ... | 8 | 2 | 13 | 32 | 19 | 20 | 58 |
Greenwich | 102,000 | 2,119 | 1,102 | 6 | ... | 2 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 19 | 15 | 62 |
Lewisham | 176.600 | 3,297 | 1,813 | 1 | ... | 2 | 7 | 6 | 26 | 27 | 30 | 45 |
Woolwich | 138,250 | 2,867 | 1,368 | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 43 |