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 St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Table No. 5. —Showing the Birth rates, Death rates, and Infantile Mortality rates of England and Wales and certain of
the large Towns, and of London and the Metropolitan Boroughs for 1913.
Population as Estimated by the Registrar-General in the middle of 1913. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality. | Population as Estimated by the Registrar-General in the middle of 1913. | Births. | Death Bate. (Crude) | Infantile Mortality. | ||
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England and Wales | 36,919,839 | 23.9 | 13.4 | 109 | 5,518,191 | 24.5 | 14.02 | 105 | |
Birmingham | 859,644 | 27.4 | 14.6 | 129 | west. | ||||
Liverpool | 756,553 | 29.9 | 18.0 | 131 | Paddington | 142,210 | 21.1 | 13.4 | 100 |
Manchester | 730,976 | 26.3 | 15.3 | 127 | Kensington Hammersmith | 171,284 123,745 | 19.3 21.2 | 13.7 13.9 | 112 103 |
Sheffield | 471,662 | 28.3 | 15.7 | 128 | Fulham | 157,117 | 26.9 | 12.5 | 96 |
Leeds | 457,295 | 23.6 | 15.3 | 133 | Chelsea | 64,598 | 19.1 | 13.9 | 90 |
Bristol | 361,362 | 22.5 | 12.6 | 96 | City of Westminster | 154,810 | 14.2 | 12.7 | 96 |
West Ham | 294,223 | 30.9 | 14.5 | 107 | north. | ||||
Bradford | 290.540 | 19.6 | 14.9 | 127 | St. Marylebone | 114,532 | 19.1 | 14.0 | 91 |
Hull | 287,032 | 28.0 | 14.7 | 128 | Hampstead | 86,346 | 15.1 | ||
St. Pancras | 214,330 | 25.3 | |||||||
Mewcastle-on-Tyne | 271,295 | 27.1 | 15.0 | 121 | Islington | 325,585 | 25.3 | 15.1 | |
Nottingham | 264,735 | 22.8 | 11.1 | 130 | Stoke Newington | 50,518 | 22.3 | 13.6 | S2 |
Portsmouth | 241,256 | 24.6 | 12.2 | 90 | Hackney | 223,353 | 24.3 | 13.4 | 99 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 239,284 | 31.5 | 18.7 | 169 | central. | ||||
Salford | 233,849 | 26.8 | 15.7 | 136 | Holborn | 46,949 | 16.7 | 14.6 | 101 |
Leicester | 230,970 | 21.8 | 13.2 | 119 | Finsbury | 84,679 | 29.6 | 18.3 | 138 |
Cardiff | 186,554 | 26.0 | 13.3 | 115 | City of London | 17,016 | 9.2 | 15.2 | 96 |
Bolton | 183,879 | 21.6 | 15.6 | 144 | east. Shoreditch | 109,654 | 31.5 | 18.6 | 155 |
Croydon | 178,094 | 22.0 | 11.4 | 94 | Bethnal Green | 127,824 | 30.8 | 15.4 | 118 |
Willesden | 163,655 | 23.9 | 10.0 | 83 | Stepney | 275,300 | 29.3 | 14.9 | 1)2 |
Rhondda | 162,137 | 33.3 | 14.0 | 139 | Poplar | 160,913 | 32.0 | 16.3 | 112 |
Sunderland | 152,377 | 30.9 | 17.8 | 134 | south. | ||||
Oldham | 149,936 | 23.2 | 16.8 | 139 | Southwark | 188,487 | 31.0 | 17.4 | 115 |
Tottenham | 145,736 | 25.7 | 10.9 | 89 | Bermondsey | 124,739 | 30.7 | 17.9 | 132 |
Lembeth | 297,139 | 23.9 | 14.3 | 102 | |||||
East Ham | 142,467 | 25.0 | 10.0 | 64 | Batersea | 167,464 | 24.9 | 13.9 | 111 |
Birkenhead | 135,557 | 28.9 | 14.3 | 115 | Wandsworth | 330,395 | 20.4 | 10.6 | 88 |
Blackburn | 333,971 | 21.8 | 15.5 | 117 | Camberwell | 261,805 | 25.1 | 13.7 | 106 |
Brighton | 133,096 | 18.0 | 13.3 | 117 | Deptford | 109,280 | 27.9 | 15.3 | 112 |
Walthamstow | 131,636 | 24.0 | 9.8 | 80 | Greenwich | 96,015 | 26.0 | 14.2 | 103 |
Leyton | 130,922 | 22.4 | 10.0 | 83 | Lewisham | 168,822 | 20.5 | 10.6 | 78 |
Derby | 125,462 | 23.7 | 12.4 | 100 | Woolwich | 122,382 | 23.3 | 12.6 | 79 |