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 N o . 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 1914.
Population as Estimated by the Registrar. General in the middle of 1914. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality. | Population as Estimated by the Registrar. General in the middle of 1914. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. (Crude). | Infantile Mortality. | ||
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Birmingham | 860,591 | 27.0 | 15.0 | 122 | west. | ||||
Liverpool | 763,926 | 80.3 | 19.4 | 139 | Paddington Kensington | 142,19 3 171,34 | 209 18.8 | 13.0 13.1 | 95 94 |
Manchester | 731,830 | 25.8 | 16.7 | 127 | Hammersmith | 123,853 | 23.8 | 13.9 | 94 |
Sheffield | 472,234 | 27.4 | 16.3 | 132 | Fulham | 157,303 | 23.5 | 13.4 | 113 |
Leeds | 457,507 | 23.5 | 14.8 | 123 | Chelsea | 64,511 | 20.2 | 13.5 | 67 |
Bristol | 361,573 | 21.5 | 13.3 | 100 | City of Westminster | 154,544 | 14.0 | 12.6 | 80 |
West Ham | 294,476 | 30.3 | 14.8 | 106 | north. | ||||
Bradford | 290,612 | 19.6 | 15.6 | 123 | St, Marylebone | 114,355 | 18.7 | 13.8 | 98 |
Hull | 237,472 | 27.6 | 15.3 | 121 | Hampstead | 86,388 | 14.8 | 10.4 | 80 |
Newcastle-on-Tyne | 271,523 | 27.9 | 17.0 | 136 | |||||
Islington | 325,496 | 25.2 | 15.2 | 105 | |||||
Nottingham | 264,970 | 23.4 | 15.3 | 145 | Islington Stoke Newington | 50,511 | 20.7 | 13.1 | 78 |
rortsmoutn | 241,748 | 23.6 | 12.6 | 85 | Hackney | 223,393 | 24.5 | 13.9 | 92 |
Stoke.on.Trent | 239,515 | 31.9 | 17.6 | 144 | central. | ||||
Salford | 233,970 | 26.7 | 16.5 | 125 | Holborn | 46,832 | 16 .4 | 16.1 | 90 |
Leicester | 231,152 | 22.0 | 13.9 | 120 | Finsbury | 84,521 | 30.1 | 19.6 | 123 |
Cardiff | 185,763 | 25.7 | 13.9 | 120 | City of London | 17,831 | 10.2 | 134 | 94 |
Bolton | 184,026 | 21.9 | 14.4 | 119 | east. Shoreditch | 109,569 | 32.1 | 19.0 | 141 |
Croydon | 178,511 | 22.4 | 11.0 | 80 | Bethnal Green | 127,807 | 29.7 | 16.0 | 137 |
Willesden | 164,115 | 24.0 | 10.5 | 86 | Stepney | 275,081 | 29.4 | 16.5 | 124 |
Rhondda | 162,592 | 34.0 | 14.5 | 136 | Poplar | 160,839 | 81.6 | 17.1 | 116 |
Sunderland | 152,436 | 32.4 | 16.9 | 134 | south. | ||||
Oldham | 150,055 | 23.2 | 17.7 | 138 | Southwark | 188,321 | 29.8 | 17.8 | 124 |
Tottenham | 146,141 | 26.0 | 11.5 | 92 | Bermondsey | 124,633 | 310 | 17.4 | 125 |
East Ham | 142,905 | 23.9 | 10.3 | 77 | Lambeth | 297,094 | 23.7 | 14.6 | 104 |
Birkenhead | 135,789 | 27 .8 | 15.2 | 120 | Battersea | 167,451 | 25.8 | 13.3 | 93 |
Blackburn | 134,015 | 20,8 | 14,6 | 115 | Wandsworth | 331,321 | 20.2 | 10.9 | 89 |
Camberwell | 261,828 | 25.2 | 13.7 | 99 | |||||
Brighton | 133,186 | 17.6 | 133 | 82 | Deptford | 109,269 | 28.6 | 14.4 | 99 |
Walthamstow | 131,890 | 23.3 | 10.5 | 80 | Greenwich | 96,018 | 25.1 | 14.7 | 98 |
Leyton | 131,224 | 20.9 | 10.2 | 79 | Lewisham | 169,211 | 19.8 | 10.9 | 74 |
Derby | 125,562 | 24.0 | 12.8 | 92 | Woolwich | 122,431 | 23.3 | 13.8 | 85 |