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, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table No. 4.—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 1930. (53 weeks ended 3rd January, 1931.)
— | Estimated Population, Mid. 1929. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality. | — | Estimated Population, Mid. 1929. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality. |
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Birmingham | 963,500 | 17.8 | 10.8 | 62 | |||||
Liverpool | 869,500 | 21.7 | 12.7 | 81 | Paddington | 142,800 | 15.1 | 12.4 | 79 |
Manchester | 746,500 | 17.2 | 12.8 | 78 | Kensington | 175,800 | 14.7 | 12.3 | 69 |
Sheffield | 518,000 | 15.1 | 10.6 | 66 | Hammersmith | 136,900 | 15.9 | 11.6 | 65 |
Leeds | 478,500 | 15.8 | 12.2 | 66 | Fulham | 153,700 | 15.4 | 10.7 | 56 |
Bristol | 391,145 | 15.7 | 11.2 | 59 | Chelsea | 62,680 | 12.7 | 11.9 | 41 |
West Ham | 307,600 | 18.2 | 10.8 | 65 | City of Westminster | 125,800 | 10.5 | 11.5 | 60 |
Hull | 307,500 | 20.6 | 12.4 | 71 | |||||
Bradford | 294,605 | 15.1 | 13.4 | 73 | St. Marylebone | 102,400 | 12.2 | 11.1 | 62 |
Newcastleon-Tyne | 283,400 | 18.4 | 12.1 | 71 | Hampstead | 84,830 | 11.8 | 11.3 | 58 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 279,190 | 19.8 | 11.7 | 71 | |||||
Nottingham | 266,800 | 17.0 | 12.7 | 76 | Islington | 319,800 | 17.8 | 12.0 | 69 |
Leicester | 245,200 | 15.8 | 11.0 | 55 | Stoke Newington | 50,040 | 14.6 | 11.9 | 52 |
Portsmouth | 242,000 | 16.3 | 11.5 | 57 | Hackney | 214,400 | 16.4 | 11.0 | 49 |
Salford | 235,600 | 16.5 | 12.3 | 75 | |||||
Cardiff | 224,000 | 16.9 | 11.2 | 72 | Holborn | 38,380 | 10.6 | 12.6 | 90 |
Croydon | 222,300 | 15.8 | 10.3 | 48 | Finsbury | 70,980 | 18.2 | 13.0 | 63 |
Plymouth | 199,000 | 16.0 | 12.5 | 61 | City of London | 10,700 | 8.3 | 12.0 | 44 |
Sunderland | 184,000 | 23.1 | 13.4 | 79 | |||||
Bolton | 181,500 | 13.8 | 12.0 | 67 | Shoreditch | 99,710 | 19.9 | 12.2 | 66 |
Willesden | 172,500 | 17.5 | 9.9 | 58 | Bethnal Green | 110,500 | 17.7 | 11.1 | 63 |
Southampton | 172,800 | 18.5 | 11.8 | 59 | Stepney | 241,800 | 17.4 | 11.2 | 76 |
Swansea | 162,700 | 18.2 | 11.4 | 65 | Poplar | 160,000 | 19.1 | 10.5 | 56 |
Coventry | 162,100 | 15.2 | 10.2 | 67 | |||||
Birkenhead | 157,600 | 17.8 | 11.1 | 85 | Southwark | 178,500 | 16.8 | 12.5 | 58 |
Tottenham | 155,000 | 16.2 | 9.9 | 52 | Bermondsey | 113,800 | 18.1 | 13.0 | 64 |
Rhondda | 153,100 | 16.1 | 10.7 | 84 | Lambeth | 294,400 | 16.1 | 11.9 | 58 |
East Ham | 147,600 | 15.3 | 9.6 | 52 | Battersea | 161,800 | 16.4 | 11.3 | 55 |
Brighton | 146,800 | 13.3 | 12.1 | 51 | Wandsworth | 346,700 | 13.5 | 10.8 | 55 |
Oldham | 142,500 | 13.3 | 13.3 | 67 | Camberwell | 256,900 | 14.8 | 10.7 | 53 |
Derby | 140,500 | 17.1 | 11.2 | 71 | Deptford | 111,000 | 15.9 | 11.2 | 60 |
Wolverhampton | 134,300 | 18.1 | 10.6 | 64 | Greenwich | 99,900 | 15.8 | 10.3 | 46 |
Middlesbrough | 133,100 | 21.8 | 12.9 | 80 | Lewisbam | 207,900 | 15.1 | 9.7 | 43 |
Leyton | 128,300 | 13.7 | 9.5 | 45 | Woolwich | 141,600 | 14.9 | 10.7 | 41 |
Stockport | 127,800 | 13.8 | 11.4 | 53 | |||||
Preston | 126,100 | 15.7 | 11.8 | 68 | |||||
Blackburn | 125,300 | 12.7 | 12.7 | 84 |
† Estimated population to middle of 1930.