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 1931. (52 weeks ended 2nd January, 1932.)
Estimated Population, Mid. 1931. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality, | Estimated Population, Mid. 1931. | Birth Bate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality. | ||
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England and Wales | 39,988,000 | 15.8 | 12.3 | 66 | County of London | 4,374,300 | 15.0 | 12-4 | 65 |
Birmingham | 1,012,700 | 17.1 | 11.6 | 70 | West. | ||||
Liverpool | 862,900 | 21.6 | 14.2 | 94 | Paddington | 140,300 | 14.8 | 13.1 | 87 |
Manchester | 773,900 | 16.0 | 13.8 | 85 | Kensington | 174,800 | 14.2 | 14.1 | 76 |
Sheffield | 517,800 | 15.0 | 11.8 | 69 | Hammersmitd | 135,100 | 15.3 | 12.2 | 68 |
Leeds | 486,400 | 14.8 | 18.4 | 77 | Fulham | 151,200 | 15.1 | 12.3 | 68 |
Bristol | 399,900 | 15.1 | 11.9 | 50 | Chelsea | 57,220 | 12.8 | 14.1 | 42 |
Kingston.upon Hull | 315,200 | 19.2 | 13.2 | 81 | City of Westminster | 119,000 | 10.1 | 13.6 | 74 |
Bradford | 300,900 | 18.6 | 14.3 | 71 | Nortd. | ||||
West Ham | '296,700 | 17.7 | 11.4 | 63 | St. Marylebone | 93,460 | 11.4 | 13.1 | 66 |
Newcastle.on.Tyne | 284,400 | 17.8 | 18.4 | 92 | Hampstead | 87,740 | 11.2 | 11.7 | 61 |
Stoke.on.Trent | 279,900 | 18.6 | 18.0 | 100 | St. Pancras | 195,600 | 15.2 | 134 | 67 |
Nottingham | 270,900 | 17.2 | 13.6 | 82 | Islington | 324,600 | 16.7 | 12.7 | 63 |
Portsmoutd | 248,400 | 17.5 | 12.9 | 55 | Stoke Newington | 51,880 | 15.2 | 12.7 | 54 |
Leicester | 241,300 | 15.8 | 12.4 | 64 | Hackney | 217,000 | 15.5 | 11.5 | 60 |
Croydon | 233,800 | 14.5 | 11.4 | 57 | Central. | ||||
Salford | 225,900 | 16.0 | 14.2 | 97 | Holborn | 84,470 | 10.2 | 14.8 | 74 |
Cardiff | 223,800 | 16.8 | 12.8 | 77 | Finsbury | 70,120 | 17.1 | 14.0 | 66 |
Plymoutd | 207,500 | 16.5 | 14.8 | 67 | City of London | 9,880 | 6.5 | 14.4 | 82 |
Sunderland | 187,600 | 21.8 | 14.4 | 99 | East. | ||||
Willesden | 185,630 | 15.9 | 10.4 | 58 | Shoreditch | 98,260 | 17.1 | 12.5 | 75 |
Bolton | 179,200 | 18.7 | 13.5 | 80 | Betdnal Green | 109,200 | 16.b | 12.5 | 88 |
Soutdampton | 175,600 | 17.8 | 11.4 | 47 | Stepney | 226,500 | 17.5 | 18.1 | 78 |
Coventry | 168,900 | 14.7 | 10.0 | 59 | Poplar | 156,300 | 17.5 | 12.4 | 77 |
Swansea | 165,500 | 16.8 | 11.6 | 70 | Soutd. | ||||
Tottenham | 159,300 | 14.7 | 10.2 | 58 | Soutdwark | 172,900 | 16.9 | 140 | 61 |
Birkenhead | 148,500 | 18.4 | 18.4 | 86 | Bermondsey | 112,400 | 17.4 | 12.6 | 57 |
Brighton | 145,000 | 18.5 | 14.0 | 54 | Lambetd | 295,900 | 15.8 | 12.7 | 60 |
Derby | 143,600 | 16.2 | 11.4 | 63 | Battersea | 159,800 | 15.5 | 12.1 | 57 |
East Ham | 142,800 | 14.8 | 10.7 | 59 | Wandswortd | 353,200 | 12.8 | 11.4 | 62 |
Rhondda | 142,280 | 17.1 | 18.4 | 81 | Camberwell | 252,100 | 14.7 | 11.9 | 56 |
Oldham | 141,900 | 18.6 | 14.8 | 106 | Deptford | 107,200 | 16.3 | 12.0 | 58 |
Middlesbrough | 138,900 | 21.4 | 14.1 | 100 | Greenwich | 100,640 | 14.8 | 11.4 | 65 |
Waltdmnstow | 184,420 | 14.5 | 10.4 | 56 | Lewisham | 220,800 | 14.1 | 10.2 | 50 |
Wolverhampton | 184,400 | 17.1 | 12.0 | 69 | Woolwich | 147,400 | 14.6 | 11.6 | 59 |
Ilford | 132,150 | 15.0 | 9.0 | 56 | |||||
Leyton | 128,600 | 14.1 | 10.6 | 89 | |||||
Norwich | 126,800 | 15.4 | 12.1 | 55 | |||||
Stockport | 126,600 | 18.6 | 18.9 | 79 |