London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

London County Council 1893

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

14
The infant mortality in London compared with that of other English towns having more than
200,000 inhabitants was as follows—

Table:

Ten years, 1883-92.1893.Ten years, 1883-92.1893.
London153164*West Ham152170
Manchester182203Bristol144141
Liverpool185211Bradford166197
Birmingham169198Nottingham170170
Leeds173206Hull162206
Sheffield173191Salford187210

Text

Copy text to clipboard

The infant mortality of London was therefore in 1893 and in the period 1883-92 less than that
of any of these towns except Bristol. Bristol again was exceptional in the fact that its infant mortality
was in 1893 less than the average of the preceding ten years.
The infant mortality of the several London districts in 1893 was as follows—
Infant mortality.

Table:

Deaths under one year of age.Deaths under one year of age to 1,000 births.Deaths under one year of age.Deaths under one year of ago to 1,000 births.
Paddington451150Bethnal-green844177
Kensington620169Whitechapel520168
Hammersmith474160St. George-in-the-East410209
Fulham653176Limehouse401205
Chelsea452158Mile-end Old-town619149
St. George, Hanover-square199133Poplar1,003169
Westminster255188St. Saviour, Southwark120154
St. James77146St. George, Southwark447206
Marylebone660151Newington763176
Hampstead154102St. Olave58141
Pancras1,209172Bermondsey537168
Islington1,603164Rotherhithe227165
Hackney1,049152Lambeth1,371149
St. Giles143131Battersea883169
St. Martin-in-the-Fields42188Wandsworth647142
Strand130219Camberwell1,200161
Holborn185214Greenwich887165
Clerkenwell425202Lewisham300121
St. Luke308174Woolwich208160
London, City of83132Plumstead394144
Shoreditch791178London21.802163+

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Deaths from several classes of disease.
The deaths from the several classes of disease registered in the registration county of London,
and occurring in the lunatic asylums and hospitals for infectious disease belonging to the county are
given by the Registrar-General in the Annual Summary of Births, Deaths and Causes of Deaths, and
the following table has been prepared from the figures contained in the summary.
1893 Corrected annual
average 1883-92.
Zymotic diseases 16,435 14,258*0
Parasitic 60 112.9
Dietetic 688 438.1
Constitutional 16,726 17,053.5
Developmental 5,731 5,362.7
Nervous 9,352 9,850.1
Organs of special sense 182 131.8
Circulatory 7,099 6,696.5
Respiratory 19,754 19,105.2
Digestive 5,100 4,778.4
Lymphatic 134 108.6
Urinary 2,355 2,185.3
Generative 638 513.5
Locomotive 262 384.9
Integumentary 333 290.3
Violence (accident) 2,918 2,669.0
Violence (other than accident) 507 486.4
Other causes 3,262 3,255.7
* See footnote (*), page 6.
†See footnote (†), page 6.