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 London County Council]
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The infant mortality in 1895 and in the period 1885-94 in the several London sanitary districts was as follows—
Sanitary district. | Deaths under 1 year of age 1895. | Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births. | |
---|---|---|---|
1885-94. | 1895. | ||
Paddington | 488 | 143 | 164 |
Kensington | 623 | 162 | 172 |
Hammersmith | 483 | 159 | 166 |
Fulham | 735 | 164 | 187 |
Chelsea | 460 | 155 | 168 |
St. George, Hanover-square | 203 | 138 | 138 |
Westminster | 238 | 164 | 185 |
St. James | 78 | 162 | 144 |
Marylebone | 607 | 141 | 138 |
Hampstead | 196 | 114 | 135 |
Pancras | 1,239 | 157 | 174 |
Islington | 1,411 | 148 | 143 |
Stoke Newington | 94 | 137 | 116 |
Hackney | 949 | 154 | |
St. Giles | 179 | 151 | 160 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 50 | 193 | 265 |
Strand | 107 | 200 | 175 |
Holborn | 174 | 204 | 212 |
Clerkenwell | 399 | 169 | 192 |
St. Luke | 351 | 147 | 184 |
London, City of | 87 | 155 | 157 |
Shoreditch | 864 | 170 | 199 |
Bethnal-green | 772 | 159 | 162 |
Whitechapel | 490 | 165 | 157 |
St. George-in-the-East | 386 | 192 | 196 |
Limehouse | 411 | 187 | 202 |
Mile-end Old-town | 694 | 149 | 165 |
Poplar | 1,113 | 152 | 183 |
St. Saviour, Southwark | 170 | 178 | 205 |
St. George, Southwark | 434 | 185 | 198 |
Newington | 852 | 165 | 203 |
St. Olave | 88 | 173 | 206 |
Bermondsey | 520 | 155 | 162 |
Rotherhithe | 193 | 157 | 148 |
Lambeth | 1,421 | 144 | 152 |
Battersea | 930 | 155 | 177 |
Wandsworth | 623 | 129 | 132 |
Camberwell | 1,235 | 149 | 164 |
Greenwich | 823 | 147 | 150 |
Lewisham | 348 | 136 | 138 |
Woolwich | 204 | 146 | 153 |
Lee | 116 | 1115 | 140 |
Plumstead | 249 | 133 | |
London | 22,087 | 153 | 165* |
Corrected annual average 1885-94. | 1895. | |
---|---|---|
Zymotic diseases | 14,353.1 | 14,865 |
Parasitic ” | 96.1 | 61 |
Dietetic ” | 491.8 | 544 |
Constitutional diseases | 16,971.4 | 16,679 |
Developmental ” | 5,469.8 | 5,579 |
Nervous ” | 9,715.6 | 8,636 |
Diseases of organs of special sense | 141.4 | 168 |
Circulatory diseases | 6,949.0 | 6,905 |
Respiratory ” | 19,272.4 | 18,482 |
Diseases of the Digestive system | 4,801.8 | 5,099 |
” ” Lymphatic ” | 113.9 | 108 |
” ” Urinary ” | 2,247.2 | 2,230 |
” ” Generative ” | 533.4 | 500 |
” ” Locomotive ” | 364.4 | 253 |
” ” Integumentary system | 297.6 | 303 |
Violence (accident) | 2,723.7 | 2,850 |
Violence (other than accident) | 502.7 | 557 |
Other causes | 3,155.1 | 3,118 |
All causes | 88,200.4 | 86,937 |
* See footnote (2), page 10.