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

London County Council 1899

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

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Table: Tlhe death rate of each sanitary district in the period 1889-98 and in 1899 will he seen from the following table—

Tlhe death rate of each sanitary district in the period 1889-98 and in 1899 will he seen from the following table—

Sanitary district.Death 8, 1899.Death rate per 1,000 living.Sanitary district.Deaths, 1899.Death rate per 1,000 living.
1889—98.1899.1889—98.1899.
Paddington106.58.83Shoreditch1981.091.64
Kensington101.51.59Bethnal-green156.841.21
Hammersmith101.83.93Whitechapel46.72.57
Fulham1831131.40St. George-in-the-East591.411.22
Chelsea64.69.66Limehouse71931.21
St. George, Hanover-square29.32.36Mile-end Old-town111.85.98
Poplar247.811.45
Westminster39.63.75St. Saviour, Southwark34.751.41
St. James8.38.37St. George, Southwark1021.071.69
Marylebone100.55.72Newington124.911.00
Hampstead35.27.44St. Olave6.93.54
Pancras231.70.95Bermondsey82.78.96
Islington256.5974Rotherhithe32.78.78
Stoke Newington19.66.54Lambeth286.69.93
Hackney194.87Battersea116.80.66
St. Giles26.55.70Wandsworth176.59.84
St. Martin - in - the -Fields6.31.50Camberwell239.69.90
Greenwich203.761.12
Strand...17.55.74Lewisham106.52.94
Holborn26.70.88Woolwich45.681.09
Clerkenwell ...70.951.06Lee27.40.67
St. Luke591.061.45Plumstead51.57.80
London, City of9.23.32London4,196711921