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London County Council 1907

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

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The following table enables comparison to be made of the infant mortality in London and
other large English towns.

Table: Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births.

Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births.

Town.1897-1906.1907.Town.1897-1906.1907.
London14811161Bradford160124
Liverpool180144West Ham166131
Manchester182146Newcastle166123
Birmingham182147Hull169127
Leeds170130Nottingham181165
Sheffield180145Salford188140
Bristol137100Leicester174131

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London had therefore both in the period 1897-1906 and in 1907 a lower infant mortality than
any of these towns except Bristol.
The following table shows the deaths under one year of age and the number of these deaths
per 1,000 births in each of the sanitary areas of the County of London for the period 1902-6 and
for the year 1907:—

Table: sanitary areas- Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 biths.

sanitary areas- Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 biths.

Sanitary area.Deaths under one year of age, 1907. (52 weeks)Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births.
1902-6.1907.
Paddington355118109
Kensington441140128
Hammersmith362140117
Fulham565140122
Chelsea185135122
Westminster, City of303115102
St. Marylebone268130101
Hampstead959069
St. Pancras628132108
Islington1,000125116
Stoke Newington107113100
Hackney634128112
Holborn140132131
Finsbury373159130
London, City of2612194
Shoreditch569167150
Bethnal Green574151138
Stepney1,217144117
Poplar653152124
Southwark858153138
Bermondsey498156123
Lambeth940134120
Battersea527131114
Wandsworth70911899
Camberwell773131115
Deptford355136108
Greenwich259129100
Lewisham32710990
Woolwich373116112
London14,11413511161

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It will be seen from the foregoing table that both in the period 1902-6 and the year 1907
Shoreditch (167 and 150 respectively) had the highest infantile death-rate and Hampstead (90 and 69
respectively) had the lowest.
The reports of Medical Officers of Health of the several sanitary areas of the Administrative
County for the year 1907 contain tables prepared in accordance with the instructions of the
Local Government Board giving the number of deaths, from all causes and certain specified causes, of
infants at different periods in the first year of life. From the information thus supplied, the
following table has been compiled, showing the figures for London as a whole.
1 See footnote (1), page 8.