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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
Hammersmith 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith, Metropolitan Borough of]
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The following table of Deaths from Infectious Diseases per 1,000 persons living is compiled from the Registrar General's Report.
| borqughs. | Births. | All | Causes. | Enteric Fever. | | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping-cough. | Diphtheria. | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years). | Total Deaths under 1 year. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude. | Standardized.1 | |||||||||||
| COUNTY OF LONDON | 24.5 | 14.2 | 0'.02 | - | 0'34 | 0.04 | 0.17 | 0.09 | 1.30 | 2750 | 105 | |
| Paddington | 21.1 | I3.4 | O.O4 | — | 0.38 | 0.05 | 0.26 | 0.08 | 1. 09 | 23.24 | 100 | |
| Kensington | I9'3 | 13.7 | 0.02 | — | 0.48 | 0.02 | 0.17 | 0.03 | 108 | 23.83 | 112 | |
| Hammersmith | 24.2 | 13.9 | — | — | 0.37 | 0.06 | 0.37 | 0.10 | 1.'20 | 21. 03 | 103 | |
| Fulham | 26..9 | I2.5 | 0.05 | — | 0.31 | 0.02 | 0.17 | 0.09 | 1.3I | 22. 78 | 96 | |
| Chelsea | 19 .1 | 13.9 | 0.02 | — | 0.27 | 0.05 | 0.08 | 0.02 | 1.23 | 19.09 | 90 | |
| City of Westminster | 14.2 | 12.7 | 0.02 | 0.14 | 0.04 | 0.04 | o.o5 | 1.3I | 23.35 | 96 | ||
| St. Marylebone | 19.1 | 14.0 | 0'04 | — | 0.28 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.05 | 1.36 | 16.60 | 91 | |
| Hampstead | 15.1 | 10.7 | 0.0i | — | 0.24 | 0.05 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.57 | 13.57 | 73 | |
| St. Pancras | 25.3 | I5'2 | 0.03 | — | 0.19 | 0.03 | 0.14 | 0.07 | 1.5O | 20.68 | 92 | |
| Islington | 253 | 15.1 | 0'.02 | — | 0.32 | 0.05 | 0.18 | 0.10 | 1. 33 | 26.44 | 107 | |
| Stoke Newington | 22.3 | 13.6 | O.O4 | — | 0. 21 | 0.02 | 0.12 | 0.12 | 0.93 | 13.99 | 82 | |
| Hackney | 24.3 | 13.4 | 13.5 | 0.02 | — | 0.30 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 0.05 | 1.15 | 25.53 | 99 |
| Holborn | I6.7 | 14.-6 | _ | _ | 0.21 | _ | 0. 13 | 0.08 | 1.87 | 18.80 | 104 | |
| Finsbury | 29.6 | 18.3 | — | — | 0.35 | 0.05 | 0.36 | 0.10 | 2.01 | 38.08 | 138 | |
| City of London | 15.2 | O.1l | — | - | 0.05 | O.1l | 0.05 | 1.48 | 11.98 | 96 | ||
| Shoreditch | 31.5 | 18.6 | 0.01 | — | 0.47 | 0.03 | 0.26 | 0.13 | 1. 79 | 58.92 | 155 | |
| Bethnal Green | 30.8 | I5.4 | 0.03 | — | 0.48 | 0.02 | 0.26 | 0.08 | 1.55 | 37.77 | 118 | |
| Stepney | 29.3 | 14.9 | 0.04 | — | 0.34 | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 1.68 | 35.06 | 112 | |
| Poplar | 32.0 | 16.3 | 0.03 | — | 0.42 | 0.07 | 0.23 | 0.21 | 1 .46 | 30.40 | 112 | |
| Southwark | 31.0 | 17'4 | 0.03 | — | o.55 | 0.06 | 0.20 | O.IO | 1.85 | 30.66 | 115 | |
| Bermondsey | 30.7 | 17.9 | 0.02 | — | 0.71 | 0.03 | 0.37 | 0.13 | 1.61 | 42.35 | 132 | |
| Lambeth | 23.9 | 14.3 | 0.03 | — | 0.33 | 0.05 | o.16 | 0.12 | 1. 29 | 27.93 | 102 | |
| Battersea | 24.9 | I3.9 | O.O4 | — | o.55 | 0.04 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 1. 13 | 29.49 | 111 | |
| Wandsworth | 20.4 | 10.6 | 0.01 | — | 0.35 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.86 | 21.64 | 88 | |
| Camberwell | 25.1 | 13.7 | 13.6 | 0.02 | — | 0.26 | 0.05 | 0.20 | 0.07 | 1.15 | 26.83 | 106 |
| Deptford | 27.9 | 15.3 | 0.02 | — | o.45 | 0.03 | O.4I | 0.15 | 1.30 | 29.97 | 112 | |
| Greenwich | 26. 0 | 14.2 | 0.02 | — | 0.41 | 0.02 | 0.25 | 0.12 | 20.46 | 103 | ||
| Lewisham | 20.5 | io.6 | 0.05 | — | 0.15 | 0.03 | 0.13 | 0.20 | 0.74 | 14.20 | 78 | |
| Woolwich | 23.3 | 12.6 | 0..01 | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.08 | O.I4 | 1.50 | 16.59 | 79 | ||
• The Standardized death-rates represent the Crude death-rates multiplied by the respective
Standardizing Factors in order to make Correction for differences of sex and age constitution of
the several populations in 1911 as compared with that of England and Wales in 1901.