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 Woolwich]
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Sanitary Area. | Estimated Population middle of 1895. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1000 Births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
Shoreditch | 122932 | 4352 | 2856 | 35.5 | 23.3 | 3.8 | 460 | 2 | 106 | 30 | 58 | 87 | ... | 22 | ... | 155 | 283 | 199 |
Bethnal Green | 130061 | 4771 | 2769 | 36.8 | 21.4 | 3.4 | 441 | 4 | 116 | 30 | 101 | 34 | ... | 17 | ... | 139 | 245 | 162 |
Whitechapel | 75820 | 3130 | 1824 | 41.4 | 24.1 | 3.3 | 250 | 4 | 82 | 23 | 58 | 19 | ... | 10 | ... | 54 | 219 | 157 |
St. George-in-the-East | 45227 | 1972 | 1330 | 43.7 | 29.5 | 5.5 | 246 | ... | 88 | 20 | 50 | 21 | ... | 7 | ... | 60 | 113 | 196 |
Limehouse | 56885 | 2035 | 1547 | 35.9 | 27.3 | 4.6 | 261 | 1 | 86 | 20 | 45 | 40 | ... | 10 | ... | 59 | 136 | 202 |
Mile End Old Town | 108443 | 4204 | 2436 | 38.9 | 22.5 | 3.9 | 424 | 1 | 113 | 26 | 111 | 42 | ... | 17 | ... | 114 | 182 | 165 |
Poplar | 171230 | 6071 | 3865 | 35.6 | 22.6 | 4.0 | 677 | 1 | 216 | 48 | 152 | 80 | ... | 33 | ... | 147 | 273 | 183 |
St. Saviour Southwark | 26570 | 830 | 677 | 31.3 | 25.5 | 2.9 | 76 | ... | 17 | 6 | 13 | 13 | ... | 1 | ... | 26 | 84 | 205 |
St. George Southwark | 60168 | 2188 | 1524 | 36.5 | 25.4 | 3.2 | 194 | ... | 49 | 14 | 38 | ... | 7 | ... | 69 | 186 | 198 | |
Newington | 119358 | 4234 | 2872 | 35.6 | 24.1 | 3.4 | 401 | 4 | 132 | 16 | 52 | 71 | ... | 15 | 1 | 110 | 263 | 201 |
St. Olave Southwark | 13065 | 428 | 314 | 32.9 | 24.1 | 2.4 | 31 | ... | 3 | 4 | 7 | ... | 2 | ... | 5 | 32 | 206 | |
Berinondsey | 83861 | 3212 | 1869 | 38.4 | 22.3 | 3.2 | 270 | ... | 114 | 16 | 29 | 20 | ... | 11 | ... | 80 | 190 | 162 |
Rotherhithe | 40713 | 1304 | 783 | 32.1 | 19.3 | 2.7 | 110 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 31 | 10 | ... | 9 | ... | 32 | 76 | 148 |
Lambeth | 284883 | 9341 | 5567 | 32.9 | 19.6 | 2.6 | 741 | 2 | 150 | 53 | 112 | 132 | ... | 26 | 2 | 264 | 511 | 152 |
Battersea | 165130 | 5264 | 2872 | 32.0 | 17.4 | 2.7 | 442 | 1 | 98 | 30 | 92 | 53 | 1 | 22 | ... | 145 | 247 | 177 |
Wandsworth | 185956 | 4721 | 2747 | 25.5 | 14.8 | 1.3 | 250 | 2 | 30 | 16 | 46 | 24 | ... | 26 | ... | 106 | 213 | 132 |
Camber well | 252737 | 7528 | 4610 | 29.9 | 18.3 | 2.6 | 648 | 7 | 111 | 46 | 179 | 68 | ... | 33 | ... | 204 | 394 | 164 |
Greenwich | 175183 | 5475 | 3305 | 31.3 | 18.9 | 2.7 | 465 | 3 | 49 | 36 | 184 | 55 | ... | 17 | ... | 121 | 268 | 150 |
Lee | 38832 | 826 | 561 | 21.3 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 54 | ... | 18 | 5 | 11 | 5 | ... | 3 | ... | 12 | 56 | 140 |
Lewisham | 82410 | 2037 | 1187 | 24.8 | 14.4 | 1.5 | 126 | ... | 12 | 9 | 14 | 32 | ... | 7 | ... | 52 | 76 | 135 |
Plumstead | 61494 | 1877 | 929 | 30.6 | 15.2 | 153 | 2 | 24 | 10 | 36 | 5 | ... | 30 | ... | 46 | 90 | 133 |