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 Hackney]
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The position of Hackney, as compared with the other Metropolitan Boroughs is very satisfactory—and appears to be improving—as is shown by the following table, which gives the death rates and infantile mortality rates in 1924.
Deaths per 1000 Population. | Infantile Deaths per 1000 Births. | ||
---|---|---|---|
Lewisham | 10.4 | Lewisham | 47 |
Woolwich | 11.0 | Lambeth | 50 |
Wandsworth | 11.0 | Hampstead | 56 |
Fulham | 11.1 | Wandsworth | 57 |
Stoke Newington | 11.3 | Stoke Newington | 58 |
11.4 | Westminster | 59 | |
Greenwich | 11.4 | 60 | |
Camberwell | 11.1 | Battersea | 62 |
Hampstead | 11.7 | Chelsea | 63 |
Battersea | 11.7 | Woolwich | 65 |
Deptford | 12.0 | Islington | 66 |
Westminster | 12.1 | Camberwell | 70 |
Poplar | 12.1 | Southwark | 71 |
Holborn | 12.2 | Poplar | 72 |
Stepney | 12.2 | Hammersmith | 72 |
Islington | 12.3 | Fulham | 72 |
Hammersmith | 12.4 | Greenwich | 73 |
Bethnal Green | 12.4 | St. Pancras | 74 |
Lambeth | 12.5 | Stepney | 74 |
St. Pancras | 13.0 | Kensington | 75 |
Kensington | 13.0 | Finsbury | 75 |
Paddington | 13.1 | Deptford | 76 |
Chelsea | 13.2 | Bermondsey | 78 |
St. Marylebone | 13.6 | St. Marylebone | 78 |
Bermondsey | 13.6 | Paddington | 78 |
Shoreditch | 13.7 | Bethnal Green | 78 |
Finsbury | 14.1 | Holborn | 81 |
Southwark | 14.2 | Shoreditch | 87 |
The zymotic death-rate is 45 as compared with 34, the figure
for 1923. The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified during 1924
was 528, as compared with 457 in 1923, and the number of
Diphtheria cases notified in 1924 was 546, as compared with 528
during 1923.
The deaths from Scarlet Fever numbered only 7, 2 more than
the previous year, and the deaths from Diphtheria 34, being 5
more than those registered in 1923.