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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
Hackney 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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| Estimated Population. | Birth.rate. | Death.rate. | Infantile Mortality Rate. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wandsworth | 350,200 | Shoreditch | 16.0 | Lewisham | 10.2 | Hampstead | 38 |
| *IsIington | 319,100 | Poplar | 15.4 | City of London | 10.9 | Lewisham | 39 |
| Lambeth | 289,000 | Finsbury | 15.1 | Hampstead | 11.0 | Stoke Newington | 46 |
| Camber.well | 243,700 | Stepney | 15.1 | Woolwich | 11.1 | Battersea | 49 |
| Lewisham | 221,100 | Deptford | 14.8 | Wandsworth | 11.4 | Camberwell | 49 |
| Stepney | 219,100 | Battersea | 14.7 | Hackney | 11.5 | Finsbury | 50 |
| Hackney | 214,300 | Bethnal Green | 14.3 | Greenwich | 11.9 | Hackney | 50 |
| St. Pancras | 190,900 | Islington | 14.3 | Deptford | 12.1 | Wandsworth | 50 |
| Kensington | 181,100 | Southwark | 14.2 | St. Marylebone | 12.2 | Deptford | 54 |
| Soutbwark | 164,700 | Bermondsey | 14.0 | Camberwell | 12.3 | Poplar | 54 |
| Battersea | 154,000 | Hackney | 14.0 | Stoke Newington | 12.3 | St. Marylebone | 56 |
| Poplar | 149,300 | Hammersmith | 13.9 | Battersea | 12.4 | St. Pancras | 58 |
| Fulham | 148,200 | Greenwich | 13.7 | Islington | 12.4 | Bermondsey | 61 |
| Woolwich | 146,200 | Lambeth | 13.6 | Poplar | 12.4 | Woolwich | 62 |
| Paddington | 141,900 | St. Pancras | 13.6 | Westminster | 12.4 | Islington | 63 |
| Hammersmith | 131,400 | Paddington | 13.4 | Bermondsey | 12.5 | Lambeth | 63 |
| Westminster | 126,300 | Camberwell | 13.3 | Bethnal Green | 12.5 | Southwark | 63 |
| Bermondsey | 107,300 | Fulham | 13.0 | Finsbury | 12.8 | City of London | 65 |
| Bethnal Green | 104,200 | Stoke Newington | 12.6 | Hammersmith | 12.9 | Fulham | 65 |
| Deptford | 102,800 | Woolwich | 12.6 | Kensington | 12.9 | Hammersmith | 65 |
| Greenwich | 97,830 | Lewisham | 12.2 | Stepney | 12.9 | Stepney | 65 |
| St. Marylebone | 94,080 | Kensington | 12.0 | Fulham | 13.0 | Bethnal Green | 66 |
| Shoreditch | 93,550 | Wandsworth | 10.9 | Shoreditch | 13.0 | Greenwich | 66 |
| Hampstead | 90,380 | Chelsea | 10.6 | Lambeth | 13.1 | Westminster | 68 |
| Finsbury | 66,640 | St. Marylebone | 9.7 | Paddington | 13.3 | Holborn | 70 |
| Chelsea | 58,850 | Hampstead | 9.6 | Holborn | 13.4 | Kensington | 72 |
| Stoke Newington. | 51,120 | Holborn | 9.4 | Chelsea | 13.6 | Shoreditch | 74 |
| Holborn | 36,050 | Westminster | 8.7 | St. Pancras | 13.7 | Chelsea | 78 |
| City of London | 9,830 | City of London | 7.7 | Southwark | 13.9 | Paddington | 85 |
| County of London (1933) | 4,298,600 | 13.2 | 12.2 | 59 | |||
*Estimated population 1932.
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