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 Bethnal Green]
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Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population middle of 1886. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria | Whooping- Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Deaths of Children under one year of age to 1000 Births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | |||||||||||||||
LONDON | 4,149,533 | 133,690 | 81,189 | 32.3 | 19.6 | 2.7 | 11,076 | 20 | 2077 | 685 | 830 | 2834 | 13 | 606 | 70 | 3941 | 159 |
Paddington | 111,135 | 2898 | 1915 | 26.2 | 17.3 | 2.4 | 266 | 1 | 65 | 11 | 31 | 56 | 15 | 1 | 86 | 154 | |
Kensington | 186,584 | 4148 | 2763 | 22.3 | 14.9 | 1.4 | 282 | . , | 57 | 10 | 29 | 81 | 11 | 1 | 93 | 153 | |
Fulham | 146,369 | 5501 | 2818 | 37.7 | 19.3 | 3.0 | 433 | 1 | 72 | 25 | 28 | 99 | 26 | 4 | 178 | 156 | |
Chelsea | 97,716 | 3238 | 2017 | 33.2 | 20.7 | 2.8 | 272 | . . | 38 | 6 | 28 | 94 | 13 | 2 | 91 | 161 | |
St. George, Hanover Sq. | 88,176 | 1761 | 1539 | 20.0 | 17.5 | 1.7 | 150 | .. | 22 | 9 | 24 | 39 | 11 | 1 | 44 | 153 | |
Westminster | 56,484 | 1705 | 1294 | 30.3 | 23.0 | 2.3 | 153 | . . | 19 | 14 | 11 | 53 | 4 | .. | 52 | 178 | |
St. James, Westminster. | 28,174 | 545 | 542 | 19.4 | 19.3 | 1.4 | 38 | .. | 9 | 4 | 2 | 9 | .. | .. | 14 | 191 | |
Marylebone | 150,884 | 4648 | 3082 | 30.9 | 20.5 | 2.3 | 346 | 2 | 68 | 13 | 16 | 86 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 145 | 158 |
Hampstead | 53,758 | 1325 | 770 | 24.7 | 14.4 | 1.5 | 79 | .. | 15 | 2 | 9 | 20 | .. | 8 | .. | 25 | 131 |
St. Pancras | 241,557 | 7593 | 4859 | 31.5 | 20.2 | 2.8 | 670 | 2 | 124 | 26 | 45 | 126 | .. | 29 | 1 | 217 | 158 |
Islington | 319,824 | 9814 | 5434 | 30.8 | 17.0 | 2.4 | 760 | 3 | 63 | 26 | 72 | 214 | 2 | 57 | 3 | 320 | 154 |
Hackney | 224,768 | 6666 | 3677 | 29.8 | 16.4 | 2.7 | 594 | 1 | 90 | 73 | 49 | 124 | .. | 56 | 6 | 195 | 151 |
St. Giles | 41,348 | 1286 | 1055 | 31.2 | 25.6 | 3.5 | 146 | .. | 43 | 6 | 5 | 40 | .. | 9 | 1 | 42 | 157 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 15,721 | 356 | 336 | 22.7 | 21.4 | 2.6 | 40 | .. | 6 | 1 | 1 | 13 | .. | 3 | .. | 16 | 199 |
Strand | 30,114 | 730 | 684 | 24.3 | 22.8 | 1.8 | 54 | .. | 10 | 2 | 4 | 11 | .. | 4 | .. | 23 | 219 |
Holborn | 31,625 | 987 | 875 | 31.3 | 27.8 | 3.8 | 121 | .. | 20 | 3 | 5 | 43 | .. | 5 | 1 | 44 | 210 |
Clerkenwell | 69,172 | 2279 | 1472 | 33.1 | 21.4 | 2.7 | 185 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 11 | 42 | .. | 8 | 2 | 91 | 165 |
St. Luke's | 52,000 | 1985 | 1214 | 38.3 | 23.4 | 3.4 | 178 | .. | 42 | 10 | 13 | 34 | .. | 2 | 72 | 161 | |
London City | 41,655 | 824 | 985 | 19.9 | 23.7 | 1.5 | 62 | .. | 7 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 1 | .. | 19 | 159 |