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Greenwich 1897

Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1898

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in the London sanitary areas severally during each of the past ten
years:—

DEATHS from DIPHTHERIA, per 1,000 living, in each of the METROPOLITAN SANITARY AREAS during the Ten Years 1888-97, after distribution of Deaths in Public Institutions.

Sanitary Areas.Year.
1888.1889.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.
REGISTRATION LONDON.0·310·380·330·320·440·750·610·520·590·50
West.
Paddington0·660·360·340·200·230·580·760·380·510·51
Kensington0·550·670·200·170·200·490·460·530·400·47
Hammersmith0·420·490·510·750·740·530·490·430·490·28
Fulham0·130·150·250·210·320·630·990·700·660·63
Chelsea0·150·250·580·170·410·540·540·501·170·56
S. George, Hanover Square0·560·370·160·260·330·430·240·300·300·21
St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster0·650·500·160·200·800·260·480·390·370·43
St. James, Westminster0·190·080·120·280·250·580·630·170·090·13
North.
St Marylebone0·160·230·190·180·340·660·510·250·520·33
Hampstead0·260·130·310·190·390·530·270·190·390·22
St. Pancras0·310·260·550·300·460·850·500·550·400·47
Islington0·160·200·250·500·470·610·670·440·740·38
Stoke Newington0·870·150·150·560·56
Hackney0·350·440·290·340·560·590·390·470·62
Central.
St. Giles0·270·420·240·300·539·560·360·340·180·19
St Martin-in-the Fields0·190·130·070·280·840·580·440·530·230·24
Strand0·110·300·150·200·320·900·370·540·120·21
Holborn0·140·490·520·270·520·680·630·220·380·53
Clerkenwell0·390·360·280·420·421·150·510·510·620·73
St.Luke0·230·300·370·280·331·100·360·480·620·51
City of London0·270·300·280·340·660·310·180·240·340·33
East
Shoreditch0·260·560·460·530·361·110·610·470·600·64
Bethnal Green0·410·790·880·470·911·061·030·780·570·65
Whitechapel0·330·460·680·730·780·800·600·750·600·43
St George-in-the-East0·330·940·650·420·721·341·091·060·620·59
Limehouse0·430·820·480 280·441·060·880·780·830·50
MIle End Old Town0·190·500·400·340·750·730·741·010·860·56
Poplar0·260·390·420·330·471·000·640·900·610·71
South.
St. Saviour0·470·440·180·410·220·650·770·510·700·48
St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark0·390·340·230·300·440·750·820·280·650·46
Newington0·160·480·270·380·330·790·510·430·580·53
St. Olave0·320·080·310·400·240·570·250·340·760·17
Bermondsey0·160·270·220·190·240·940·780·340·840·73
Rotherhithe0·210·420·200·100·280·780·780·770·630·52
Lambeth0·400·580·270·280·470·650·490·380·460·48
Battersea ................0·200·230·270·460·351·070·730·570·490·63
Wandsworth0·460·300.140·230·400·070·450·250·210·57
Camberwell0·200·310·220·200·330·540·780·721·010·69
Greenwich (including Deptford)0·220·190·280·280·310·870·771·060·780·39
Lee*0·140·140·140·080·160·540·560·290·430·43
Lewisham((exclud. Penge)0·470·070·210·110·270·690·380·170·880·42
Woolwich0·080·150·120·060·100·200·340·340·740·80
Plumstead*0·410·270·270·110·701·180·640·620·910·39

* The rates for Lee and Plumstead for all the years relate to those sanitary areas as constituted
on March 9th, 1894.