Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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. | 0·31 | 0·38 | 0·33 | 0·32 | 0·44 | 0·75 | 0·61 | 0·52 | 0·59 | 0·50 |
West. | ||||||||||
Paddington | 0·66 | 0·36 | 0·34 | 0·20 | 0·23 | 0·58 | 0·76 | 0·38 | 0·51 | 0·51 |
Kensington | 0·55 | 0·67 | 0·20 | 0·17 | 0·20 | 0·49 | 0·46 | 0·53 | 0·40 | 0·47 |
Hammersmith | 0·42 | 0·49 | 0·51 | 0·75 | 0·74 | 0·53 | 0·49 | 0·43 | 0·49 | 0·28 |
Fulham | 0·13 | 0·15 | 0·25 | 0·21 | 0·32 | 0·63 | 0·99 | 0·70 | 0·66 | 0·63 |
Chelsea | 0·15 | 0·25 | 0·58 | 0·17 | 0·41 | 0·54 | 0·54 | 0·50 | 1·17 | 0·56 |
S. George, Hanover Square | 0·56 | 0·37 | 0·16 | 0·26 | 0·33 | 0·43 | 0·24 | 0·30 | 0·30 | 0·21 |
St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster | 0·65 | 0·50 | 0·16 | 0·20 | 0·80 | 0·26 | 0·48 | 0·39 | 0·37 | 0·43 |
St. James, Westminster | 0·19 | 0·08 | 0·12 | 0·28 | 0·25 | 0·58 | 0·63 | 0·17 | 0·09 | 0·13 |
North. | ||||||||||
St Marylebone | 0·16 | 0·23 | 0·19 | 0·18 | 0·34 | 0·66 | 0·51 | 0·25 | 0·52 | 0·33 |
Hampstead | 0·26 | 0·13 | 0·31 | 0·19 | 0·39 | 0·53 | 0·27 | 0·19 | 0·39 | 0·22 |
St. Pancras | 0·31 | 0·26 | 0·55 | 0·30 | 0·46 | 0·85 | 0·50 | 0·55 | 0·40 | 0·47 |
Islington | 0·16 | 0·20 | 0·25 | 0·50 | 0·47 | 0·61 | 0·67 | 0·44 | 0·74 | 0·38 |
Stoke Newington | 0·87 | 0·15 | 0·15 | 0·56 | 0·56 | |||||
Hackney | 0·35 | 0·44 | 0·29 | 0·34 | 0·56 | 0·59 | 0·39 | 0·47 | 0·62 | |
Central. | ||||||||||
St. Giles | 0·27 | 0·42 | 0·24 | 0·30 | 0·53 | 9·56 | 0·36 | 0·34 | 0·18 | 0·19 |
St Martin-in-the Fields | 0·19 | 0·13 | 0·07 | 0·28 | 0·84 | 0·58 | 0·44 | 0·53 | 0·23 | 0·24 |
Strand | 0·11 | 0·30 | 0·15 | 0·20 | 0·32 | 0·90 | 0·37 | 0·54 | 0·12 | 0·21 |
Holborn | 0·14 | 0·49 | 0·52 | 0·27 | 0·52 | 0·68 | 0·63 | 0·22 | 0·38 | 0·53 |
Clerkenwell | 0·39 | 0·36 | 0·28 | 0·42 | 0·42 | 1·15 | 0·51 | 0·51 | 0·62 | 0·73 |
St.Luke | 0·23 | 0·30 | 0·37 | 0·28 | 0·33 | 1·10 | 0·36 | 0·48 | 0·62 | 0·51 |
City of London | 0·27 | 0·30 | 0·28 | 0·34 | 0·66 | 0·31 | 0·18 | 0·24 | 0·34 | 0·33 |
East | ||||||||||
Shoreditch | 0·26 | 0·56 | 0·46 | 0·53 | 0·36 | 1·11 | 0·61 | 0·47 | 0·60 | 0·64 |
Bethnal Green | 0·41 | 0·79 | 0·88 | 0·47 | 0·91 | 1·06 | 1·03 | 0·78 | 0·57 | 0·65 |
Whitechapel | 0·33 | 0·46 | 0·68 | 0·73 | 0·78 | 0·80 | 0·60 | 0·75 | 0·60 | 0·43 |
St George-in-the-East | 0·33 | 0·94 | 0·65 | 0·42 | 0·72 | 1·34 | 1·09 | 1·06 | 0·62 | 0·59 |
Limehouse | 0·43 | 0·82 | 0·48 | 0 28 | 0·44 | 1·06 | 0·88 | 0·78 | 0·83 | 0·50 |
MIle End Old Town | 0·19 | 0·50 | 0·40 | 0·34 | 0·75 | 0·73 | 0·74 | 1·01 | 0·86 | 0·56 |
Poplar | 0·26 | 0·39 | 0·42 | 0·33 | 0·47 | 1·00 | 0·64 | 0·90 | 0·61 | 0·71 |
South. | ||||||||||
St. Saviour | 0·47 | 0·44 | 0·18 | 0·41 | 0·22 | 0·65 | 0·77 | 0·51 | 0·70 | 0·48 |
St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark | 0·39 | 0·34 | 0·23 | 0·30 | 0·44 | 0·75 | 0·82 | 0·28 | 0·65 | 0·46 |
Newington | 0·16 | 0·48 | 0·27 | 0·38 | 0·33 | 0·79 | 0·51 | 0·43 | 0·58 | 0·53 |
St. Olave | 0·32 | 0·08 | 0·31 | 0·40 | 0·24 | 0·57 | 0·25 | 0·34 | 0·76 | 0·17 |
Bermondsey | 0·16 | 0·27 | 0·22 | 0·19 | 0·24 | 0·94 | 0·78 | 0·34 | 0·84 | 0·73 |
Rotherhithe | 0·21 | 0·42 | 0·20 | 0·10 | 0·28 | 0·78 | 0·78 | 0·77 | 0·63 | 0·52 |
Lambeth | 0·40 | 0·58 | 0·27 | 0·28 | 0·47 | 0·65 | 0·49 | 0·38 | 0·46 | 0·48 |
Battersea ................ | 0·20 | 0·23 | 0·27 | 0·46 | 0·35 | 1·07 | 0·73 | 0·57 | 0·49 | 0·63 |
Wandsworth | 0·46 | 0·30 | 0.14 | 0·23 | 0·40 | 0·07 | 0·45 | 0·25 | 0·21 | 0·57 |
Camberwell | 0·20 | 0·31 | 0·22 | 0·20 | 0·33 | 0·54 | 0·78 | 0·72 | 1·01 | 0·69 |
0·22 | 0·19 | 0·28 | 0·28 | 0·31 | 0·87 | 0·77 | 1·06 | 0·78 | 0·39 | |
Lee* | 0·14 | 0·14 | 0·14 | 0·08 | 0·16 | 0·54 | 0·56 | 0·29 | 0·43 | 0·43 |
Lewisham((exclud. Penge) | 0·47 | 0·07 | 0·21 | 0·11 | 0·27 | 0·69 | 0·38 | 0·17 | 0·88 | 0·42 |
Woolwich | 0·08 | 0·15 | 0·12 | 0·06 | 0·10 | 0·20 | 0·34 | 0·34 | 0·74 | 0·80 |
Plumstead* | 0·41 | 0·27 | 0·27 | 0·11 | 0·70 | 1·18 | 0·64 | 0·62 | 0·91 | 0·39 |
* The rates for Lee and Plumstead for all the years relate to those sanitary areas as constituted
on March 9th, 1894.