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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Table No. 7— continued.
SANITARY AREAS. | Estimated POPULATION middle of 1897. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Childrenunder 1 year of age to 1,000 births. | |||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | |||||||||||||||||
East Districts. Shoreditch | 121883 | 4314 | 2627 | 35•5 | 21•6 | 4•07 | 496 | 1 | 116 | 29 | 78 | 63 | ... | 20 | ... | 189 | 247 | 183 | |
Bethnal Green | 129098 | 4818 | 2761 | 37•4 | 21•4 | 3•41 | 439 | ... | 114 | 25 | 84 | 57 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 140 | 255 | 171 | |
Whitechapel | 79724 | 3150 | 1623 | 39•6 | 20•4 | 2•16 | 171 | ... | 45 | 15 | 34 | 16 | ... | 8 | ... | 53 | 200 | 148 | |
St. George-in-the-East | 47917 | 2029 | 1262 | 42•5 | 26•4 | 4•27 | 204 | ... | 68 | 14 | 28 | 24 | ... | 10 | ... | 60 | 132 | 197 | |
Limehouse | 58508 | 1997 | 1462 | 34•2 | 25•1 | 3•54 | 206 | ... | 63 | 12 | 29 | 37 | ... | 4 | ... | 61 | 149 | 193 | |
Mile End Old Town | 111883 | 4257 | 2085 | 38•2 | 18•7 | 2•97 | 330 | ... | 77 | 12 | 62 | 58 | ... | 23 | ... | 98 | 156 | 149 | |
Poplar | 169811 | 5849 | 3353 | 34•5 | 19•8 | 3•07 | 519 | ... | 83 | 28 | 120 | 83 | ... | 30 | ... | 175 | 319 | 170 | |
South Districts. St. Saviour, Southwark | 24919 | 769 | 611 | 30•9 | 24•6 | 3•66 | 91 | ... | 32 | 7 | 12 | 12 | ... | 2 | ... | 26 | 80 | 195 | |
St. George, Southwark | 60388 | 2114 | 1426 | 35•1 | 23•7 | 4•35 | 262 | 1 | 67 | 14 | 28 | 32 | ... | 10 | 1 | 109 | 171 | 189 | |
Newington | 122191 | 4248 | 2588 | 34•9 | 21•2 | 3•59 | 439 | ... | 85 | 33 | 65 | 82 | ... | 9 | ... | 165 | 269 | 177 | |
St. Olave, Southwark | 11480 | 434 | 253 | 37•9 | 22•1 | 2•96 | 34 | ... | 6 | 2 | 2 | 8 | ... | 1 | ... | 15 | 33 | 154 | |
Bermondsey | 85629 | 3176 | 1883 | 37•2 | 22•1 | 4•35 | 371 | ... | 76 | 34 | 62 | 62 | ... | 13 | ... | 124 | 174 | 190 | |
Rotherhithe | 40643 | 1258 | 766 | 31•0 | 18•9 | 3•26 | 132 | ... | 21 | 22 | 21 | 17 | ... | 2 | ... | 49 | 64 | 174 | |
Lambeth | 300048 | 9388 | 5247 | 31•4 | 17•5 | 2•65 | 791 | ... | 140 | 42 | 144 | 144 | ... | 26 | ... | 295 | 500 | 151 | |
Battersea | 168877 | 5266 | 2734 | 31•3 | 16•2 | 2•79 | 470 | ... | 79 | 47 | 106 | 79 | ... | 19 | ... | 140 | 281 | 162 | |
Wandsworth | 195612 | 5042 | 2606 | 25•8 | 13•4 | 1•91 | 370 | ... | 27 | 29 | 111 | 42 | ... | 16 | ... | 144 | 222 | 135 | |
Camberwell | 257575 | 7483 | 4276 | 29•1 | 16•6 | 2•91 | 750 | 5 | 141 | 32 | 170 | 111 | ... | 31 | ... | 260 | 386 | 159 | |
Greenwich, in eluding Deptford | 178367 | 5563 | 3058 | 31•3 | 17•2 | 2•27 | 405 | 2 | 35 | 32 | 70 | 57 | ... | 29 | ... | 180 | 263 | 157 | |
Lee | 39215 | 881 | 516 | 22•5 | 13•2 | 1•43 | 56 | ... | 6 | 3 | 17 | 5 | ... | 3 | ... | 22 | 43 | 135 | |
Lewisham | 86152 | 2186 | 1099 | 25•4 | 12•8 | 1•71 | 147 | ... | 17 | 9 | 36 | 19 | ... | 7 | ... | 59 | 81 | 129 | |
Woolwich | 41409 | 1307 | 735 | 31•7 | 17•8 | 2•54 | 105 | ... | 2 | 8 | 33 | 8 | ... | 4 | ... | 50 | 79 | 158 | |
Plamstead | 61057 | 1975 | 834 | 32•4 | 13 •7 | 1•97 | 120 | ... | 3 | 6 | 24 | 22 | ... | 3 | 1 | 61 | 95 | 116 |