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, 1897
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Towns. | Estimated Population middle of '96. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Fever. | Diarrhœa. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1,000 Births. | Rate per cent, of Uncertified Deaths. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Disease. | ||||||||||||||
33 Towns | 10,846,971 | 339,115 | 208,534 | 30.7 | 18.9 | 2.86 | 31,550 | 25 | 7,839 | 2,406 | 4,202 | 6,245 | 2,073 | 8,760 | 167 | 1.5 |
32 Provincial Towns | 6,425,016 | 203,319 | 125,023 | 31.1 | 19.1 | 2.67 | 17,450 | 16 | 4,142 | 1,464 | 1,519 | 3,308 | 1,464 | 5,537 | 172 | 2.1 |
London | 4,421,955 | 135,796 | 83,511 | 30.2 | 18.6 | 3.14 | 14,100 | 9 | 3,697 | 942 | 2,683 | 2,937 | 609 | 3,223 | 161 | 0.6 |
West Ham | 261,297 | 8,658 | 4,268 | 32.6 | 16.1 | 3.00 | 797 | 4 | 117 | 55 | 187 | 158 | 61 | 215 | 165 | 3.7 |
Croydon | 118,006 | 3,009 | 1,706 | 25.1 | 14.2 | 1.94 | 233 | .. | 67 | 5 | 29 | 62 | 18 | 52 | 150 | .. |
Brighton | 120,499 | 3,022 | 1,975 | 24.7 | 16.1 | 1.63 | 199 | .. | 55 | 6 | 19 | 32 | 14 | 73 | 135 | 1.7 |
Portsmouth | 178,639 | 5,006 | 3,009 | 27.6 | 16.6 | 2.11 | 383 | .. | 125 | 20 | 20 | 59 | 27 | 132 | 154 | 0.7 |
Plymouth | 90,276 | 2,643 | 1,796 | 28.8 | 19.6 | 2.30 | 210 | .. | 95 | 3 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 76 | 178 | 0.5 |
Bristol | 230,623 | 6,465 | 3,961 | 27.6 | 16.9 | 1.90 | 444 | 5 | 143 | 59 | 37 | 61 | 18 | 121 | 142 | 1.2 |
Cardiff | 162,690 | 5,591 | 2,784 | 33.8 | 16.8 | 2.27 | 376 | 3 | 38 | 28 | 62 | 105 | 13 | 127 | 165 | 1.3 |
Swansea | 98,645 | 3,061 | 1,689 | 30.5 | 16.8 | 1.18 | 118 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 56 | 15 | 25 | 161 | 1.1 |
Wolverhampton | 86,530 | 3,023 | 1,755 | 34.4 | 20.0 | 3.11 | 274 | .. | 9 | 21 | 53 | 31 | 36 | 124 | 184 | 1.3 |
Birmingham | 501,241 | 16,603 | 10,600 | 32.6 | 20.8 | 3.57 | 1,823 | .. | 307 | 148 | 270 | 378 | 107 | 613 | 197 | 5.0 |
Norwich | 108,630 | 3,400 | 1,919 | 30.8 | 17.4 | 2.33 | 257 | .. | 117 | 4 | 24 | 9 | 21 | 82 | 164 | 1.6 |
Leicester | 198,659 | 6,212 | 3,376 | 30.8 | 16.7 | 2.97 | 599 | .. | 121 | 50 | 64 | 51 | 40 | 273 | 187 | 2.7 |
Nottingham | 229,775 | 6,758 | 4,087 | 28.9 | 17.5 | 2.47 | 575 | .. | 205 | 26 | 13 | 90 | 79 | 162 | 168 | 1.4 |
Derby | 101,770 | 2,901 | 1,619 | 28.0 | 15.7 | 1.91 | 197 | .. | 34 | 11 | 10 | 54 | 21 | 67 | 151 | 0.4 |
Birkenhead | 109,343 | 3.527 | 2,133 | 317 | 19.2 | 2.97 | 330 | .. | 115 | 32 | 22 | 59 | 26 | 76 | 177 | 1.0 |
Liverpool | 632,512 | 22,416 | 14,617 | 34.9 | 22.7 | 3.01 | 1,938 | .. | 306 | 227 | 157 | 294 | 206 | 748 | l73 | 3.4 |
Bolton | 120,380 | 3,831 | 2,536 | 31.3 | 20.7 | 2.80 | 344 | .. | 6 | 40 | 14 | 102 | 48 | 134 | 168 | 0.3 |
Manchester | 529,561 | 17,787 | 12,184 | 33.0 | 22.6 | 3.42 | 1,834 | .. | 570 | 197 | 81 | 360 | 122 | 504 | 176 | 1.3 |
Salford | 210,707 | 7,480 | 4,848 | 34.9 | 22.6 | 4.10 | 879 | .. | 202 | 104 | 49 | 189 | 71 | 264 | 199 | 2.1 |
Oldham | 143,442 | 3,971 | 2,955 | 27.2 | 20.3 | 2.91 | 425 | .. | 167 | 56 | 35 | 53 | 23 | 91 | 184 | 0.3 |
Burnley | 102,805 | 3,245 | 1,830 | 31.0 | 17.5 | 2.19 | 229 | .. | 63 | 4 | 48 | 28 | 13 | 73 | 170 | 1.4 |
Blackburn | 129,459 | 3,649 | 2,351 | 27.7 | 17.9 | 1.82 | 238 | .. | 41 | 9 | 10 | 47 | 34 | 97 | 171 | 2.7 |
Preston | 113,864 | 3,776 | 2,403 | 326 | 208 | 1.86 | 217 | .. | 4 | 3 | 12 | 43 | 26 | 129 | 203 | 4.3 |
Huddersfield | 100,463 | 2,096 | 1,682 | 20.5 | 16.5 | 1.60 | 163 | .. | 28 | 19 | 21 | 55 | 13 | 27 | 166 | 2.5 |
Halifax | 94,775 | 2,337 | 1,669 | 24.3 | 17.3 | 1.10 | 105 | .. | 16 | .. | 21 | 33 | 20 | 15 | 149 | 1.7 |
Bradford | 220,809 | 5,939 | 3,840 | 25.5 | 10.5 | 1.58 | 369 | 1 | 107 | 24 | 17 | 104 | 28 | 88 | 143 | 0.8 |
Leeds | 402,449 | 12,574 | 7,670 | 30.7 | 18.8 | 2.28 | 937 | 1 | 199 | 71 | 49 | 246 | 87 | 284 | 169 | 0.6 |
Sheffield | 347,278 | 12,011 | 6,797 | 34.0 | 19.3 | 2.91 | 1,024 | .. | 200 | 102 | 56 | 205 | 101 | 360 | 173 | 3.5 |
Hull | 220,844 | 7,171 | 4,245 | 31.9 | 18.9 | 3.32 | 745 | .. | 260 | 57 | 51 | 113 | 62 | 202 | 173 | 2.8 |
Sunderland | 140,386 | 4,873 | 2,828 | 34.2 | 19.8 | 3.00 | 428 | .. | 143 | 27 | 8 | 76 | 53 | 121 | 158 | 0.9 |
Gateshead | 98,436 | 3,583 | 1,910 | 35.8 | 19.1 | 3.10 | 310 | .. | 137 | 26 | 18 | 35 | 22 | 72 | 172 | 0.9 |
Newcastle-on-Tyne | 212,223 | 6,701 | 3,981 | 31.1 | 18.5 | 2.08 | 450 | .. | 139 | 26 | 39 | 103 | 33 | 110 | 165 | 0.5 |