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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" The following table shows the Death Rates from Diphtheria
in each of the London sanitary areas from the year 1887 to 1896:—
DEATHS from DIPHTHERIA, per 1000 living, in each of the METROPOLITAN SANITARY AREAS during the Ten Years 1887-96, after distribution of Deaths in Public Institutions.
Sanitary Areas. | Year. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1887. | 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | |
REGISTRATION LONDON. West. | 0.23 | 0.31 | 0.38 | 0.33 | 032 | 0.44 | 0.75 | 0.61 | 0.52 | 0.59 |
Paddington | 0.26 | 0.06 | 0.36 | 0.34 | 0.20 | 0.23 | 0.58 | 0.76 | 0.38 | 0.51 |
Kensington | 0.24 | 0.66 | 0.67 | 0.20 | 0.17 | 0.20 | 0.49 | 0.46 | 0.53 | 0.40 |
Hammersmith | 0.51 | 0.42 | 0.49 | 0.51 | 0.75 | 0.74 | 0.53 | 0.49 | 0.43 | 0.49 |
Fulham | 0.26 | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.25 | 0.21 | 0.32 | 0.63 | 0.99 | 0.70 | 0.66 |
Chelsea | 0.20 | 0.15 | 0.25 | 0.58 | 0.17 | 0.41 | 0.54 | 0.54 | 0.59 | 1.17 |
St. George, Hanover Square | 0.16 | 0.56 | 0.37 | 0.16 | 0.26 | 0.33 | 0.43 | 0.24 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster | 0.44 | 0.65 | 0.50 | 0.16 | 0.20 | 0.80 | 0.26 | 0.48 | 0.39 | 0.37 |
St. James, Westminster North. | 0.11 | 0.19 | 0.08 | 0.12 | 0.28 | 0.25 | 0.58 | 0.63 | 0.17 | 0.09 |
St. Marylebone | 0.10 | 0.16 | 0.23 | 0.19 | 0.18 | 0.34 | 0.66 | 0.51 | 0.25 | 0.52 |
Hampstead | 0.22 | 0.26 | 0.13 | 0.31 | 0.19 | 0.39 | 0.53 | 0.27 | 0.19 | 0.39 |
St. Pancras | 0.26 | 0.31 | 0.26 | 0.56 | 0.30 | 0.45 | 0.85 | 0.50 | 0.55 | 0.40 |
Islington | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.20 | 0.25 | 0.50 | 0.47 | 0.61 | 0.67 | 044 | 0.74 |
Stoke Newington} | 0.19 | 0.35 | 0.44 | 0.29 | 0.34 | 0.56 | 0.87 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.56 |
Hackney} | 0.59 | 0.39 | 0.47 | |||||||
Central. | ||||||||||
St. Giles | 0.55 | 0.27 | 0.42 | 0.24 | 0.30 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 0.36 | 0.34 | 0.18 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 0.32 | 0.19 | 0.13 | 0.07 | 0.28 | 0.84 | 0.58 | 0.44 | 053 | 0.23 |
Strand | 0.36 | 0.11 | 0.30 | 0.15 | 0.20 | 0.32 | 0.90 | 0.37 | 0 54 | 0.12 |
Holborn | 0.26 | 0.14 | 0.49 | 0.52 | 0.27 | 0.52 | 0.68 | 0.63 | 0.22 | 0.38 |
Clerkenwell | 0.25 | 0.39 | 0.36 | 0.28 | 0.42 | 0.42 | 1.15 | 0.51 | 0.51 | 0.62 |
St. Luke | 0.27 | 0.23 | 0.30 | 0.37 | 0.28 | 0.33 | 1.10 | 0.36 | 0.48 | 0.62 |
City of London | 0.12 | 0.27 | 0.30 | 0.28 | 0.34 | 0.66 | 0.31 | 0.18 | 0.24 | 0.34 |
East. | ||||||||||
Shoreditch | 0.22 | 0.26 | 0.56 | 0.46 | 0.53 | 0.36 | 1.11 | 061 | 0.47 | 0.60 |
Bethnal Green | 0.21 | 0.41 | 0.79 | 0.88 | 0.47 | 0.91 | 1.06 | 103 | 0.78 | 0.57 |
Whitechapel | 0.08 | 0.33 | 0.46 | 3.68 | 0.73 | 0.78 | 0.80 | 0.60 | 0.75 | 060 |
St. George-in-the-East | 0.33 | 0.33 | 0.94 | 0.65 | 0.42 | 0.72 | 1.34 | 1 .09 | 1 .06 | 0.62 |
Limehouse | 0.24 | 0.43 | 0.82 | 0.48 | 0.28 | 0.44 | 1.06 | 0.88 | 0.78 | 0.83 |
Mile End Old Town | 0.21 | 0.19 | 0.50 | 0.40 | 0.34 | 0.75 | 0.73 | 0'74 | 101 | 0.86 |
Poplar | 0.18 | 0.26 | 0.39 | 0.42 | 0.33 | 0.47 | 1.00 | 0.64 | 0.90 | 0'61 |
South. | ||||||||||
St. Saviour | 0.29 | 0.47 | 0.44 | 0.18 | 0.41 | 0.22 | 0.65 | 0.77 | 0.51 | 0.70 |
St. George.the.Martyr, | 0.20 | 0.39 | 0.34 | 0.23 | 0.30 | 0.44 | 0.75 | 0.82 | 0.28 | 0.65 |
Southwark | ||||||||||
Newington | 0.24 | 0.16 | 0.48 | 0.27 | 0.38 | 0.33 | 0.79 | 0.51 | 0.43 | 0.58 |
St. Olave | 0.16 | 0.32 | 0.08 | 0 31 | 0.40 | 0.24 | 0.57 | 0.25 | 0.34 | 0.76 |
Bermondsey | 0.19 | 0.16 | 0.27 | 0.22 | 0.19 | 0.24 | 0.94 | 0.78 | 0. 34 | 0.84 |
Rotherhithe | 0.16 | 0.21 | 0.42 | 0.20 | 0.10 | 0.28 | 0.78 | 0.78 | 0.77 | 0.63 |
Lambeth | 0.39 | 0.40 | 0.58 | 0.27 | 0.28 | 0.47 | 0.65 | 0.49 | 0.38 | 0.46 |
Battersea} | 0.19 | {0.20 | 0.23 | 0.27 | 0.46 | 0.35 | 1.07 | 0.73 | 0.57 | 0.49 |
Wandsworth} | {0.46 | 0.30 | 0.14 | 0.23 | 0.40 | 0.67 | 0.45 | 0.25 | 0.21 | |
Camberwell | 0.30 | 0.29 | 0.31 | 0.22 | 0.20 | 0.33 | 0.54 | 0.78 | 0.72 | 1.01 |
Greenwich (including Deptford) | 0.24 | 0.22 | 0.19 | 0.28 | 0.28 | 0.31 | 0.87 | 0.77 | 1.06 | 0.78 |
Lee* | 0.23 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.08 | 0.16 | 0.54 | 0.56 | 0.29 | 0.43 |
Lewisham (exclud. Penge) | 0.17 | 0.47 | 0.07 | 0.21 | 0.11 | 0.27 | 0 69 | 0.38 | 0.17 | 0.88 |
Woolwich | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.34 | 0.34 | 0.74 |
Plumstead* | 0.25 | 0.41 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.11 | 0.70 | 1.18 | 0.64 | 0.62 | 0.91 |
*The rates for Lee and Plumstead for all the years relate to those sanitary areas as constituted
on 25th March, 1894.