London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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City of London 1894

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894

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This compares very favourably with other Dwellings of the same class as shewn by table below:-

1894.Death Rate.Zymotic Death Rate.Birth Rate.
City of London (5 Blocks in Houndsditch)14.12.844.1
Great Wild St. BlockPeabody18.92.139.3
Little Coram St. Block11.5-38.4
Model Houses, Streatham46.85.226.0
Thurstan & Holland Model Buildings, Newton Street11.53.87.6

The Birth Rate is high in our dwellings,
viz.: 44.1 per 1,000, as against 14.9 for the
whole of the City, and 30.1 for all London,
and in a great measure accounts for the
correspondingly large infantile mortality, viz.,
170 per 1,000 births.
No births of illegitimate children were
recorded.