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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1895
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1895
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ARTIZANS' DWELLINGS.
At the Artizans' Dwellings in Houndsditch,
we have to deal with a population of say 1,066
persons—53.5 per cent. being adults, and 46.5
per cent. children.
The Death Rate in these buildings was 121
per 1,000 per annum, of which 61.6 per cent.
were children under 5 years of age.
Deaths of children under one year to
1,000 births, 102, as against 147 for the City
generally, and 165 for all London. (Table C.)
The Birth Rate is high in our dwellings,
viz. : 45.9 per 1,000, as against 16.3 for the
whole of the City, and 30.5 for all London.
No births of illegitimate children were
recorded in 1895, a fact which speaks well for
the morality of the inmates.