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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 1898

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1898

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In comparing the above with the RegistrarGeneral's
Returns, some discrepancies will be
observed, due to the fact that I have not been
furnished with the number of citizens who died
in Institutions other than those with which the
City is connected.
The number of deaths from the principal
zymotic diseases was 18, or 0.62 per 1,000 of
the population, against 2.77 for the Metropolis.
The deaths of children under 1 year of age to
1,000 births come out 118, against 166 for the
whole of London.
BIRTHS.
The number of children born in the City (see
Table B) was 468. The birth rate, therefore,
was 16.1 per 1,000. The birth rate for the
whole of London is given as 29.5.
This wide variation is due to the differences in
the sex and age distribution of their populations.