Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The fifth annual report on the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the District of Woolwich for the year 1893
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TABLE X.—Continued.
Comparative Analysis of Births and Deaths, etc. in Woolwich, and other Sanitary Districts of the Metropolis during the year 1893.
Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population middle of 1893. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Kate per 1000 living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping- Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever | Simple and Undefined Fever. | | Diarrhoea. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to lOOO births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | |||||||||||||||
East Districts. | |||||||||||||||||
Shoreditch | 123440 | 4450 | 3153 | 36.1 | 25.5 | 4.6 | 566 | 3 | 129 | 39 | 137 | 80 | .. | 16 | 1 | 161 | 178 |
Bethnal Green | 129620 | 4756 | 3257 | 36.7 | 25.1 | 4.1 | 527 | 7 | 83 | 71 | 136 | 60 | .. | 25 | .. | 145 | 177 |
Whitechapel | 75178 | 3096 | 1916 | 41.2 | 25.5 | 3.1 | 235 | 5 | 37 | 32 | 61 | 26 | .. | 8 | .. | 66 | 168 |
St. George-in-the-East | 45493 | 1966 | 1403 | 43.2 | 30.8 | 4.9 | 221 | 1 | 32 | 14 | 62 | 23 | .. | 4 | .. | 85 | 209 |
Liraehouse | 57115 | 1953 | 1613 | 34.2 | 28.2 | 4.7 | 269 | 8 | 21 | 35 | 61 | 64 | 1 | 18 | .. | 61 | 205 |
Mile End Old Town | 108041 | 4146 | 2430 | 38.4 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 361 | 8 | 39 | 40 | 80 | 44 | .. | 29 | .. | 121 | 149 |
Poplar | 169141 | 5918 | 3905 | 34.9 | 23.1 | 3.8 | 639 | 12 | 32 | 105 | 168 | 74 | 1 | 62 | .. | 185 | 169 |
South Districts. | |||||||||||||||||
St. Saviour, Southwark | 26854 | 780 | 649 | 29.0 | 24.2 | 3.1 | 82 | .. | 6 | 18 | 17 | 20 | .. | 3 | .. | 18 | 154 |
St. George, Soutliwark | 59953 | 2169 | 1700 | 36.2 | 28.4 | 4.8 | 286 | 7 | 35 | 12 | 45 | 74 | .. | 13 | .. | 70 | 206 |
Newington | 117672 | 4345 | 2856 | 36.9 | 24.3 | 3.7 | 432 | 6 | 34 | 51 | 93 | 109 | .. | 13 | .. | 126 | 176 |
St. Olave, Southwark | 12903 | 412 | 312 | 31.9 | 21.2 | 2.2 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 3 | .. | 2 | .. | 9 | 141 |
Bermondsey | 84216 | 3202 | 2004 | 38.0 | 23.8 | 3.3 | 275 | 4 | 36 | 30 | 80 | 46 | 1 | 8 | .. | 70 | 168 |
Rotherhithe | 40020 | 1379 | 927 | 34.5 | 23.2 | 3.4 | 136 | 13 5 | 10 | 16 | 31 | 33 | .. | 8 | .. | 25 | 165 |
Lambeth | 280284 | 9212 | 5749 | 32.9 | 20.5 | 2.7 | 761 | 113 | 69 | 185 | 51 | 1 | 36 | .. | 197 | 149 | |
Battersea | 158105 | 5225 | 2!i80 | 33.1 | 18.9 | 3.6 | 570 | 12 1 | 93 | 40 | 167 | 114 | .. | 22 | .. | 122 | 169 |
Wandsworth | 172143 | 4569 | 2617 | 26.5 | 15.2 | 2.5 | 422 | 36 | 53 | 113 | 181 | .. | 18 | 1 | 119 | 142 | |
Camberwell | 245143 | 7472 | 4724 | 30.5 | 19.3 | 2.5 | 619 | 11 | 83 | 73 | 130 | 109 | .. | 27 | .. | 186 | 161 |
Greenwich | 171120 | 5877 | 3510 | 31.4 | 20.5 | 3.5 | 606 | 13 | 103 | 71 | 147 | 100 | .. | 28 | 1 | 143 | 165 |
Lewisham | 77473 | 1899 | 1133 | 24.5 | 14.6 | 1.7 | 135 | 5 | 19 | 11 | 53 | 8 | .. | 9 | 1 | 29 | 128 |
Plumstead | 94596 | 2874 | 1547 | 30.4 | 16.4 | 3.0 | 285 | 2 | 53 | 43 | 85 | 32 | .. | 11 | .. | 54 | 137 |