Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The eighth annual report of the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the District of Woolwich for the year 1896
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Towns. | Estimated Population middle of 1836. | Bilths. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small.pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Deaths of Children ' under one year of age to 1,000 Births. | Rate per cent, of Uncertified Deaths. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | ||||||||||||||
WOOLWICH | 41338 | 1283 | 860 | 30.5 | 20.4 | 4.26 | 179 | .. | 72 | 9 | 31 | 21 | 3 | 35 | 174 | .. |
West Ham | 261297 | 8658 | 4268 | 32.6 | 16.1 | 3.00 | 79 7 | 4 | 117 | 55 | 187 | 158 | 61 | 215 | 165 | 37 |
Croydon | 118006 | 3009 | 1706 | 25.1 | 14.2 | 194 | 233 | .. | 67 | 5 | 29 | 62 | 18 | 52 | 150 | .. |
Brighton | 120499 | 3022 | 1975 | 24.7 | 16.1 | 1.63 | 199 | .. | 55 | 6 | 19 | 32 | 14 | 73 | 135 | 1.7 |
Portsmouth | 178639 | 50o6 | 3009 | 27.6 | 16.6 | 2.11 | 383 | .. | 125 | 20 | 20 | 59 | 27 | 132 | 154 | 0.7 |
Plymouth | 90276 | 2643 | 1796 | 288 | 19.6 | 2.30 | 210 | .. | 95 | 3 | 13 | 17 | 6 | 76 | 178 | 0.5 |
Bristol | 230623 | 6465 | 3961 | 27.0 | 16.9 | 1.90 | 444 | 5 | 143 | 59 | 37 | 61 | 18 | 121 | 142 | 1.2 |
Cardiff | 162690 | 5591 | 2784 | 33.8 | 16.8 | 2 .27 | 376 | 3 | 38 | 28 | 62 | 105 | 13 | 127 | 165 | 1.3 |
Swansea | 98645 | 3061 | 1689 | 30.5 | 16.8 | 1.18 | 118 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 56 | 15 | 25 | 184 | 1.3 |
Wolverhampton | 86530 | 3023 | 1755 | 34.4 | 20.0 | 3.11 | 274 | .. | 9 | 2l | 53 | 31 | 30 | 124 | 184 | 1.3 |
Birmingham | 501241 | 16603 | 10600 | 32.6 | 20.8 | 3.57 | 1823 | .. | 307 | 148 | 270 | 378 | 107 | 613 | 197 | 5.0 |
Norwich | 108630 | 3400 | 1919 | 30.8 | 17.4 | 2.33 | 257 | .. | 117 | 4 | 24 | 9 | 21 | 82 | 164 | 1.6 |
Leicester | 198659 | 6212 | 3376 | 30.8 | 16.7 | 2.97 | 599 | .. | 121 | 50 | 64 | 51 | 40 | 273 | 187 | 27 |
Nottingham | 229775 | 6758 | 4087 | 28.9 | 17.5 | 2.47 | 575 | .. | 205 | 26 | 13 | 90 | 79 | 162 | 168 | 1.4 |
Derby | 101770 | 2901 | 1619 | 280 | 157 | 1.91 | 197 | .. | 34 | 11 | 10 | 54 | 21 | 67 | 151 | 0 4 |
Birkenhead | 109343 | 3527 | 2133 | 31.7 | 19.2 | 2.97 | 330 | .. | 115 | 32 | 22 | 59 | 26 | 76 | 177 | 0.4 |
Liverpool | 632512 | 22416 | 14617 | 34.9 | 22.7 | 3.01 | 1938 | .. | 306 | 227 | 157 | 294 | 206 | 748 | 173 | 3.4 |
Bolton | 120380 | 3831 | 2536 | 31.3 | 20.7 | 280 | 344 | .. | 6 | 40 | 14 | 102 | 48 | 134 | 168 | 0.3 |
Manchester | 529561 | 17787 | 12184 | 330 | 226 | 3.42 | 1834 | .. | 570 | 197 | 81 | 360 | 122 | 504 | 176 | 1.3 |
Salford | 210707 | 7480 | 4848 | 349 | 22.6 | 4.10 | 879 | .. | 202 | 104 | 49 | 189 | 71 | 204 | 199 | 2.1 |
Oldham | 143442 | 3971 | 2955 | 27.2 | 20.3 | 2.91 | 425 | .. | 167 | 56 | 35 | 53 | 23 | 91 | 184 | 0.3 |
Burnley | 102805 | 3245 | 1830 | 31.0 | 17.5 | 2.19 | 229 | .. | 63 | 4 | 48 | 28 | 13 | 73 | 170 | 1.4 |
Blackburn | 129459 | 3649 | 2351 | 277 | 17.9 | 182 | 238 | .. | 41 | 9 | 10 | 47 | 34 | 97 | 171 | 2.7 |
Preston | 113864 | 3776 | 2403 | 32 6 | 20.8 | 1.86 | 217 | .. | 4 | 3 | 12 | 43 | 26 | 129 | 203 | 4.3 |
Huddersfield | 100463 | 2096 | 1682 | 20.5 | 16.5 | 160 | 163 | .. | 28 | 19 | 21 | 55 | 13 | 27 | 165 | 2.5 |
Halifax | 94775 | 2337 | 1669 | 24.3 | 17.3 | 1.10 | 105 | .. | 16 | .. | 21 | 33 | 20 | 15 | 149 | 1.7 |
Bradford | 228809 | 5939 | 3840 | 255 | 16.5 | 1.58 | 369 | 1 | 107 | 24 | 17 | 104 | 28 | 88 | 143 | 0.8 |
Leeds | 402449 | 12574 | 7670 | 30.7 | 18 8 | 2.28 | 937 | 1 | 1 99 | 71 | 49 | 246 | 87 | 284 | 169 | 0.6 |
Sheffield | 347278 | 12011 | 6797 | 34.0 | 19.3 | 2 91 | 1024 | .. | 200 | 102 | 56 | 205 | 101 | 360 | 173 | 3.5 |
Hull | 220844 | 7171 | 4245 | 31.9 | 18.9 | 3.32 | 745 | .. | 260 | 57 | 51 | 1.3 | 62 | 202 | 173 | 2.8 |
Sunderland | I4O386 | 4873 | 2828 | 34.2 | 19.5 | 3.00 | 428 | .. | 143 | 27 | 8 | 70 | 53 | 121 | 158 | 09 |
Gateshead | 98436 | 3583 | 1910 | 35.8 | 19.1 | 3.10 | 310 | .. | 137 | 26 | 18 | 35 | 22 | 72 | 172 | 09 |
Newcastle.on.Tyne | 212223 | 67O1 | 3981 | 3.1 | 18.5 | 2.08 | 45o | .. | 129 | 26 | 39 | 103 | 33 | 110 | 165 | 0.5 |