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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TABLE X.
| Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population middle of 1896. | Births. | Deaths. | • Annual Rate per 1000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | | Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under I year of age to 1000 Births. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
| WOOLWICH. | 41338 | 1283 | 860 | 30.5 | 20.4 | 4.26 | 179 | .. | 72 | 9 | 31 | 21 | .. | 2 | 1 | 35 | 87 | 174 |
| Paddington | 124838 | 3068 | 1947 | 24.2 | 15.3 | 2.52 | 320 | 1 | 103 | 22 | 65 | 49 | .. | 13 | 1 | 66 | 161 | 156 |
| Kensington | 170660 | 3719 | 2914 | 21.4 | 16.8 | 2.65 | 459 | .. | 173 | 40 | 70 | 99 | .. | 10 | 1 | 60 | 247 | 178 |
| Hammersmith | 104551 | 3007 | 1828 | 28.3 | 17.2 | 2.80 | 298 | .. | 62 | 21 | 52 | 62 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 85 | 149 | 179 |
| Fulham | 115008 | 4068 | 2057 | 34.8 | 17.6 | 3.59 | 419 | .. | 101 | 29 | 77 | 69 | .. | 9 | .. | 134 | 194 | 175 |
| Chelsea | 96657 | 2651 | 1850 | 26.9 | 18.8 | 3.94 | 388 | .. | 110 | 23 | 115 | 63 | .. | 10 | 1 | 66 | 179 | 168 |
| St. George Hanover Square.. | 80041 | 1407 | 1108 | 17.3 | 13.6 | 1.39 | 112 | .. | 32 | 11 | 24 | 15 | .. | 9 | .. | 20 | 104 | 149 |
| Westminster | 53477 | 1223 | 978 | 22.5 | 18.0 | 2.15 | 117 | .. | 18 | 10 | 20 | 25 | .. | 9 | .. | 35 | 122 | 170 |
| St. James Westminster | 22955 | 496 | 397 | 21.3 | 17.0 | 2.24 | 52 | .. | 31 | 3 | 2 | 3 | .. | 3 | .. | 10 | 44 | 149 |
| Marylebone | 141114 | 4416 | 2855 | 30.8 | 19.9 | 3.16 | 453 | .. | 195 | 26 | 74 | 70 | .. | 20 | .. | 68 | 280 | 141 |
| Hampstead | 75812 | 1462 | 916 | 19.0 | 11.9 | 1.83 | 141 | .. | 58 | 7 | 30 | 22 | .. | 7 | .. | 17 | 86 | 123 |
| St. Pancras | 241066 | 7040 | 4442 | 28.7 | 18.1 | 2.47 | 608 | .. | 133 | 37 | 99 | 128 | .. | 31 | .. | 180 | 474 | 168 |
| Islington | 337639 | 9924 | 5871 | 28.9 | 17.1 | 3.04 | 1043 | 1 | 275 | 37 | 255 | 247 | .. | 47 | 1 | 160 | 499 | 150 |
| Stoke Newington | 33615 | 841 | 434 | 24.6 | 127 | 2.35 | 80 | .. | 5 | 8 | 19 | 16 | .. | 5 | .. | 27 | 28 | 126 |
| Hackney | 213774 | 6435 | 3414 | 29.6 | 15.7 | 2.8l | 612 | .. | 95 | 36 | 103 | 147 | 1 | 37 | 1 | 192 | 306 | 146 |
| St. Giles | 38158 | 1064 | 737 | 27.4 | 19.0 | 2.29 | 89 | .. | 41 | 7 | 7 | 14 | .. | 4 | .. | 16 | 113 | 147 |
| St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 13003 | 214 | 214 | 16.2 | 16.2 | 2.28 | 30 | .. | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | .. | 3 | .. | 5 | 26 | 164 |
| Strand | 23820 | 570 | 550 | 23.5 | 22.7 | 2.44 | 59 | .. | 28 | 6 | 3 | 8 | .. | 1 | .. | 13 | 70 | 193 |
| Holborn | 30932 | 883 | 736 | 28.1 | 23.4 | 3.21 | 101 | 1 | 33 | .. | 12 | 27 | 1 | 5 | .. | 22 | 102 | 194 |
| Clerkenwell | 66195 | 2223 | 1393 | 33.7 | 20.7 | 3.78 | 255 | .. | 53 | 15 | 42 | 42 | .. | 15 | .. | 88 | 145 | 184 |
| St. Luke | 41478 | 1968 | 1059 | 467 | 25.1 | 3.82 | 161 | .. | 35 | 21 | 26 | 23 | .. | 4 | .. | 52 | 123 | 154 |
| London City | 31409 | 546 | 626 | 17.1 | 19.6 | 1.44 | 46 | .. | 6 | 7 | 11 | 7 | .. | 10 | .. | 5 | 51 | 137 |