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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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 1 year of age to icoo Births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
Shoreditch | 122265 | 4387 | 2656 | 35.9 | 21.4 | 4.31 | 536 | 1 | 143 | 39 | 74 | 126 | .. | 17 | .. | 130 | 232 | 180 |
Bethnal Green | 129151 | 4869 | 2902 | 37.8 | 22.1 | 4.25 | 557 | .. | 153 | 35 | 75 | 160 | .. | 20 | 1 | 113 | 236 | 170 |
Whitechapel | 70886 | 3241 | 1655 | 41.6 | 20.6 | 2.62 | 210 | .. | 51 | 0 | 48 | 36 | .. | 9 | 1 | 45 | 193 | 141 |
St. George-in-the-East | 47589 | 2098 | 1187 | 44.5 | 24.5 | 3.26 | 158 | .. | 28 | 18 | 30 | 17 | .. | 8 | .. | 60 | 124 | 154 |
Limehouse | 58347 | 2042 | 1357 | 35.2 | 22.9 | 3.99 | 236 | .. | 62 | 15 | 49 | 61 | .. | 3 | .. | 46 | 133 | 176 |
Mile End Old Town | 111226 | 4300 | 2252 | 39.0 | 199 | 3.61 | 409 | .. | 84 | 34 | 97 | 83 | 16 | .. | 95 | 156 | 157 | |
Poplar | 169379 | 6011 | 3550 | 35.7 | 20.6 | 3.70 | 637 | .. | 147 | 33 | 105 | 158 | .. | 26 | .. | 108 | 302 | 176 |
St. Saviour Southwork | 25276 | 790 | 587 | 30.9 | 22.8 | 3.23 | 83 | .. | 17 | 5 | 18 | 19 | .. | 1 | .. | 23 | 80 | 213 |
St. George Southwark | 60301 | 2213 | 1472 | 36.9 | 24.0 | 4.24 | 260 | .. | 77 | 17 | 40 | 55 | .. | 7 | .. | 64 | 165 | 181 |
Newingtor | 121191 | 4276 | 2527 | 35.7 | 20.5 | 3.35 | 410 | 1 | 98 | 29 | 71 | 66 | .. | 18 | .. | 127 | 245 | 184 |
St. Olave South walk | 11673 | 419 | 261 | 35.4 | 22.0 | 4.81 | 57 | .. | 11 | 5 | 9 | 13 | .. | 2 | .. | 17 | 26 | 153 |
Bermondsey | 85508 | 3203 | 1873 | 37.6 | 21.6 | 3 78 | 328 | .. | 75 | 20 | 73 | 97 | .. | 11 | .. | 52 | 176 | 160 |
Rotherhithe | 40432 | 1346 | 834 | 33.6 | 20.3 | 3.82 | 157 | .. | 43 | 10 | 26 | 36 | .. | 11 | .. | 31 | 90 | 159 |
Lambeth | 296036 | 9579 | 5084 | 32.9 | 16.9 | 2.42 | 729 | 2 | 182 | 65 | 139 | 140 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 175 | 489 | 136 |
Battersea | 165864 | 5358 | 2985 | 33.0 | 17.7 | 3.64 | 614 | .. | 179 | 32 | 82 | 138 | .. | 16 | 1 | 106 | 242 | 177 |
Wandsworth | 188008 | 4825 | 2749 | 20.5 | 14.3 | 2.71 | 520 | .. | 151 | 29 | 40 | 158 | .. | 21 | .. | 121 | 187 | 150 |
Camberwell | 253975 | 7662 | 4602 | 30.7 | 17.8 | 3.59 | 928 | .. | 206 | 52 | 260 | 196 | 1 | 37 | .. | 176 | 398 | 156 |
Greenwich | 176293 | 5723 | 3323 | 33.0 | 18.5 | 372 | 666 | 2 | 193 | 51 | 140 | 127 | .. | 32 | 1 | 120 | 281 | 157 |
Lee | 38714 | 861 | 526 | 22.6 | 13.4 | 1.88 | 74 | .. | 14 | 8 | 17 | 18 | .. | 2 | .. | 15 | 50 | 141 |
Lewisham | 83795 | 2130 | 1216 | 26.2 | 14.3 | 2.56 | 218 | .. | 39 | 7 | 75 | 28 | .. | 9 | .. | 60 | 89 | 136 |
Plumstead | 59610 | 1950 | 936 | 33.6 | 15.4 | 3.54 | 214 | .. | 59 | 18 | 55 | 35 | .. | 4 | .. | 33 | 82 | 133 |