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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

Battersea 1900

Report upon the public health & sanitary condition of Battersea during the year1900

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Deaths and Death-Rates (contd.)
II

Table: TABLE F.

TABLE F.

Name of DistrictOut of every 100 Total Families or Separate Occupiers, the Number Occupying Tenements of Fewer than 5 Rooms wasOut of every 100 Total Families or Separate Occupiers, the following Number Occupied Tenements ofPercentage of Domestic indoor Servants to Families or Separate Occupiers.
1 Room.2 Rooms.3 Rooms.4 Rooms
City of London621520171037.6
Battersea62915201813.1
Bermondsey76152420176.6
Bethnal Green84192624155.8
Camberwell56914171615.3
Chelsea692121171055.2
Deptford57813162015.4
Finsbury8526331798.2
Fulham68814252118.6
Greenwich55713152024.5
Hackney601015191617.9
Hammersmith601017191419.3
Hampstead4261414881.4
Holborn78272816722.3
Islington711624181315.5
Kensington55152012880.0
Lambeth631417171518.1
Lewisham314691236.2
Paddington651520201050.2
Poplar73111823218.1
St Marylebone73262613851.4
St. Pancras792429161016.9
Shoreditch85252819135.7
Southwark83212621157.8
Stepney81222620138.8
Stoke Newington49813161227.8
Wandswort4247151635.2
Westminster City of64182315865.8
Woolwich57714171914.4
County of London661520181324.5

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The following Table 11. classifies according to age, sex,
cause of deaths, &c., those registered in the Metropolis outside
Battersea. Zymotic Diseases contributed fifty-seven deaths
most of these occurring in the hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board. Deaths from violence numbered twenty-six
compared with twenty-seven during the preceding year; and
those from Phthisis and other Tubercular Diseases forty-three
compared with forty-nine during 1899.