London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hampstead 1902
Report for the year 1902 of the Medical Officer of Health
This page requires JavaScript
The following table shews the Ward and Sex distribution of these illegitimate births:—
| Sex. | Ward 1 (Town). | Ward 2 (Belsize). | Ward 3 (Adelaide). | Ward 4 (Central) | Ward 5 (West End). | Ward 6 (Kilburn) | Ward 7 (Priory). | The whole Borough. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | 1 | l | l | — | l | 7 | 3 | 14 |
| F. | 4 | 5 | l | l | 6 | 5 | 3 | 25 |
| Total, both sexes. | 5 | 6 | 2 | l | 7 | 12 | 6 | 39 |
The illegitimate birth rate per 1000 births was 257.
The total number of births are distributed in the various Wards as
follows :—No. 1 or Town Ward, 192 ; No. 2 or Belsize Ward, 239 ;
No. 3 or Adelaide Ward, 103 ; No. 4 or Central Ward, 110 ; No. 5 or
West End Ward, 275; No. 6 or Kilburn Ward, 435 ; and No. 7 or
Priory Ward, 162.
Deaths.
The total deaths registered during the year amounted to 1199. Of
these, however, no less than 390 were of persons not belonging to the
Borough, while 95 residents of Hampstead died in outlying districts.
The total number of deaths therefore, amongst persons belonging
to Hampstead amounted to 904.
Table IV., page 68, affords all available information as to the
causes of deaths of persons belonging to the Borough.
The following Chart shews the number of deaths of persons
resident in, or belonging to, the Borough, occurring during each week
of 1902.
Death Rate.
The crude death rate was 14.3 per 1000 of the population, but the
true or corrected rate, obtained after substracting from the total
registered deaths the deaths of non-resident persons dying in Hampstead,
and adding the deaths of Hampstead residents who died outside the
district, was 10.7 per 1000 of the population, as compared with the rate
of 10.6 per 1000 of the population in 1901, and the average rate for the
years 1892—1901, which is 11.6.