Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1903
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Table No. 13 ANALYSIS OF THE VITAL STATISTICS OF SEVENTY-SIX OF THE LARGEST ENGLISH TOWNS DURING 1903.
Towns. | Estimated Population middle of 1903. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1,000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Infectious 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 Infectious Diseases. | ||||||||||||||
76 Towns | 15,075,011 | 446,329 | 244,468 | 29.7 | 16.3 | 1.89 | 28,309 | 415 | 5,486 | 2,160 | 2,971 | 4,922 | 1,742 | 10,613 | 144 | 1.1 |
75 Provincial Towns | 10,461,199 | 315,423 | 172,359 | 30.2 | 16.5 | 1.93 | 20,143 | 402 | 3,432 | 1,798 | 2,219 | 3,291 | 1,346 | 7,655 | 149 | 1.5 |
London | 4,613,812 | 130,906 | 72,109 | 28.5 | 15.7 | 1.78 | 8,166 | 13 | 2,054 | 362 | 752 | 1,631 | 396 | 2,958 | 131 | 0.3 |
Croydon | 141,157 | 3,708 | 1,666 | 26.3 | 11.8 | 1,08 | 153 | 2 | 25 | 2 | 17 | 62 | 5 | 40 | 108 | ... |
Willesden | 127,077 | 4,059 | 1,535 | 32.0 | 12.1 | 1.97 | 249 | 1 | 84 | 13 | 10 | 69 | 8 | 64 | 117 | 0.8 |
Hornsey | 78,386 | 1,589 | 614 | 20.3 | 7.9 | 0.68 | 52 | ... | 14 | 1 | 9 | 21 | ... | 7 | 84 | ... |
Tottenham | 109,749 | 3,532 | 1,426 | 32.3 | 13.0 | 1.90 | 207 | ... | 78 | 4 | 18 | 58 | 9 | 40 | 124 | 0.7 |
West Ham | 281,894 | 9,479 | 4,291 | 33.7 | 15.3 | 2.65 | 746 | ... | 139 | 19 | 73 | 167 | 37 | 311 | 146 | 0.3 |
East Ham | 110,451 | 3,798 | 1,207 | 34.5 | 11.0 | I,62 | 177 | ... | 40 | 13 | 14 | 37 | 15 | 58 | 111 | 0.5 |
Leyton | 107,153 | 3,267 | 1,154 | 30.6 | 10.8 | 1.64 | 177 | ... | 39 | 13 | 27 | 43 | 12 | 43 | 103 | 1.3 |
Walthamstow | 106,290 | 3,495 | 1,177 | 33.2 | 11.2 | 1.91 | 201 | ... | 53 | 7 | 18 | 34 | 19 | 70 | 113 | O.2 |
Hastings | 66,194 | 1,208 | 851 | 18.3 | 12.9 | 0.69 | 45 | ... | 11 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 14 | 106 | 0.7 |
Brighton | 125,405 | 3,046 | 1,784 | 24.3 | 14.3 | 0.85 | 106 | ... | 6 | ... | 32 | 13 | 5 | 50 | 114 | 0.3 |
Portsmouth | 194,960 | 5,431 | 2,867 | 27.9 | 14.7 | 1.50 | 291 | ... | 17 | 27 | 75 | 34 | 23 | 115 | 114 | 1.0 |
Bournemouth | 63,132 | 1,119 | 762 | 17.8 | 12.1 | 0.40 | 25 | ... | ... | 1 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 81 | 0.3 |
Southampton | 110,120 | 3,102 | 1,513 | 28.2 | 13.8 | 1.31 | 145 | ... | 1 | 10 | 28 | 28 | 20 | 58 | 116 | ... |
Reading | 75,082 | 2,021 | 952 | 27.0 | 12.7 | 0.94 | 70 | ... | 6 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 4 | 26 | 121 | 1.7 |
Northampton | 89,863 | 2,187 | 1,272 | 24.4 | 14.2 | 1.54 | 140 | ... | 10 | 25 | 21 | 32 | 7 | 45 | 139 | 1.8 |
Ipswich | 68,818 | 1,943 | 1,046 | 28.3 | 15.2 | 1.41 | 97 | ... | 48 | ... | 8 | 11 | 5 | 25 | 140 | 1.1 |
Great Yarmouth | 51,851 | 1,422 | 939 | 27.5 | 18.2 | 2.59 | 134 | ... | 12 | 26 | 44 | 13 | 6 | 33 | 122 | ... |
Norwich | 114,351 | 3,179 | 1,737 | 27.9 | 15.2 | 1.13 | 129 | ... | 1 | 15 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 86 | 150 | 1.4 |
Plymouth | 112,022 | 2,847 | 1,844 | 25.5 | 16.5 | 1.16 | 130 | ... | 5 | 14 | 4 | 27 | 15 | 55 | 144 | 0.4 |
Devonport | 73,815 | 2,088 | 1,040 | 27.4 | 14.1 | 0.94 | 69 | ... | 15 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 26 | 118 | 0.1 |
Bristol | 338,895 | 9,257 | 4,825 | 27.4 | 14.3 | 1.07 | 364 | 3 | 11 | 50 | 118 | 67 | 21 | 94 | 116 | 0.5 |
Hanley | 63,205 | 2,199 | 1,178 | 34.9 | 18.7 | 3.08 | 194 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 77 | 16 | 9 | 78 | 173 | 2.6 |
Burton-on-Trent | 51,450 | 1,362 | 632 | 26.5 | 12.3 | 0.55 | 27 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 93 | 0.5 |
Wolverhampton | 96,947 | 2,944 | 1,502 | 30.5 | 15.5 | 1.97 | 190 | ... | 54 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 87 | 141 | 06 |
Walsall | 89,878 | 3,046 | 1,474 | 34.0 | 16.4 | 1.83 | 165 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 9 | 37 | 17 | 70 | 150 | 0.7 |
Hands worth | 57,557 | 1,460 | 597 | 25.4 | 10.4 | 0.76 | 44 | ... | 7 | 11 | 3 | 3 | ... | 20 | 100 | 0.2 |
West Bromwich | 66,558 | 2,299 | 1,116 | 34.6 | 16.8 | 2.36 | 156 | ... | 42 | 25 | 19 | 11 | 9 | 50 | 159 | 1.8 |
Birmingham | 533,039 | 16,897 | 9,449 | 31.8 | 17.8 | 2.33 | 1,230 | 12 | 193 | 141 | 136 | 93 | 67 | 588 | 159 | 2.3 |
Kings Norton | 63,717 | 1,753 | 633 | 27.5 | 10.0 | 0.75 | 48 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 98 | 2.1 |
Smethwick | 58,787 | 1,978 | 790 | 33.7 | 13.5 | 1,08 | 63 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 9 | 15 | 140 | 0.3 |
Aston Manor | 79,417 | 2,271 | 1,100 | 28.7 | 13.9 | 2.26 | 179 | 4 | 25 | 18 | 6 | 20 | 8 | 98 | 161 | 1.5 |
Coventry | 72,684 | 2,160 | 1,172 | 29.8 | 16.2 | 1.99 | 144 | 1 | 57 | 4 | 32 | 15 | 1 | 34 | 122 | 1.5 |
Leicester | 220,272 | 6,015 | 3,122 | 27.4 | 14.2 | 1.46 | 319 | 21 | 74 | 15 | 28 | 36 | 14 | 131 | 160 | 1.2 |
Grimsby | 65,772 | 1,889 | 931 | 23.8 | 14.2 | 1.94 | 127 | ... | ... | 9 | 9 | 27 | 19 | 63 | 167 | 1.6 |
Nottingham | 245,985 | 6,945 | 4,152 | 28.3 | 16.9 | 2.01 | 495 | 2 | 96 | 35 | 64 | 95 | 35 | 168 | 165 | 0.7 |
Derby | 118,707 | 3,215 | 1,609 | 27.0 | 13.6 | 0.87 | 102 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 32 | 7 | 45 | 128 | 0.7 |