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 1904
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ANALYSIS OF THE VITAL STATISTICS OF
DISTRIBUTION OF DEATHS OCCURRING IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS DURING 1904 .
Boroughs. | Estimated Population middle of 1904. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Infectious Diseases. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Ill-defined Fever. | Diarrhœa. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Childrenunder 1 year of age to1,000 Births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Infectious Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
County of London | 4,648,950 | 129,335 | 74,555 | 27.9 | 16.1 | 2.14 | 9,906 | 25 | 2,256 | 365 | 723 | 1,495 | - | 286 | 6 | 4,750 | 7,526 | 144 |
Paddingtcn | 146,975 | 3,295 | 2,017 | 22.5 | 13.8 | 1.56 | 229 | 2 | 49 | 10 | 19 | 16 | - | 10 | - | 132 | 176 | 136 |
Kensington | 179,236 | 3,450 | 2,558 | 19.3 | 14.3 | 1.45 | 256 | 1 | 68 | 5 | 17 | 19 | - | 6 | 1 | 139 | 257 | 150 |
Hammersmith | 117,412 | 3,146 | 1,840 | 26.9 | 15.7 | 2.53 | 296 | - | 105 | 6 | 22 | 36 | - | 5 | - | 121 | 161 | 152 |
Fulham | 152,482 | 4,905 | 2,346 | 32.3 | 15.4 | 2.49 | 379 | - | 64 | 4 | 23 | 58 | - | 6 | - | 224 | 217 | 153 |
Chelsea | 74,329 | 1,547 | 1,225 | 20.9 | 16.5 | 1.49 | 110 | - | 25 | 6 | 5 | 26 | - | 2 | - | 46 | 135 | 156 |
City of Westminster | 177,321 | 2,898 | 2,396 | 16.4 | 13.5 | 0.87 | 153 | - | 23 | 9 | 7 | 18 | - | 10 | 2 | 84 | 268 | 125 |
St. Marylebone | 130,337 | 3,948 | 2,100 | 30.4 | 16.2 | 1.51 | 197 | - | 50 | 9 | 14 | 13 | - | 3 | - | 108 | 218 | 94 |
Hampstead | 86,663 | 1,431 | 884 | 16.6 | 10.2 | 0.66 | 57 | - | 17 | 2 | 4 | 8 | - | 5 | - | 21 | 72 | 113 |
St. Pancras | 235,936 | 6,116 | 4,102 | 26.0 | 17.4 | 2.01 | 474 | - | 127 | 27 | 38 | 82 | - | 17 | - | 183 | 443 | 150 |
Islington | 341,044 | 8,892 | 5,243 | 26.2 | 15.4 | 1.75 | 596 | 1 | 181 | 35 | 29 | 84 | - | 18 | - | 248 | 526 | 129 |
Stoke Newington | 52,445 | 1,139 | 697 | 21.8 | 13.3 | 1.13 | 59 | - | 7 | 3 | 8 | 12 | - | 3 | - | 26 | 90 | 114 |
Hackney | 226,266 | 6,159 | 3,366 | 27.3 | 14.9 | 2.13 | 481 | - | 76 | 20 | 55 | 55 | - | 26 | - | 249 | 314 | 142 |
Holborn | 57,161 | 1,628 | 1,054 | 28.6 | 18.5 | 1.80 | 102 | 2 | 42 | - | 4 | 9 | - | 4 | - | 41 | 163 | 109 |
Finsbury | 98,958 | 3,593 | 2,100 | 36.4 | 21.3 | 2.57 | 254 | 3 | 58 | 17 | 16 | 28 | - | 9 | - | 123 | 236 | 140 |
City of London | 23,482 | 346 | 390 | 14.8 | 16.7 | 0.60 | 14 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 7 | - | - | - | 4 | 37 | 104 |
Shoreditch | 117,033 | 3,744 | 2,378 | 32.1 | 20.4 | 3.20 | 374 | 2 | 81 | 13 | 18 | 63 | - | 8 | - | 1809 | 254 | 188 |
Bethnal Green | 130,207 | 4,526 | 2,500 | 34.9 | 19.3 | 2.95 | 383 | 7 | 90 | 13 | 47 | 52 | - | 6 | 1 | 162 | 180 | 157 |
Stepney | 303,791 | 11,204 | 5,876 | 37.0 | 19.4 | 2.84 | 859 | 3 | 174 | 33 | 90 | 126 | - | 30 | - | 409 | 652 | 155 |
Poplar | 169,905 | 5,543 | 3,149 | 32.7 | 18.6 | 3.35 | 568 | 3 | 91 | 24 | 84 | 81 | - | 13 | - | 22 | 295 | 154 |
Southwark | 207,937 | 6,557 | 4,169 | 31.6 | 20.1 | 3.13 | 649 | 1 | 191 | 12 | 26 | 118 | - | 18 | 1 | 282 | 489 | 174 |
Bermondsey | 129,397 | 4,192 | 2,582 | 32.5 | 20.0 | 3.52 | 456 | - | 136 | 18 | 16 | 69 | - | 16 | 1 | 200 | 274 | 172 |
Lambeth | 310,359 | 3,059 | 4,884 | 29.3 | 15.8 | 2.10 | 650 | - | 164 | 16 | 34 | 109 | - | 11 | - | 316 | 448 | 138 |
Battersea | 175,465 | 4,849 | 2,541 | 27.7 | 14.5 | 2.02 | 353 | - | 50 | 10 | 14 | 59 | - | 13 | - | 198 | 248 | 147 |
Wandsworth | 257,448 | 6,928 | 3,435 | 27.0 | 13.4 | 1.73 | 448 | - | 106 | 14 | 42 | 59 | - | 11 | - | 228 | 288 | 122 |
Camberwell | 268,384 | 7,242 | 3,992 | 27.1 | 14.9 | 1.90 | 509 | - | 110 | 17 | 21 | 99 | - | 16 | - | 246 | 368 | 144 |
Deptford | 113,509 | 3,255 | 1,823 | 28.8 | 16.1 | 2.46 | 278 | - | 76 | 10 | 16 | 49 | - | 3 | - | 124 | 161 | 145 |
Greenwich | 101,651 | 2,629 | 1,455 | 25.9 | 14.4 | 2.26 | 229 | - | 40 | 3 | 11 | 56 | - | 9 | - | 110 | 135 | 142 |
Lewisham | 140,401 | 3,579 | 1,681 | 25.6 | 12.0 | 1.41 | 198 | - | 25 | 7 | 12 | 37 | - | 2 | - | 115 | 126 | 123 |
Woolwich | 123,416 | 3,535 | 1,763 | 28.7 | 14.3 | 2.40 | 295 | - | 29 | 16 | 29 | 56 | - | 6 | - | 159 | 205 | 135 |