London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Finsbury 1904
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1904 including annual report on factories and workshops
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Finsbury, 1903 and 1904. Death Rates from all and Certain Causes in Houses or Tenements of several sizes.
| Size of Tenements. | Census Population, 1901. | All Causes. | Zymotics. | Phthisis. | Respiratory Disease (excluding Phthisis). | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death rate per 1000. 1903. | Death rate per 1000. 1904. | Death rate per 1000. 1903. | Death rate per 1000. 1904. | Death rate per 1000. 1903. | Death rate per 1000. 1904. | Death rate per 1000. 1903. | Death rate per 1000. 1904. | ||
| One-room tenement | 14,516 | 38.9 | 40.6 | 5.6 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 9.3 | 9.8 | |
| Two-room tenement | 31,482 | 22.6 | 21.9 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 5.3 | 4.9 |
| Three-room tenement | 21,280 | 11.7 | 14.7 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 3.4 |
| Four-room tenement and upwards of four rooms | 33,185 | 5.6 | 7.5 | 0.54 | 0.1 | 0.63 | 1.2 | 0.84 | 1.4 |
| Institutions1 | 1,000 | 16.0 | 28.0 | - | - | 7.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 8.0 |
| Deaths not traced†| - | 273 | 216 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 25 | 10 | 62 |
| The Borough | 101,463 | 19.6 | 21.1 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
* Institutions include Common Lodging Houses, Houseless Poor Asylum, House of Retreat, and other similar Institutions
(excluding of course, Hospitals, Infirmaries, &c.). The population is stated approximately only.
†These are deaths (not death-rates) returned as belonging to Finsbury, in which no address was furnished or the deaths
were not traceable at the addresses furnished.