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 1905
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1905 including annual report on factories and workshops
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| Size of Tenements. | CensusPopulation 1901. | All Causes | Zymotics | Respiratory Disease (excluding Phthisis). | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death per 1000. 1903. | Death per 1000 1904. | Death per 1000. 1905. | Death per 1000 1903. | Death per 1000 1904. | Death per 1000 1905. | Death per 1000 1903. | Death per 1000. 1904. | Death per 1000. 1905. | Death per 1000 1903. | Death per 1000 1904. | Death per 1000. 1905. | ||
| One-room tenement | 14,516 | 389 | 40.6 | 32.7 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 9.3 | 9.8 | 6.4 |
| Two-room tenement | 31,482 | 22.6 | 21.9 | 19.5 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 5.2 |
| Three-room tenement | 21,280 | 11.7 | 14.7 | 12.3 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 2.8 |
| Four-room tenement and up-wards of four rooms | 33,185 | 5 6 | 7.5 | 6.6 | 0.51 | 0.1 | 0.69 | 0.63 | 1.2 | 0.81 | 0.84 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| Institutions" | 1,000 | 16.0 | 28.0 | 8.0 | ... | ... | ... | 7.0 | 5.0 | ... | 4.0 | 8.0 | 6.0 |
| Deaths not traced ‡ | ... | 273 | 216 | 268 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 13 | 25 | 28 | 10 | 62 | 69 |
| The Borough | 101,463 ‡ | 19.6 | 21.1 | 18.2 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.06 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 |
° 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, or for special reasons the deaths were not visited.
† For the purposes of this Table it has been necessary to use the Census Population (1901), for all three of the years included
in the Table. It should not, however, be forgotten that the population is declining, and the Death Rates for each year in
this Table are, therefore, approximate only.