Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1904
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DEATH-RATES (CORRECTED) IN METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS DURING 1904 PER 1,000 PERSONS LIVING.
Births. | All Causes. | Principal Epidemic Diseases. | Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Pyrexia (origin uncertain). | Diarrhœa. | Phthisis. | Deaths under one year to 1 ,000 Births registered. | |
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County of London | 27.9 | 16.1 | 2.14 | 0.01 | 0.49 | 0.08 | 0.16 | 0.32 | ... | 0.06 | 0.00 | 1.02 | 1.62 | 144 |
WEST— | ||||||||||||||
Paddington | 22.5 | 13.8 | 1.56 | 0.01 | 0.27 | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0.11 | ... | 0.07 | ... | 0.90 | ||
Kensington | 19.3 | 14.3 | 1.45 | 0.01 | 0.38 | 0.10 | 0.11 | ... | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.78 | 1.44 | 150 | |
Hammersmith | 26.9 | 15.7 | 2.53 | ... | 0.91 | 3.05 | 0.19 | 0.31 | ... | 0.04 | ... | |||
Fulham | 32.3 | 15.4 | 2.49 | ... | 0.42 | 0.03 | 0.15 | 0.38 | ... | ... | 1.47 | 1.43 | 153 | |
Chelsea | 20.9 | 16.5 | 1.49 | ... | 0.34 | 0.08 | 0.35 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.62 | 1.82 | 156 | |
City of Westminster | 16.4 | 13.5 | 0.87 | ... | 0.13 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.10 | ... | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.48 | 1.52 | 125 |
North— | ... | |||||||||||||
St. Marylebone | 30.4 | 16.2 | 1.51 | ... | 0.38 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.10 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.83 | 1.68 | 94 |
Hampstead | 16.6 | 10.2 | 0.66 | ... | 0.20 | 0.05 | 0.09 | ... | 0.06 | ... | 0.24 | 0.83 | 113 | |
St. Pancras | 26.0 | 17.4 | 2.01 | ... | 0.54 | 0.11 | 0.16 | 0.35 | ... | ... | 0.78 | 1.88 | 150 | |
Islington | 26.1 | 15.4 | 1.75 | 0.00 | 0.53 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.25 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 0.73 | 1.55 | |
Stoke Newington | 21.8 | 13.3 | 1.13 | ... | 0.13 | 0.06 | 0.23 | ... | 0.06 | ... | 0.50 | 114 | ||
Hackney | 27.3 | 14.9 | 2.13 | ... | 0.34 | 0.09 | 0.24 | 0.24 | ... | 0.12 | ... | 1.10 | 1.39 | 142 |
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Holborn | 28.6 | 18.5 | 1.80 | 0.04 | 0.74 | ... | 0.16 | ... | 0.07 | ... | 2.86 | 109 | ||
Finsbury | 36.4 | 21.3 | 2.57 | 0.03 | 0.59 | 0.17 | 0.16 | 0.28 | ... | 0.09 | ... | 1.25 | 2.39 | 140 |
City of London | 14.8 | 16.7 | 0.60 | ... | ... | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.30 | ... | ... | ... | 0.17 | 1.58 | 104 |
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Shoreditch | 32.1 | 20.4 | 3.20 | 0.02 | 0.69 | 0.11 | 0.15 | ... | 0.07 | ... | 1.62 | 2.18 | 188 | |
Bethnal Green | 34.9 | 19.3 | 2.95 | 0.05 | 0.69 | 0.14 | 0.36 | 0.40 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 1.25 | 2.16 | 157 |
Stepney | 37.0 | 19.4 | 2.84 | 0.01 | 0.57 | 0.30 | 0.42 | ... | 0.10 | ... | 1.38 | 2.12 | 155 | |
Poplar | 32.7 | 18.6 | 3.37 | 0.02 | 0.54 | 0.14 | 0.50 | 0.48 | ... | 0.08 | ... | 1.61 | 1.74 | 154 |
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Southwark | 31.6 | 20.1 | 3.13 | 0.00 | 0.92 | 0.06 | 0.13 | 0.57 | ... | 0.09 | ... | 1.36 | 2.36 | 174 |
Bermondsey | 32.5 | 20.0 | 3.52 | ... | 1.05 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.53 | ... | 0.12 | ... | 1.55 | 2.12 | 172 |
Lambeth | 29.3 | 15.8 | 2.10 | ... | 0.53 | 0.05 | 0.11 | 0.35 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 1.02 | 1.45 | 138 |
Battersea | 27.7 | 14.5 | 2.02 | ... | 0.34 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.34 | ... | 0.07 | ... | 1.13 | 1.42 | 147 |
Wandsworth | 27.0 | 13.4 | 1.73 | ... | 0.41 | 0.05 | 0.16 | 0.19 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.88 | 1.12 | 122 |
Camberwell | 27.1 | 14.9 | 1.90 | ... | 0.41 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.37 | ... | 0.06 | ... | 0.92 | 1.37 | 144 |
Deptford | 28.8 | 16.1 | 2.46 | ... | 0.67 | 0.09 | 0.14 | 0.43 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 1.10 | 1.42 | 145 |
Greenwich | 25.9 | 14.4 | 2.26 | ... | 0.39 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.55 | ... | 0.09 | ... | 1.09 | 1.33 | 142 |
Lewisham | 25.6 | 12.0 | 1.41 | ... | 0.18 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.26 | ... | 0.01 | ... | 0.82 | 0.90 | 123 |
Woolwich | 28.7 | 14.3 | 2.40 | ... | 0.24 | 0.13 | 0.24 | 0.45 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 1.29 | 1.67 | 135 |
N.B.-0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.005; where no death occurred, ... is inserted.
The above table is taken from the Registrar-General's Annual Summary, and the rates for Lambeth Borough differ slightly from those given in this Report.
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