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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

Islington 1904

Forty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington

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1904

Table: Table III.Showing theEstimated Populations, Areas, DensitiesandDeath-ratesofLondonand of the severalMetropolitan Boroughsin1904,arranged in order of Density.

Table III.

Showing theEstimated Populations, Areas, DensitiesandDeath-ratesofLondonand of the severalMetropolitan Boroughsin1904,arranged in order of Density.

Boroughs.Estimated Population, 1903.Area in Acres.(Density) Persons to each AcreDeath Rates.
All Causes.Zymotic Diseases.
Cols.12345
London County4,648,95074,83962.116.12.14
Woolwich123,4168,27614.914.32.40
Lewisham140,4017,01420.012.01.41
Greenwich101,6513,85226.414.42.26
Wandsworth257,4489,12928.213.41.73
City of London23,48267135.016.70.60
Hampstead86,6632,26538.310.20.66
Hammersmith117,4122,28651.415.72.53
Camberwell268,3844,48059.914.91.90
Stoke Newington52,44586360.813.31.13
Hackney226,2663,28868.814.92.13
City of Westminster177,3212,50270.913.50.87
Deptford113,5091,56272.716.12.46
Poplar169,9052,32773.018.63.35
Lambeth310,3594,08076.115.82.10
Kensington179,2362,29178.214.31.45
Battersea175,4652,16081.214.52.02
Bermondsey129,3971,50086.220.03.52
St. Pancras235,9362,69487.617.42.01
St. Marylebone130,3371,47288.516.21.51
Fulham152,4821,70389.515.42.49
Paddington146,9751,356108.313.81.56
Islington341,0443,092110.015.31.78
Chelsea74,329660112.616.51.49
Holborn57,161405141.118.51.80
Finsbury98,958589168.021.32.57
Bethnal Green130,207759171.519.32.95
Stepney303,7911,765172.119.42.84
Shoreditch117,033658177.820.43.20
Southwark207,9371,131183.820.13.13