Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham and report of the Public Analyst for the year 1904
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Table 12.
Death Bates
Boroughs | Per 1000 Persons Living. | Deaths under 1 year to 1000 Girths registered | |||||||||||
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Deaths from | |||||||||||||
All Causes | Principal Epidemic Diseases | Small.Pox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Whooping.Cough | Typhus Fever | Enteric Fever | Pyrexia (Origin uncertain) | Diarrhoea | Phthisis | ||
County of London | 16.1 | 214 | o.o1 | 0.49 | 008 | 0.16 | 0.32 | _ | 0 06 | 000 | 102 | 1.62 | 144 |
West. | |||||||||||||
Paddington | 13.8 | 1.56 | 001 | 0.27 | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0.11 | _ | 0.07 | _ | 0 .90 | 1.20 | 136 |
Kensington | 14.3 | 1. 45 | 0.01 | 0.38 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.11 | _ | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.78 | 1.44 | 150 |
Hammersmith | 15.7 | 2.53 | — | 0.91 | 0.05 | 0.19 | 0.31 | — | 0.04 | — | 1.03 | 1.38 | 152 |
Fulham | 15.4 | 2.49 | _ | 0.42 | 0.03 | 0.15 | 0.38 | _ | 0.04 | — | 1.47 | 1.43 | 153 |
Chelsea | 16.5 | 1.49 | _ | 0.34 | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.35 | _ | 0.03 | _ | 0.62 | 1.82 | 156 |
City of Westminster | 13.5 | 0.87 | — | 0.13 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.10 | — | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.48 | 1.52 | 125 |
North. | |||||||||||||
St. Marylebone | 16.2 | 1.51 | — | 0 .38 | 0.07 | 0.11 | 0.10 | — | 0.02 | — | 0.83 | 1.68 | 94 |
Hampstead | 10.2 | 0.66 | — | 0 .20 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.09 | — | 0.06 | — | 0.24 | 0.83 | 113 |
St. Panoras | 17.4 | 2.01 | — | 0.54 | 0.11 | 0.16 | 0.35 | — | 0.07 | — | 0.78 | 1.88 | 150 |
Islington | 15.4 | 1.75 | 0.00 | 0.53 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.25 | — | 0.05 | — | 0.73 | 1.55 | 129 |
Stoke Newington | 13.3 | 1.13 | — | 0.13 | 0.06 | 0.15 | 0.23 | — | 0.06 | — | 0.50 | 1.72 | 114 |
Hackney | 14.9 | 2.13 | — | 0.34 | 0.09 | 0.24 | 0.24 | — | 0.12 | — | 1.10 | 1.39 | 142 |
Central. | |||||||||||||
Holborn | 18.5 | 1.80 | 0.04 | 0.74 | — | 0.07 | 0.16 | — | 0.07 | — | 0.72 | 2.86 | 109 |
Finsbury | 21.3 | 2.57 | 0.03 | 0. 59 | 0.17 | 0.16 | 0.28 | — | 0.09 | — | 1.25 | 2.39 | 140 |
City of London | 16.7 | 0.60 | — | — | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.30 | — | — | — | 0.17 | 1.58 | 104 |
East. | |||||||||||||
Shoreditch | 20.4 | 3.20 | 0.02 | 0.69 | 0.11 | 0.15 | 0.54 | _ | 0.07 | — | 1.62 | 2.18 | 188 |
Bethnal Green | 19.3 | 2.95 | 0.05 | 0.69 | 0.14 | 0.36 | 0.40 | — | 0.05 | 0.01 | 1.25 | 2.16 | 157 |
Stepney | 19.4 | 2.84 | 0.01 | 0.57 | 0.11 | 0.30 | 0.42 | — | 0.10 | — | 1.33 | 2.12 | 155 |
Poplar | 18.6 | 3.37 | 0.02 | 0.54 | 0.14 | 0.50 | 0.48 | — | 0.08 | — | 1.61 | 1.74 | 154 |
South. | |||||||||||||
Southwark | 20.1 | 3.13 | 0.00 | 0.92 | 0.06 | 0.13 | 0.57 | _ | 0.09 | 0.00 | 1.36 | 2.36 | 174 |
Bermondsey | 20.0 | 3.52 | — | 1.05 | 0.14 | 0.12 | 0.53 | — | 0.12 | 0.01 | 1.55 | 2.12 | 172 |
Lambeth. | 15.8 | 2.10 | _ | 0.53 | 0.05 | 0.11 | 0.35 | _ | 0.04 | _ | 1.02 | 1.45 | 138 |
Battersea | 1.45 | 2.02 | — | 0.34 | 0.06 | 008 | 0.34 | — | 0.07 | —. | 1.13 | 1. 42 | 147 |
Wandsworth | 134 | 1.73 | _ | 0. 41 | 0.05 | 0.16 | 0.19 | _ | 0.04 | _ | 0.88 | 1.12 | 1.22 |
Camberwell | 14.9 | 1.90 | 0.41 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.37 | - | 0.06 | _ | 0.92 | 1.37 | 144 | |
Deptford | 16.1 | 2. 46 | _ | 0.67 | 009 | 014 | 043 | _ | 003 | _ | 1.10 | 1.42 | 145 |
Greenwich | 14. 4 | 2.26 | _ | 0.39 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.55 | _ | 0.09 | _ | 1.09 | 1.33 | 142 |
Lewisham | 12.0 | 1.40 | — | 0.16 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.27 | — | 0.01 | — | 0.81 | 0.84 | 122 |
Woolwich | 14.3 | 2. 40 | 0.24 | 0.13 | 0.24 | 0.45 | — | 0.05 | 1.29 | 1.67 | 135 | ||
In this Table 0 00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.005; where no death occurred, — is inserted. Originally termed Simple Continued Fever. |