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 1907
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1907 including annual report on factories and workshops
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TABLE I. Name of District—Metropolitan Borough of Finsbury. For Whole District.
| Year. | Population estimated to middle of each Year. | Births. | Deaths under One Year of Age. | Deaths at all | Deaths in Public Institu-tions. | Deaths of non-residents registered in District. | Deaths of Residents registered beyond District. | Deaths at all Ages Nett. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ages. | Total. | |||||||||||
| Number.† | Rate.1 | Number. | Rate per 1.000 Births registered | Number. | Rate.* | Number. | Rate.* | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 1901 | 101,463 | 3,792 | 37.3 | 461 | 121.6 | 1,318 | 13.0 | 33 | 29 | 880 | 2,169 | 21.4 |
| 1902 | 100,487 | 3,624 | 36.0 | 558 | 153.9 | 1,411 | 14.0 | 40 | 35 | 907 | 2,283 | 22.7 |
| 1903 | 100,487 | 3,664 | 36.4 | 503 | 137.3 | 1,169 | 11.6 | 43 | 46 | 870 | 1,993 | 19.8 |
| 1904 | 98,958 | 3,603 | 36.4 | 522 | 144.9 | 1,174 | 11.9 | 59 | 55 | 965 | 2,084 | 21.1 |
| 1905 | 98,207 | 3,398 | 34.6 | 429 | 126.2 | 1,014 | 10.3 | 38 | 45 | 886 | 1,855 | 18.9 |
| 1906 | 97,466 | 3,464 | 35.5 | 474 | 136.8 | 1,032 | 10.6 | 37 | 32 | 1,020 | 2,020 | 20.7 |
| 1907 | 96,732 | 3,361 | 34.7 | 368 | 109.4 | 912 | 9.4 | 54 | 49 | 911 | 1,774 | 18.3 |
* Rates calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
† The numbers in this column include births at City of London Lying-in Hospital, not belonging to Finsbury (see p. 9).
Note.—The deaths included in Column 7 of this table are the whole of those registered during the year as having actually
occurred within the district. The deaths included in Column 12 are the number in Column 7, corrected by the subtraction
of the number in Column 10 and the addition of the number in Column 11.
By the term " Non-residents" is meant persons brought into the district on account of illness, and dving there- and by the terin
"Residents" is meant persons who have been taken out of the district on account of illness and have died elsewhere.
Area of Districts in acres 589 Total population at ail ages 101,463
(exclusively of area Number of inhabited houses, 9,820 At Census of 1901.
covered by water). Average number of persons per house, 10.9.