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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Finsbury, 1903-1907. Death Rates from All and Certain Causes in Houses or Tenements of Several. Sizes.
| Size of Tenements. | Census Population, 1901, 101,463‡ | All Causes. | Infectious Diseases (Zymotic). | Phthisis. | Respiratory Disease (excluding Phthisis). | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000 | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | Death rate per 1000. | ||
| 1903. | 1904. | 1905 | 1906. | 1907. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905 | 1906. | 1907. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905 | 1906. | 1907. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905. | 1906. | 1907. | ||
| One-room tenement | 14,516 | 38.9 | 40.6 | 32.7 | 39.0 | 328 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 3.4 | 6.4 | 3.2 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 9.3 | 9.8 | 6.4 | 8.3 | 8.0 |
| Two-room tenement | 31,482 | 22.6 | 21.9 | 19.5 | 22.5 | 18.5 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 5.5 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 2. i | 2.3 | 2.4 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 5.6 |
| Three-room tenement | 21,280 | 11.7 | 14.7 | 12.3 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1 .4 | 1.2 | 2. 3 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.4 | |
| Four room tenement and upwards of four rooms | 33.185 | 5.6 | 7.5 | 6.6 | 6.4 | 6.2 | o.54 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.63 | 1.2 | 0.81 | 0.93 | 0.7 | 0 .84 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.6 | |
| Institutions* | 1,000 | 16.0 | 28.0 | 8.0 | 33.0 | 63.0 | - | - | - | 3.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | - | 14. 0 | 16.0 | 4.0 | 8.0 | 6.0 | 15.0 | ||
| Deaths not traced† | — | 273 | 21.6 | 268 | 185 | 177 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 22 | 4 | 13 | 25 | 28 | 38 | 33 | 10 | 62 | 69 | 23 | 49 |
| The Borough Death Rates | - | 19.8 | 21.1 | 18.9 | 20.7 | 18.3 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.06 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 5.0 |
*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 four 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.