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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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128, which reveals an almost precisely similar reduction since 1902, when the figures were first "corrected."
| The Borough. | North Clerkenwell. | South Clerkenwell. | Finsbury (St. Luke). | St. Sepulchre. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of Infant Deaths | Infant Mortality | No. of Infant Deaths | Infant Mortality | No. of Infant Deaths | Infant Mortality | No. of Infant Deaths | Infant Mortality | No. of Infant Deaths | Infant Mortality | |
| 1901 | *533 | 163.8 | 158 | 149.2 | 124 | 139.6 | 172 | 137.0 | 6 | 162.1 |
| 1902 | 558 | 749 | 183 | 173.3 | 152 | 172.7 | 217 | 178.4 | 6 | 157.9 |
| 1903 | 503 | 159.1 | 163 | 153.8 | 125 | 142.2 | 210 | 176.5 | 5 | 151.5 |
| 1904 | 522 | 168.6 | 191 | 177.2 | 123 | 147.8 | 206 | 178.7 | 2 | 60.6 |
| 1905 | 429 | 148.6 | 146 | 1.82 | 98 | 121.7 | 178 | 165.5 | 7 | 33 3.4 |
| 1906 | 474 | 157.3 | 183 | 172.5 | 116 | 135.9 | 166 | 157.0 | 9 | 2195 |
| 1907 | 368 | 128.0 | 119 | 116.5 | 105 | 135.1 | 136 | 128.3 | 8 | 307.7 |
*The return for 1901 includes 73 infant deaths taking place in institutions outside the Borough
but belonging to Finsbury, and which c?nnot now be distributed in districts. Throughout
the table, births taking place in the City of London Lying-in Hospital, but not belonging
to Finsbury, have been excluded, and the births taking place in City Road Workhouse, &c.,
belonging to Finsbury, have been included.
It will be noted that the rates in the above table are higher than
those recorded on p. 21, which is due to the fact that the number of
births on which they are calculated excludes the births taking place in
the Lying-in Hospital in the Borough which do not from the point of
view of residence belong to it, and yet which, of course, furnish a
number of the infant deaths. This no doubt is the reason why the
Registrar-General has formerly based his calculation on the total
births, though in the table on p. 23, which is quoted from his report,
the outside births have been excluded.
But whichever way the figures be stated the conclusion must
inevitably be the same, namely, that there has been a substantial
reduction, indicating a great saving of life.