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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: Table Showing the Distribution of Infant Mortality Throughout London since 1902, according to the Registrar General.

Table Showing the Distribution of Infant Mortality Throughout London since 1902, according to the Registrar General.

Borough.1Infant Mortality Rate, 1902-1906.Infant Mortality Rate, 1907.
Shoreditch167150
Finsbury159130
Bermondsey156123
Southwark153138
Poplar152124
Bethnal Green151138
Stepney144117
Kensington140128
Hammersmith140117
Fulham140122
Deptford136108
Chelsea135122
Lambeth134120
St. Pancras132108
Holborn132131
Battersea131114
Camberwell131115
St. Marylebone130101
Greenwich129100
Hackney128112
Islington125116
City of London12194
Paddington118109
Wandsworth11899
Woolwich116112
City of Westminster115102
Stoke Newington113100
Lewisham10990
Hampstead9069

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* The Boroughs are placed in order of Infant Moitality Rate, 1902-1906.
Of the 368 deaths of infants which took place in 1907, 100,
or 27 per cent., occurred in Institutions; 23 took place in Poor
Law Institutions, 75 in Hospitals, and 2 in Holloway Prison.
This by no means implies that the children had careful nursing
and attention during their last illness, for in many instances they
were not taken to the Hospital until in a dying condition, and in
some instances they arrived at the Hospital dead. Inquests