London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Finsbury 1908
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1908 including annual report on factories and workshops
This page requires JavaScript
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 Ages. Total. | Deaths in Public Institutions. | Deaths of nonresidents registered in District. | Deaths of Residents registered beyond District. | Deaths at all Ages Nett. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number, † | Rate.* | Number. | Rate per 1,000 Births registered | Number. | Rate.* | N umber. | 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 | I53.9 | 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 |
| 1908 | 96,007 | 3,474 | 36.2 | 400 | 115.1 | 931 | 9.7 | 64 | 55 | 891 | 1,767 | 18.4 |
140
* 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. 8).
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 dying there; and by the term
" Residents" is meant persons who have been taken out of the district on account of illness and have died elsewhere.
Area of District in acres
(exclusively of area
covered by water).
589
Total population at ail ages 101,468
Number of inhabited houses, 9,820
Average number of persons per house, 10.9.
At Census of 1901