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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 1908
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1908 including annual report on factories and workshops
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The figures for the years since 1901 are given in Table G., and
it will be noted that the corrected rate of this year is 9 above last
year and 20 below that of 1906.
TABLE G. †
| The Borough. | North Clerkenwell. | South Clerkenwell. | 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 | 174.9 | 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 | 148.2 | 98 | 121.7 | 178 | 165.5 | 7 | 333.4 |
| 1906 | 474 | 157.3 | 183 | 172.5 | 116 | 135.9 | 166 | 157.0 | 9 | 219.5 |
| 1907 | 368 | 128.0 | 119 | 116.5 | 105 | 135.1 | 136 | 128.3 | 8 | 307.7 |
| Clerkenwell. | ||||||||||
| 1908 | 400 | 137.0 | Infant Deaths. | Infant Mortality | 163 | 150.1 | 1 | 34.5 | ||
| 236 | 131.0 | |||||||||
*The return for 1901 includes 73 infant deaths taking place in institutions outside the Borough
but belonging to Finsbury, and which cannot 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.
†Contains the Corrected Rates calculated by the Medical Officer.
The rates in the above table are in all cases higher than those in
Table F., the result of the corrections made, as already stated, in
the figures. These figures do not, however, invalidate the conclusions
drawn from the “crude” rates, viz., that whatever the causc,
apart from weather conditions, Finsbury is improving, so far, at
least, as regards infantile mortality.
The third Infantile Mortality Rate is that given by the RegistrarGeneral.
It also is a corrected rate, and serves for comparison with
other Metropolitan Boroughs This comparison has been made in
Table H. on page 27.