Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1908
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Table No. 30. ANALYSIS OF THE VITAL STATISTICS OF THE SEVENTY-SIX GREAT TOWNS, each of which, as at present constituted, contained more than 50,000 Inhabitants at the Census of 1901.
Towns. | Population estimated to the middle of 1908. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1,000 Living | Deaths of Children under one year of age to 1,000 Births. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Births, | Deaths. | Principal Infectious Diseases. | |||||
LONDON | 4,795.757 | 30.434 | 17,615 | 23.6 | 13. 7 | 1.25 | 123 |
Aston Manor | 84,256 | 489 | 257 | 21.6 | 11.4 | 1.14 | 139 |
Birkenhead | 119,830 | 875 | 442 | 27.2 | 13.7 | 0.58 | 126 |
Bournemouth | 70,801 | 314 | 210 | 16.5 | 11.0 | 0. 74 | 83 |
Birmingham | 558.357 | 3. 958 | 2,185 | 26.4 | 14.6 | 1.44 | 145 |
Blackburn | 135,961 | 799 | 622 | 21.9 | 17.0 | 2.68 | 219 |
Bolton | 185.358 | 1,102 | 711 | 22. 1 | 14. 3 | 1.24 | 162 |
Bootle | 68,248 | 520 | 319 | 28.4 | 17.4 | 2. 13 | 144 |
Bradford | 292,136 | 1.491 | 1.174 | 19 .0 | 15. 0 | 0.82 | 158 |
Brighton | 129,967 | 690 | 480 | 19 .8 | 13. 8 | 0.44 | 100 |
Bristol | 372.785 | 2,096 | 1,265 | 21.0 | I2.6 | 0.70 | 121 |
Burnley | 105,100 | 760 | 482 | 26.9 | 17.1 | 1.78 | 214 |
Burton-on-Trent | 53.936 | 282 | 165 | 19.5 | 11. 4 | 0.83 | 135 |
Bury | 59,064 | 324 | 269 | 20.4 | 17.0 | 1.76 | 185 |
Barrow-in-Furness | 62,312 | 470 | 209 | 28.1 | 12.5 | o.54 | 130 |
Cardiff | 191,466 | 1.350 | 654 | 26.3 | 12.7 | 0.66 | 121 |
Coventry | 78,889 | 637 | 325 | 30. 1 | 15.3 | 0.70 | 113 |
Croydon | 157.698 | 915 | 528 | 21.'6 | 12.5 | 1.17 | 137 |
Derby | 127.583 | 852 | 465 | 24. 9 | 13.6 | 1. 20 | 121 |
Devonport | 81.525 | 503 | 276 | 20.7 | 13. 4 | 1. 42 | 109 |
East Ham Great Yarmouth | 142.976 53.152 | 840 399 | 349 200 | 21. 9 28.0 | 9.1 14. 0 | 1.20 1.47 | 101 138 |
Grimsby | 71,800 | 561 | 318 | 29. 1 | I6.5 | 2 .74 | 209 |
Gateshead | 128,393 | 974 | 505 | 28.3 | 14.6 | 1.34 | 151 |
Handsworth | 68,051 | 384 | 179 | 21.0 | 9.8 | 0. 76 | 96 |
Hanley | 67,998 | 570 | 299 | 31.2 | 16.4 | 1•59 | 174 |
Halifax | 111,018 | 524 | 437 | 17.6 | 14.7 | 0.87 | 145 |
Hastings | 67,817 | 244 | 181 | 13.4 | 9 .9 | 0.11 | 66 |
Hornsey | 92,713 | 372 | 189 | 14.9 | 7. 6 | 0 .28 | 48 |
Huddersfield | 94.776 | 576 | 469 | 22.6 | 18. 4 | 3.27 | 170 |
Hull | 271,137 | 2,024 | 1.254 | 278 | 172 | 204 | '59 |
Ipswich | 73.852 | 467 | 268 | 23.6 | 14.4 | 0.96 | 116 |
Kings Norton | 78,608 | 452 | 187 | 214 | 89 | 1.32 | 86 |
Leeds | 477.107 | 2,960 | 1.936 | 23.1 | 15.1 | 1. 02 | 144 |
Leicester | 240,172 | 1.353 | 979 | 21.0 | 15.2 | 3. 55 | 177 |
Liverpool | 753.203 | 5.972 | 3,666 | 29.5 | 18.1 | 0.85 | 158 |
Leyton | 125.815 | 811 | 322 | 24.0 | 9.5 | 0.69 | 83 |
Manchester | 649,251 | 4.569 | 3.134 | 26.2 | 18.0 | 2.13 | 172 |