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 1909
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Boroughs. | Estimated Population middle of 1909. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Infectious Diseases. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Ill-defined Pyrexia. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1,000 Births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Infectious Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
County of London | 4,833,938 | 116,559 | 67,632 | 24.2 | 140 | 131 | 6,285 | 2 | 2,324 | 383 | 605 | 1,246 | – | 146 | 2 | 1,577 | 6,337 | 108 |
Paddington | 151,955 | 3,120 | 1,956 | 20.6 | 12.9 | 0.91 | 136 | – | 36 | 14 | 10 | 36 | – | 4 | – | 36 | 164 | 100 |
Kensington | 183,683 | 3,362 | 2,440 | 18.4 | 13.3 | 1.00 | 183 | – | 58 | 9 | 19 | j 40 | – | 8 | – | 49 | 176 | 113 |
Hammersmith | 125,704 | 2,995 | 1,791 | 23.9 | 14.3 | 1.67 | 210 | – | 80 | 11 | 23 | /i 7 | – | 5 | – | 44 | 137 | 120 |
Fulham | 176,406 | 4,307 | 2,113 | 24.5 | 12. 0 | 1.57 | 276 | – | 74 | 10 | 40 | J.Q | – | – | 99 | 205 | 108 | |
Chelsea | 75,249 | 1,391 | 1,084 | 18.5 | 14.4 | 1.00 | 75 | – | 24 | 6 | 15 | ty 1 3 | – | 2 | – | 15 | 109 | 107 |
City of Westminster | 168,883 | 2,730 | 2,212 | 16.2 | 13.1 | 0.63 | 106 | 1 | 25 | 18 | 18 | 1 j TO | – | 7 | – | 16 | 225 | 95 |
St. Marylebone | 126,027 | 2,595 | 1,836 | 20.6 | 14.6 | 0.83 | 105 | – | 8 | 9 | Ay | – | 1 | – | 90 | 170 | 99 | |
Hampstead | 94,185 | 1,328 | 839 | 14.1 | 8.9 | 0.52 | 50 | – | 14 | 4 | 5 | 18 | – | 5 | – | 4 | 57 | 75 |
St. Pancras | 237,422 | 5,609 | 3,510 | 23.7 | 14.8 | 0.97 | 230 | – | 105 | 17 | 27 | 30 | –_ | 6 | – | 45 | 382 | 102 |
Islington | 351,202 | 8,320 | 4,913 | 23.8 | 14.0 | 1.22 | 423 | – | 199 | 26 | 30 | 86 | – | 13 | – | 60 | 430 | 101 |
Stoke Newington | 54,423 | 1,025 | 612 | 18.9 | 11.3 | 0.63 | 34 | – | 10 | 3 | 2 | – | 1 | – | 4 | 45 | 80 | |
Hackney | 237,601 | 5,416 | 2,988 | 22 .9 | 12.6 | 0.93 | 220 | – | 57 | 10 | 19 | 51 | – | 6 | – | 77 | 289 | 102 |
Holborn | 53,802 | 976 | 836 | l8.2 | 15.6 | 0.85 | 45 | – | 14 | 3 | 3 | J * I5 | – | 1 | – | 9 | 110 | 102 |
Finsbury | 95,289 | 2,810 | 1,829 | 29.6 | 19.2 | 2.36 | 224 | – | 85 | 11 | 14 | 51 | – | 3 | – | 60 | 211 | 131 |
City of London | 18,193 | 247 | 368 | 13.6 | 23. 0 | 0.72 | 13 | – | 6 | – | – | J 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 | 39 | 113 |
Shoreditch | 114,802 | 3,632 | 2,178 | 31.7 | 19.0 | 2.87 | 328 | – | 130 | 9 | 22 | 4 72 | – | 6 | – | 89 | 200 | 140 |
Bethnal Green | 131,316 | 4,132 | 2,201 | 316 | 16.8 | 1.99 | 260 | – | 79 | 25 | 17 | / JO | – | 4 | – | 95 | 202 | 129 |
Stepney | 312,525 | 9,506 | 4,759 | 35.0 | 15.3 | 1.68 | 526 | 1 | 236 | 26 | 51 | 6q | – | 6 | – | I137 | 521 | 119 |
Poplar | 171,965 | 5,192 | 2,787 | 30. 3 | 16.3 | 2.37 | 405 | – | 156 | 23 | 20 | y 84 | – | 13 | – | 109 | 221 | 129 |
Southwark | 211,125 | 5,969 | 3,528 | 28.3 | 16.8 | 1.67 | 350 | – | 127 | 14 | 33 | 57 | – | 6 | – | 113 | 377 | 110 |
Bermondsey | 127,569 | 4,014 | 2,388 | 32.3 | 18.8 | 2.74 | 348 | – | 200 | 15 | 9 | – | 2 | – | 67 | 227 | 138 | |
Lambeth | 324,188 | 7,578 | 4,544 | 23.4 | 14.1 | 1.19 | 387 | – | 104 | 27 | 58 | jj 8c | – | 9 | 1 | 103 | 455 | 109 |
Battersea | 186,036 | 4,447 | 2,416 | 24.0 | 13.0 | .129 | 2 39 | – | 90 | 8 | 22 | – | 7 | – | 49 | 227 | 107 | |
Wandsworth | 297,646 | 7,005 | 3,524 | 23.6 | 11.9 | 0.96 | 286 | – | 111 | 14 | 27 | u3 6q | – | 6 | 1 | 58 | 275 | 86 |
Camberwell | 283,022 | 6,689 | 3,776 | 23.7 | 13.4 | 1.08 | 306 | – | 105 | 17 | 43 | uy c9 | – | 5 | _– | 84 | 337 | 100 |
Greenwich | 111,014 | 2,481 | 1,350 | 22.4 | 12.2 | 1.03 | 114 | – | 38 | 9 | 7 | 20 | – | 4 | – | 36 | 110 | 100 |
Lewisham | 160,749 | 3,529 | 1,656 | 22.0 | 10.3 | 0.57 | 93 | – | 6 | 15 | 21 | 20 | – | 2 | – | 29 | 128 | 74 |
Woolwich | 133,374 | 2,947 | 1,587 | 22.0 | 11.9 | 1.02 | 137 | — | 55 | 19 | 26 | 15 | – | 3 | — | 19 | 160 | 82 |