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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

Hammersmith 1908

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1908

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Table: Corrected Death-Rates of Metropolitan Boroughs after Distribution of Deaths in Public Institutions &c., and after corrections for variations in sex and age, constitution of the several populations as calculated by the Registrar-General.

Corrected Death-Rates of Metropolitan Boroughs after Distribution of Deaths in Public Institutions &c., and after corrections for variations in sex and age, constitution of the several populations as calculated by the Registrar-General.

Death Rate from all causes.
Average County of London14.5
Hampstead9.6
Lewisham11.4
Woolwich12.1
Wandsworth12.2
Fulham12.9
Greenwich12.9
Stoke Newington12.9
Battersea13 .1
Camberwell13.1
Paddington13.2
Hackney13.7
Islington13.7
Lambeth13.7
Kensington13.9
City of Westminster14.2
Deptford14.5
Hammersmith14.5 *
Chelsea15.0
St. Maryebone15.1
St. Pancras15.4
Poplar16.3
Southwark17.0
Stepney17.1
Bethnal Green17.3
Holborn17.6
Shoreditch18.3
Bermondsey19.2
Finsbury19.3
City of London19.4

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The calculation of the Registrar-General is not made on the same figures as mine.
* I give the death rate of Hammersmith as 14.2 as i deduct the deaths of Non-Parishoners which
occurred at Nazareth House.