Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1908
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Death-Rates per 1000 living. | ||||||||||
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All Causes | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | En tern-Fever | Phthisis | ||||||
Boroughs. | Before Distribution | After Distribution' | Before Distribution | After Distribution | Before Distribution | AfterDistribution | Before Distribution | After Distribution | Before Distribution | After Distribution |
County of London | 14.0 | 13.8 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 1.30 | 1.32 |
Paddinqton | 13.6 | 12.4 | — | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.10 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.98 | 1.01 |
Kensington | 14.8 | 12.9 | — | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.15 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 1.62 | 0.98 |
Hammersmith | 13.9 | 14.0 | — | 0.09 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 1.16 | 1.36 |
Folham | 11.5 | 12.4 | 0.32 | 0.10 | 0.54 | 0.18 | 0.11 | 0.06 | 1.06 | 1.14 |
Chelsea | 21.7 | 14.5 | — | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.16 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 2.49 | 1.27 |
City of Westminster | 14.1 | 12.6 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.67 | 1.33 |
St. Marylebone | 13.2 | 14.2 | 0.01 | 0.10 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.67 | 1.16 |
Hampstead | 10.6 | 8.5 | 0.53 | 0.07 | 0.48 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 1.57 | 0.78 |
St. Pancras | 15.2 | 14.7 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 1.56 | 1.51 |
Islington | 12.8 | 13.2 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.16 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 1.45 | 1.24 |
Stoke Xewington | 9.0 | 12.3 | — | 0.09 | — | 0. 02 | — | 0.07 | 0.56 | 1.07 |
Hackney | 13.6 | 13.2 | 0.21 | 0.13 | 0.31 | 0.19 | 0.07 | 0.03 | 1.31 | 1.22 |
Holborn | 19.2 | 16.4 | — | 0.13 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 1.37 | 2.11 |
Finbbury | 9.7 | 18.6 | — | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.03 | 0.12 | 0.89 | 2.15 |
City of London | 49.8 | 17.7 | 0.05 | — | 0.36 | 0.10 | 0.41 | — | 2.66 | 1.79 |
Shoreditch | 16.4 | I7.4 | 0.02 | 0.25 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.02 | 0.09 | 2.11 | 2.00 |
Bethnal Green | 16 .9 | 17.1 | — | 0.30 | 0. 07 | 0.21 | 0.04 | 0.10 | 1.83 | 1.61 |
Stepney | 17.6 | 16.4 | 00.1 | 0.17 | 0.14 | 0.24 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 1.37 | 1.56 |
Poplar | 16.2 | 15.9 | 0.05 | 0.2 I | 0.06 | 0.19 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 1.55 | 1.34 |
Southwark | 13.9 | 16.3 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.09 | O.15 | 0. 02 | 0.03 | 0.95 | 1.88 |
Bermondsey | 15.1 | 18.8 | 0.02 | 0.19 | 0.02 | 0.18 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 1.69 | 1.89 |
Lambeth | 14.4 | 13.3 | 0.11 | 0.13 | 0.17 | O.14 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 1. 41 | 1.45 |
Battersea | 12.1 | 12.2 | 0.02 | 0.13 | 0.02 | 0.12 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 1.10 | 1.19 |
Wandsworth | 11.0 | 11.6 | 0.22 | 2.07 | 0.20 | 0.13 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.98 | 0.96 |
Camberwell | 13.8 | 12.7 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.02 | O.14 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 1 .64 | 1.12 |
Deptford | 10.5 | 13.8 | 0.48 | 0.06 | 0.49 | 0.08 | 0.13 | 0.07 | 0.70 | 1.16 |
Greenwich | 16.5 | 12.6 | 0.41 | 0.05 | 0.55 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.08 | 1.67 | 1.10 |
Lewisham | 11.7 | 11.0 | 0.47 | 0.07 | 0.52 | 0.27 | 0.03 | o.03 | 0.83 | 0.85 |
Woolwich | 10.5 | 11.4 | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.04 | 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 1.10 | 1.20 |
* The Deaths "before Distribution" are those actually registered in the
several Boroughs without any correction whatever.