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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 1909

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1909

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Table: Corrected Death-rates of Metropolitan Boroughs after Distribution of Deaths- in Public Institutions, &c., as calculated by the Registrar-General for year 1909.

Corrected Death-rates of Metropolitan Boroughs after Distribution of Deaths- in Public Institutions, &c., as calculated by the Registrar-General for year 1909.

Death rate from all causes.
Average County of London14.7
Hampstead10.1
Lewisham10.8
Stoke Newington11.1
Greenwich12.4
Wandsworth12.5
Fulham12.6
Woolwich12.8
Hackney13.1
Paddington13.8
Camberwell13.9
Battersea14.0
Deptford14.3
Kensington14.4
Lambeth14.5
Islington14.6
City of Westminster14.7
*Hammersmith14.9
Chelsea15.0
St. Pancras15.5
St. Marylebone15.6
Stepney16.0
Poplar16.8
Holborn16.8
Bethnal Green17.0
Southwark17.5
Bermondsey19.2
Finsbury19.9
Shoreditch20.0
City of London22.3

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The calculation of the Registrar-General is not made on the same figures
as mine.
* 1 give the death rate of Hammersmith as 14.1, as 1 deduct the deaths of Non-Parishioners
which occurred at Nazareth House.