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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 1910

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1910

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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 1910.

Corrected Death-rates of Metropolitan Boroughs after Distribution of Deaths in Public Institutions, &c.,as calculated by the Registrar-General for year 1910.

Death rate from all causes.
Average County of London12.7
Hampstead8.6
Lewisham9.6
Wandsworth10.2
Fulham10.5
Woolwich10.5
Stoke Newington11.0
Battersea11.3
City of Westminster11.4
Greenwich11.6
Hackney11.7
Paddington11.8
Kensington11.9
Camberwell12.1
*Hammersmith12.2
Lambeth12.5
Chelsea12.6
St. Marylebone12.8
Islington12.9
Stepney13.7
St. Pancras13.8
Deptford14.0
Holborn14.9
Poplar15.2
Bethnal Green15.3
City of London15.5
Southwark15.9
Shoreditch16.7
Finsbury17.6
Bermondsey17.7

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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 12.1, as I deduct the deaths of Non-Parishioners
which occurred at Nazareth House.