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Hammersmith 1910

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

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Table: The following table of Deaths from Infectious Diseases is compiled from the Registrar's General Report.

The following table of Deaths from Infectious Diseases is compiled from the Registrar's General Report.

Boroughs.Population estimated to the middle of 1910.Deaths fromDeaths under 1 year of Age.
Births.All causes.Principal Epidemic Diseases.Small-poxMeasles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping-cough.Typhus.Enteric Fever.Pyrexia† (Origin uncertain).Diarrhoea.Phthisis.
COUNTY OF LONDON4,872,702114,87061,7565,559-1,9802144341,363-19641,3685,55511,809
West.
Paddington153,0043,0841,796164—697932—4—43128296
Kensington184,6353,2172,190141—5311632—5—34142340
Hammersmith127,4133,0451,549170—7072226—4—41132302
Fulham181,2824,3031,907204-_6571460-2-56170462
Chelsea75,4571,38295049-19-412-2-1287140
City of W'stmnstr167,2332,5541,89378—2141018—6—19186215
North.
St. Marylebone125, 1952,3311,600116-287944-6-22137252
Hampstead95,7291,34082244-152511-3-85680
St. Pancras237,7925,7203,261330-140172196-4-52304582
Islington353,3568,2894.529432_1681133124-17178397777
Stoke Newington54,83898460031-11127-2-85063
Hackney239,9795,2982,797202—665861—10—52259520
Central.
Holborn53,1421,02279249-14-416-5-10105105
Finsbury94,5782,8241,656182-6642136-4150160347
City of London.17,1322272648——1—2-2—32915
East
Shoreditch114,3873,6131,905217-8441446-8-61170526
Bethnal Green131,5794,2082,010192-5992035-18-51188517
Stepney314,3799,2584,303414-1031229114—15-1414101,037
Poplar172,4325,1112,609259-42122184—13-87234605
South.
Southwark211,8325,8733,360427-22693560-7-90368682
Bermondsey127,2384,0062,240310-_145141943-4-85223503
Lambeth327,0747,3444,091322-_122222654-18-80382691
Battersea188,2224,4832,120209-_7471251-7157194434
Wandsworth305,8386,9803,102185-_43111370-9-39261545
Camberwell286,0586,6573,439308—136102270-9—61309629
Deptford119,6423,0041,667176—5931148—5—50142367
Greenwich112,9352,4321,306158—4831057—3—37106261
Lewisham164,8993,4391,585100—12122029-3-2490274
Woolwich135,4222,8421,41382—2212425—1117136242

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The Births in this table have been corrected by distributing those which occurred away from home to the
boroughs in which the mothers had resided. In 1.357 cases the residence was outside the County of London, and
these cases have been excluded from this table. With regard to Deaths, all those of persons in, or on the way to.
Hospitals and other Public Institutions, as well as those of persons under treatment in surgical homes, or dying by
accident or otherwise in the streets, have been distributed, as far as practicable, to the boroughs in which the
deceased had previously resided. The deaths of 2,331 London residents who died outside the County of London in
Metropolitan Workhouses, Hospitals, and Lunatic and Imbecile Asylums have been similarly distributed. Of the
deaths registered in London the previous residence was outside the county in 3.184 cases, and these have been
excluded from the table. † Called Simple Continued Fever previous to 1901.