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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 1911
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1911
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The following table of Deaths from Infectious Diseases per 1,000 persons living is compiled from the Registrar's General Report.
| Boroughs. | Per 1,000 Persons Living. | Deaths under 1 year to 1,000 Births. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births. | Deaths From | |||||||||||
| All Causes. | Enteric Fever. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping-cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years). | Phthisis. | ||||
| Crude. | 'Corrected. | |||||||||||
| COUNTY OF LONDON | 24.8 | 15.0 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.57 | 0.04 | 0.23 | 0.14 | 1.18 | 1.35 | 129 | |
| Paddington | 21.4 | 13.3 | 14.3 | 0.04 | — | 0.34 | 0.02 | 0.31 | 0.08 | 0.94 | 1.22 | 127 |
| Kensington | 18.9 | 13.7 | 14.7 | 0.02 | — | 0.55 | 0.01 | 0.31 | 0.10 | 0.85 | 0.93 | 133 |
| Hammersmith | 24.1 | 15.6 | 16.2 | 0.06 | — | 0.30 | 0.04 | 0.29 | 0.23 | 1.47 | 1.26 | 146 |
| Fulham | 26.9 | 14.4 | 15.0 | 0.05 | — | 0.42 | 0.05 | 0.18 | 0.18 | 1.39 | 1.46 | 125 |
| Chelsea | 19.2 | 15.5 | 16.0 | — | — | o.45 | 0.02 | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.83 | 1.45 | 109 |
| City of Westminster | 14.8 | 12.5 | 14.0 | o.o3 | — | 0.14 | 0.02 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 0.40 | 1.21 | 103 |
| St. Marylebone | 20.2 | 15.1 | 16.1 | 0.02 | — | 0.56 | 0.06 | 0.24 | 0.04 | 0.71 | 1.46 | 108 |
| Hampsiead | i4.9 | 9.6 | 10.9 | 0.02 | — | 0.16 | — | 0.04 | 0.20 | 0.26 | 0.6l | 78 |
| St. Pancras | 25.6 | i5.5 | 16.2 | 0.03 | — | 0.50 | 0.06 | 0.25 | 0.17 | 0.92 | 1.57 | 112 |
| Islington | 24.8 | 14.9 | 15.5 | 0.o4 | — | 0.40 | 0.06 | 0.21 | 0.16 | 1.12 | 1.24 | 127 |
| Stoke Newington | 20.7 | 13.6 | 0.02 | — | 0.55 | 0.06 | 0.36 | 0.06 | 0.55 | 1.09 | 102 | |
| Hackney | 23.5 | 15.0 | O.O4 | — | 0.67 | 0.05 | 0.26 | 0.09 | 0.88 | 1.40 | 119 | |
| Holborn | 19.3 | 15.7 | i6.9 | 0.06 | 0.31 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.69 | 2.08 | 115 | |
| Finsbury | 30.6 | 19.8 | 20.5 | 0.09 | — | 0.90 | 0.07 | 0.27 | 0.19 | 1.63 | 1.87 | 156 |
| City of London | 11.6 | 15.1 | 16.6 | — | — | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.52 | 1.60 | 124 |
| Shoreditch | 31.9 | 20.1 | o.oi | — | 1.15 | 0.05 | 0.29 | 0.22 | 2.00 | 170 | ||
| Bethnal Green | 18.2 | 18.3 | 0.02 | — | 0.04 | 0.38 | 0.16 | 1.94 | 151 | |||
| Stepney | 18.1 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 1.09 | 0.03 | 0.18 | 0.11 | 1.68 | 1.77 | 144 | ||
| Poplar | 31.0 | i8.9 | 19.5 | 0.09 | 0.01 | 1.39 | 0.06 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 1.95 | 1.32 | 157 |
| Southwark | 29.8 | i8.4 | 19.2 | 0.03 | — | 0.63 | 0.03 | o.34 | 0.16 | 1.56 | 1.71 | 144 |
| Bermondsey | 31.2 | i8.4 | 18.9 | O.O4 | — | 0.44 | 0.05 | 0.40 | 0.10 | 1.69 | 1.78 | 156 |
| Lambeth | 24.5 | 14.9 | 15.4 | 0.04 | — | 0.38 | 0.03 | 0.23 | 0.14 | 1.13 | 1.41 | 123 |
| Battersea | 26.1 | 15.3 | 0.02 | — | 0.67 | 0.02 | 0.22 | 0.12 | 1.33 | 1.33 | 124 | |
| Wandsworth | 21.6 | i2.0 | 12.6 | 0.03 | — | 0.74 | 0.03 | 0.22 | 0.11 | 0.94 | 0.89 | 122 |
| Camberwell | 24.5 | 14.8 | 0.02 | — | 0.03 | 0.17 | 0.10 | 1.06 | 1.34 | !°9 | ||
| Deptford | 27.5 | I5.6 | 16.4 | 0.02 | — | 0.63 | 0.06 | 0.34 | 0.14 | 1.57 | 1.27 | 142 |
| Greenwich | 24.8 | 14.7 | 15.0 | 0.03 | — | o.43 | 0.03 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 1.59 | 1.17 | 128 |
| Lewisham | 21.2 | 11.3 | 11.8 | o.o3 | — | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.17 | 0.79 | 0.64 | 104 |
| Woolwich | 12.8 | 13.7 | — | — | 0.23 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.84 | 1.34 | 97 | |
In this Table 0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0005; where
no death occurred, — is inserted.
* The Corrected death-rates represent the Crude death-rates multiplied by the respective
Factors for Correction for differences of sex and age constitution of population as in 1901.
(See Table , page .)