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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
Finsbury 1912
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1912
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The Borough Council supplies drop tubes gratis for this purpose;
these have been found most useful. Formerly, before these tubes
were provided, some of the mothers were found to be merely
bathing the outside of the closed eyelids. Now, the eyelids are
separated, and, by the drop tubes, the lotion is applied directly to
the eyeball itself.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATES.
The number of Finsbury residents who died in 1912 was 1,599,
equivalent to a crude death rate for the whole Borough of 18.5 per
1,000 inhabitants living. The crude death rate for the whole of
London was 13.6 per 1,000, the corrected death rate 14.3 per
1,000.
The Finsbury crude death rate for previous years are given in
the attached table:—
| Year. | The Borough. | Clerkenwell. | St. Luke. | St. Sepulchre. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 21.4 | 20.1 | 23.5 | 19.1 |
| 1902 | 22.8 | 21.8 | 24.7 | 21.3 |
| 1903 | 20.2 | 19.0 | 22.3 | 19.7 |
| 1904 | 21.4 | 20.6 | 22.8 | 24.0 |
| 1905 | 19.3 | 18.1 | 21.1 | 26.3 |
| 1906 | 21.4 | 21.1 | 21.5 | 26.1 |
| 1907 | 19.1 | 17.3 | 21.8 | 26.6 |
| 1908 | 19.2 | 18.7 | 11.1 | |
| 1909 | 20.1 | 19.1 | 24.0 | |
| 1910 | 18.4 | 17.7 | 17.3 | |
| 1911 | 19.4 | 19.3 | 19.45 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 18.5 | 18.0 | 19.1 | 28.3 |
The death rates in St. Luke are generally higher, and in
Clerkenwell generally lower than the rates for the whole of the