London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Fulham 1913

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1913

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

25
Table XV. gives the infantile death-rates of the
several wards of the borough.

Table: TABLE XV. Deaths under one year per 1,000 Births.

TABLE XV. Deaths under one year per 1,000 Births.

Ward.1903190419051906190719081909191019111912Average Ten Years 1902-19121913
Barons Court9818110888146917512270148113108
Lillie1381371471371511061221031288512596
Walham14218518316618415214015612491152117
Margravine144179153171136129133135154112145102
Munster1251401371421161201021031379112191
Hurlingham104159981509981764359599382
Sands End1211561681271071369410913897125102
Town76121105726464988151768160
The Borough1271521441331221151081071289412396

Text

Copy text to clipboard

The above table shows the great variation of
infant mortality in different parts of the borough, that
of Walham Ward, for instance, being nearly double that
of the Town Ward, while if smaller areas are compared
the variation is naturally more striking. If the report
in the appendix on the condition of Heckfield Place be
referred to, it will be seen that the average infant
mortality during the five years 1908-1912, of that slum
was 826 per 1,000 against 110 per 1,000 in the whole of
the borough, and last year in the area comprising
Heckfield Place, Walham Avenue, Rock Avenue, Lodge
Avenue and Cassidy Road, which contains 27 per cent,
of the population of Walham Ward, the infant mortality
was 199 per 1,000 against 69 per 1,000 in the remainder
of the Ward.