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Boroughs.
Deaths under
1 year to
1,000 births.
County of London
105
Lewisham
10.4
78
Wandsworth
10.6
88
Hampstead
11.3
73
Stoke Newington
12.9
82
Fulham
12.9
96
Woolwich
13 0
79
Chelsea
13.2
90
City of Westminster
13.3
96
Paddington
13.4
100
Hackney
13.6
99
Camberwell
13.6
106
Kensington
13.6
112
Hammersmith
13.8
103
Greenwich
14.0
103
Battensea
14.0
111
Lambeth
14.0
102
St. Marylebone
14.3
91
Holborn
14.7
104
Is ington
14.8
107
Deptford
15.2
112
St. Pancras
15.2
92
Stepney
15 6
112
City of London
15.8
96
Bethnal Green
16.1
118
Poplar
16.1
112
Southwark
17.6
115
Bermondsey
17.8
132
Finsbury
18.1
138
Shoreditch
19.2
155
It will be seen that there is a considerable rise in the deathrate
since 1912, when it was abnormally low. The rise has been
greatest in North Peckham, with St. George's and Dulwich following
and fairly close behind.
This local increase only reflects that in the rest of the County
of London, and as one would suppose is dependent on a general
cause —the weather—the deaths from diarrhœa, bronchitis, and
pneumonia, combining in their increase to swamp the decrease
that is shown in so many other forms of illness, and to which I
shall presently refer to in detail.
The deaths of infants under one year were many more than in
last year, there being 738, as compared with 551, an increase of 187.
The proportion to the 1,000 births was consequently raised from
85.8 to 110·3, so that we arrive to pretty much the same position as
in 1911, when the summer was, on the whole, much warmer and
drier than 1912. As in previous years I again set out the table,
14.2
Death-rate from all
causes per 1,000
living (corrected).