Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Towns | Estimated Population middle of 1911. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1,000 Living. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping-cough. | Enteric Fever. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years of age). | Deaths of Children under one year of age to 1,000 Births. | Rate per cent, of Uncertified Deaths | |
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Births. | Deaths. | |||||||||||||
Stockport | 109,090 | 2,550 | 1,712 | 23.4 | 15.7 | 35 | 4 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 179 | 170 | 0.5 | |
Birkenhead | 131,33° | 3,748 | 2,048 | 28.6 | 15.6 | — | 23 | 4 | 25 | 31 | 9 | 215 | 134 | 0.7 |
Wallasey | 79,137 | 1,735 | 974 | 22.0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 80 | 108 | 0.4 | |
Liverpool | 747,627 | 22,506 | 14,882 | 30.2 | 20.0 | — | 311 | 128 | 123 | 235 | 32 | 1,458 | 154 | 2.1 |
Bootle | 70,122 | 2,093 | 1,233 | 29.9 | 17.6 | 1 | 22 | 4 | 10 | 25 | 3 | 128 | 148 | 3.8 |
St. Helens | 96,870 | 3,204 | 1,755 | 33.2 | 18.2 | _ | 69 | 14 | 7 | 37 | 23 | 207 | 160 | 3.6 |
Wigan | 89,340 | 2,434 | 1,592 | 27.3 | 17.9 | — | 60 | 4 | 11 | 35 | 33 | 208 | 193 | 0.1 |
Warrington | 72,376 | 2,041 | 1,117 | 28.3 | 15.5 | — | 13 | 4 | 10 | 32 | 5 | 127 | 146 | 3.8 |
Bolton | 181,202 | 4,126 | 2,865 | 22.8 | 15.9 | — | 62 | 22 | 42 | 15 | 23 | 338 | 163 | |
Bury | 58,665 | 1,204 | 928 | 20.6 | 15.9 | 25 | 10 | 4 | 12 | — | 56 | 164 | 2.2 | |
Manchester | 716,166 | 18,738 | 12,132 | 26.2 | 17.0 | — | 337 | 43 | 84 | 142 | 51 | 1,090 | 154 | 0.4 |
Salford | 231,641 | 6,281 | 3,847 | 27.2 | 16.7 | — | 98 | 20 | 54 | 37 | 18 | 348 | 149 | 0.3 |
Oldham | 147,751 | 3,49I | 2,596 | 23.7 | 17.6 | — | 66 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 229 | 160 | 0.2 |
Rochdale | 91,645 | 1,896 | 1,379 | 20.7 | 15.1 | — | 30 | 10 | 3 | 17 | 3 | 92 | 139 | 2.4 |
Burnley | 106,569 | 2,479 | 23.3 | 18.0 | — | 68 | 4 | 21 | 31 | 259 | 210 | 1.8 | ||
Blackburn | 133,160 | 2,857 | 2,140 | 21.5 | 16.1 | — | 30 | 28 | 54 | 195 | 188 | 1.4 | ||
Preston | 117,216 | 2,726 | 1,971 | 23.3 | 16.9 | — | 5 | 19 | 31 | 21 | 20 | 172 | 2.1 | |
Barrow-in-Furness | 1,698 | 798 | 12.5 | — | 3 | 4 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 40 | ||||
Huddersfield | 108,144 | 2,126 | 1,618 | 19.7 | 15.0 | — | 17 | 15 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 89 | 132 | 0.6 |
Halifax | 101,471 | 1,534 | _ | 7 | 8 | 22 | 26 | 11 | 123 | 0.6 | ||||
Bradford | 288,723 | 5,477 | 4,288 | 19 .0 | 14.9 | — | 9 | 50 | 96 | 44 | 195 | 138 | ||
Leeds | 445.983 | 10,597 | 7,280 | 23.8 | 16 .4 | — | 78 | 45 | 151 | 147 | 22 | 568 | 158 | 0.1 |
Dewsbury | 53,411 | 1,167 | 21.9 | 17.3 | — | 25 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 6l | 155 | — | |
Sheffield | 455,793 | 12,656 | 27.8 | 16.1 | — | 791 | 26 | 44 | 62 | 31 | 534 | 140 | ||
Rotherham | 62,711 | 1,818 | 1,016 | 29.1 | 16.3 | — | 56 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 112 | 157 | 1.5 | |
York | 82,407 | 1.953 | 1,100 | 23.8 | 13.4 | — | 9 | 4 | 7 | 25 | 6 | 67 | 113 | |
Hull | 278,968 | 7,965 | 28.6 | 16.7 | — | 101 | 14 | 21 | 100 | 55o | 155 | 0.7 | ||
Middlesborough | 105,124 | 3,260 | 2,036 | 31.1 | .9.4 | — | 79 | 7 | 27 | 78 | 8 | 146 | 169 | 0.7 |
Stockton-on-Tees | 52,175 | 1,539 | 861 | 29.6 | 16.5 | — | 26 | 4 | 8 | 26 | 6 | 55 | 133 | 0.7 |
West Hartlepool | 63,965 | 1,849 | 998 | 29.0 | 15.6 | — | 5 | — | 16 | 26 | 86 | 120 | 0.7 | |
Sunderland | 15,289 | 29.9 | 17.9 | — | 49 | 7 | 20 | 93 | 7 | 170 | 151 | 2.0 | ||
South Shields | 108,844 | 3,280 | 1,854 | 30.2 | 17.1 | — | 40 | 1 | 10 | 23 | 3 | 146 | 147 | |
Gateshead | 117,104 | 3,562 | 30.5 | 16.1 | — | 4 | 29 | 28 | 2 | 137 | 136 | 4.9 | ||
Newcastle-on-T yne | 267,162 | 7,089 | 4,291 | 26.6 | — | 125 | 14 | 37 | 10 | 225 | 136 | 0.3 | ||
Tynemouth | 59,oc8 | 908 | 28.4 | 15.4 | — | — | 6 | 18 | 5 | 46 | 122 | 1.8 | ||
Newport (Mon.) | 84,111 | 2,315 | 1,120 | 27.6 | 13.4 | — | 16 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 91 | 121 | 0.4 |
Cardiff | 182,729 | 4,740 | 2,555 | 26.0 | 14.0 | — | 7 | 15 | 37 | 53 | 6 | 247 | 135 | 0.0 |
Rhondda | 153,775 | 5,463 | 2,305 | 35.6 | 15.0 | — | 143 | 19 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 3510 | 164 | 0.5 |
Merthyr Tydfil | 81,293 | 1,260 | 31.1 | 15.5 | — | 7 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 150 | 152 | 0.4 | |
Swansea | 115,176 | 3,348 | 1,860 | 29.1 | 16.2 | — | 2 | 47 | 16 | 140 | 136 | 0.8 |