Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1913
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Bronchitis, pneumonia and diarrhœa and enteritis are chiefly
accountable for the increase.
In column I, foot of Table I. of the appendix, will be found a
list of places where deaths of non-parishioners occurred in the district.
There were 21 such deaths in all, against 20 in 1912, and
22 in 1911.
6 such deaths occurred in the infirmary; 9 in River Thames
and Docks; I in an office; and 5 in the street.
534 persons belonging to this Borough died in outlying institutions,
against 538 in 1912, and 560 in 1911. The names of the
various places where the deaths occurred will be found in columns
2 and 3 at foot of Table I. of Appendix.
TABLE E.—Death-rates corrected for Age and Sex Constitution of the various Populations, 1912.
Area. | Factor for Correction for age and sex distribution. | Crude Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. 1913. | Corrected Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. 1913. | Comparative Mortality Figures. 1913. |
---|---|---|---|---|
England and Wales | 0·9790 | 13·7 | 13·4 | 1,000 |
London, County of | 1·0000 | 14·2 | 14·2 | 1,042 |
Paddington | 0·9941 | 13·4 | 13·4 | 942 |
Kensington | 0·9957 | 13·7 | 13·6 | 995 |
Hammersmith | 0·9884 | 13·9 | 13·8 | 997 |
Fulham | 1·0340 | 12·5 | 12·9 | 1,018 |
Chelsea | 0·9513 | 13·9 | 13·2 | 1,064 |
Westminster, City of | 1·0540 | 12·7 | 13·3 | 1·003 |
St. Marylebone | 1·0198 | 14·0 | 14·3 | 1,084 |
Hampstead | 1·0572 | 10·7 | 11·3 | 798 |
St. Pancras | 0·9971 | 15·2 | 15·2 | 1,119 |
Islington | 0·9749 | 15·1 | 14.8 | 1,073 |
Stoke Newington | 0·9512 | 13·6 | 12·9 | 885 |
Hackney | 1·0066 | 13·4 | 13·5 | 936 |
Holborn | 1·0034 | 14·6 | 14·7 | 1,180 |
Finsbury | 0·9887 | 18·3 | 18·1 | 1·427 |
City of London | 1·0419 | 15·2 | 15·8 | 1,078 |
Shoreditch | 1·0331 | 18·6 | 19·2 | 1,440 |
Bethnal Green | 1·0397 | 15·4 | 16·1 | 1,224 |
Stepney | 1·0433 | 14·9 | 15·6 | 1,221 |
Poplar | 0·9898 | 16·3 | 16·1 | 1,244 |
Southwark | 1·0060 | 17·4 | 17·6 | 1,291 |
Lambeth | 0·9804 | 14·3 | 14·0 | 1,003 |
Battersea | 1·0098 | 13·9 | 14·0 | 949 |
Wandsworth | 1·0045 | 10·6 | 10·6 | 786 |
Camberwell | 0·9883 | 13·7 | 13·6 | 979 |
Deptford | 0·9879 | 15·3 | 15·2 | 997 |
Greenwich | 0·9837 | 14·2 | 14·0 | 991 |
Lewisham | 0·9826 | 10·6 | 10·4 | 786 |
Woolwich | 1·0249 | 12·6 | 13·9 | 914 |
BERMONDSEY | 0·9976 | 17·9 | 17·8 | 1,288 |