Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1908
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Analysis of the Vital Statistics of the Metropolitan Boroughs, and the City of London, after Distribution of Deaths occurring in Public Institutions, during the year 1908:
Boroughs. | Estimated Population, middle of 1908. | Births. | Deaths. | Deaths from Principal Infectious Diseases. | Annual Rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1000 births. | |||||||||||||||||
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Annual rate per 1,000 Living. | Principal Infectious Diseases. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Ill-defined Pyrexia. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | ||||||||||||
Deaths. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Births. | Crude. | Correct d | |||||||||||||||||||||
County of London | 4,795,757 | 122,898 | 67,353 | 6,599 | 25.2 | 13.8 | 14.5 | 1.35 | ... | 0.31 | 0.11 | 0.15 | 0.20 | ... | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.53 | 1.32 | 113 | ||||
Paddington | 150,923 | 3,384 | 1,897 | 133 | 22.1 | 12.4 | 13.2 | 0.87 | ... | 0.23 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.07 | ... | 0.03 | ... | l.01 | 103 | |||||
Kensington | 182,752 | 3,565 | 2,390 | 169 | 19.2 | 12.9 | 13.9 | 0.92 | ... | 0.17 | 0.05 | 015 | 0.04 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.48 | 0.98 | 119 | ||||
Hammersmith | 124,012 | 3,204 | 1,759 | 137 | 25.4 | 14.0 | 14.5 | 1.09 | ... | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.15 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.59 | 1.26 | 120 | ||||
Fulham | 171,562 | 4,710 | 2,155 | 277 | 27.0 | 12.4 | 12.9 | 1.59 | ... | 0.41 | 0.10 | 0.18 | 0.19 | ... | 0.06 | ... | 0.65 | 1.14 | 116 | ||||
Chelsea | 75,049 | 1,558 | 1,106 | 90 | 20.4 | 14.5 | 15.0 | 1.18 | ... | 0.16 | 0.10 | 0.16 | 0.22 | ... | 0.07 | ... | 0.47 | 1.27 | 107 | ||||
City of Westminster | 170,545 | 2,900 | 2,191 | 102 | 16.7 | 12.6 | 14.2 | 0.58 | ... | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.05 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.24 | 1.23 | 102 | ||||
St. Marylebone | 126,867 | 2,652 | 1,831 | 110 | 20.6 | 14.2 | 15.1 | 0.85 | ... | 0.19 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.10 | ... | 0.5 | ... | 0.30 | 1.16 | 101 | ||||
Hampstead | 92,654 | 1,400 | 799 | 39 | 14.9 | 8.5 | 9.6 J | 0.40 | ... | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.05 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 0.13 | 0.78 | 69 | ||||
St. Pancras | 237,075 | 5,918 | 3,547 | 255 | 24.6 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 1.06 | ... | 0.19 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 0.29 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.37 | 1.51 | 107 | ||||
Islington | 349,091 | 8,782 | 4,682 | 353 | 24.7 | 13.2 | 13.7 | 1.01 | ... | 0.23 | 0.09 | 0.16 | 0.16 | ... | 0.05 | ... | 0.32 | 1.24 | 102 | ||||
Stoke Newington | 54,015 | 1,084 | 677 | 45 | 19.7 | 12.3 | 12.9 | 0.82 | ... | 0.18 | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.11 | ... | 0.07 | ... | 0.35 | 1.07 | 92 | ||||
Hackney | 235,253 | 5,580 | 3,145 | 365 | 23.3 | 13.2 | 13.7 | 1.52 | ... | 0.31 | 0.13 | 0.19 | 0.18 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.68 | 1.22 | 115 | ||||
Holborn | 54,466 | 1,086 | 906 | 59 | 19.6 | 16.4 | 17.6 | 1.07 | ... | 0.20 | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.14 | ... | 0.09 | ... | 0.42 | 2.11 | 113 | ||||
Finsbury | 96,007 | 3,038 | 1,816 | 205 | 31.1 | 18.6 | 19.3 | 2.09 | ... | 0.45 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.26 | ... | 0.12 | ... | 0.97 | 2.15 | 133 | ||||
City of London | 19,252 | 292 | 346 | 8 | 14.9 | 17.7 | 19.4 | 0.40 | ... | 0.15 | ... | 0.10 | 0.05 | ... | ... | ... | 0.10 | 1.79 | 92 | ||||
Shoreditch | 115,227 | 3,744 | 2,042 | 245 | 32.0 | 17.4 | 18.3 | 2.09 | ... | 0.44 | 0.25 | 0.11 | 0.20 | ... | 0.09 | ... | 1.00 | 2.00 | 139 | ||||
Bethnal Green | 131,066 | 4,341 | 2,275 | 329 | 32.6 | 17.1 | 17.3 | 2.48 | ... | 0.78 | 0.30 | 0.21 | 0.32 | ... | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.77 | 1.61 | 132 | ||||
Stepney | 310,706 | 10,124 | 5,176 | 800 | 32.1 | 16.4 | 17.1 | 2.53 | ... | 0.84 | 0.17 | 0.24 | 0.41 | ... | 0.04 | ... | 0.83 | 1.56 | 130 | ||||
Poplar | 171,516 | 5,492 | 2,746 | 394 | 31.5 | 15.9 | 16.3 | 2.26 | ... | 0.47 | 0.21 | 0.19 | 0.42 | ... | 0.08 | ... | 0.89 | 1.34 | 123 | ||||
Southwark | 210,442 | 6,237 | 3,488 | 378 | 29.2 | 16.3 | 17.0 | 1.76 | ... | 0.36 | 0.11 | 0.15 | 0.23 | ... | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.88 | 1.88 | 131 | ||||
Bermondsey | 127,910 | 4,230 | 2,438 | 299 | 32.5 | 18.8 | 19.2 | 2.30 | ... | 0.82 | 0.19 | 0.18 | 0.17 | ... | 0.09 | ... | 0.84 | 1.89 | 144 | ||||
Lambeth | 321,344 | 8,035 | 4,336 | 387 | 24.6 | 13.3 | 13.7 | 1.18 | ... | 0.31 | 0.13 | 0.14 | 0.15 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.43 | 1.45 | 104 | ||||
Battersea | 183,873 | 4,663 | 2,278 | 222 | 24.9 | 12.2 | 13.1 | 1.19 | ... | 0.26 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.21 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.44 | 1.19 | 106 | ||||
Wandsworth | 289,506 | 7,403 | 3,403 | 275 | 25.2 | 11.6 | 12.2 | 0.93 | ... | 0.15 | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0.21 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.35 | 1.96 | 97 | ||||
Camberwell | 280,022 | 6,885 | 3,603 | 306 | 24.2 | 12.7 | 13.1 | 1.06 | ... | 0.19 | 0.08 | 0.14 | 0.19 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.44 | 0.12 | 104 | ||||
Deptford | 117,539 | 3,153 | 1,643 | 157 | 26.4 | 13.8 | 14.5 | 1.32 | ... | 0.28 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.20 | ... | 0.07 | ... | 0.63 | 1.16 | 122 | ||||
GREENWICH | 109,110 | 2,590 | 1.377 | 129 | 23.4 | 12.4 | 12.9 | 1.16 | ... | 0.14 | 0.05 | 0.6 | 0.28 | ... | 0.08 | ... | 0.44 | 1.14 | 120 | ||||
Lewisham | 156,627 | 3,661 | 1,748 | 197 | 23.0 | 11.0 | 11.4 | 1.25 | ... | 0.29 | 0.07 | 0.27 | 0.9 | ... | 0.03 | ... | 0.40 | 1.85 | 86 | ||||
Woolwich | 131,346 | 3,176 | 1,516 | 123 | 23.8 | 11.4 | 12.1 | 0.92 | ... | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.16 | 0.24 | ... | 0.02 | ... | 0.36 | 0.20 | 94 |
* The Corrected Death Rates represent the Crude Death Rates multiplied by the respective factors.
for correction for differences of sex and age constitution of population.