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

Greenwich 1908

The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1908

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

18
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The Infantile Mortality, recorded by the deaths of children
under one year of age to the number of births registered, was 120
per 1,000 births, there having been a total of 310 such deaths
during the year, as compared with 259, 320 and 318, the figures
for the three preceding years. The number for the County of
London was 113 per 1,000 births.
The lowest rates of Infantile Mortality amongst the Metropolitan
Boroughs were 69 per 1,000 births in Hampstead, 86 in
Lewisham, 92 in the City of London and Stoke Newington, and
94 in Woolwich; whilst the highest were 130 in Stepney, 131
in Southwark, 132 in Bethnal Green, 133 in Finsbury, 139 in
Shoreditch, and 144 in Bermondsey.

Table: Locally, the variations were from 111 per 1,000 births in East and West Greenwich, 130 in St. Nicholas, 133 in Kibrooke, and 154 in Charlton; the following table compares, at a glance, these figures for the years since the formation of the Borough:—

Locally, the variations were from 111 per 1,000 births in East and West Greenwich, 130 in St. Nicholas, 133 in Kibrooke, and 154 in Charlton; the following table compares, at a glance, these figures for the years since the formation of the Borough:—

District.1902.1903.1904.1905.1906.Average for five Years.1907.1908.
East Greenwich12113213211111412297111
West „134127142114112126108111
St. Nicholas219143191162207184124130
Charlton148108143102107122102154
Kidbrooke59—136—484991133
Total138128142119121130103120