London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Greenwich 1913
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1913
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Analysis of the Vital Statistics of the Metropolitan Boroughs,
occurring in Public Institutions,
| Boroughs. | Estimated Population, middle of 1913. | Births. | Deaths. | Deaths from Principal Infectious Diseases. | Annual rate per 1,000 Living. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births. | Deaths. | ||||||
| Crude. | Standardized. | ||||||
| County of London | 4,618,191 | 112,637 | 65,030 | 24.5 | 14.2 | 14.2 | |
| Paddington | 142,210 | 3,055 | 1,941 | 21.1 | 13.4 | 13.4 | |
| Kensington | 171,284 | 3,357 | 2,377 | 19.3 | 13.7 | 13.6 | |
| Hammersmith | 123,745 | 3,043 | 1,754 | 24.2 | 13.9 | 13.8 | |
| Fulham | 157,117 | 4,302 | 1,992 | 26.9 | 12.5 | 12.9 | |
| Chelsea | 64,598 | 1,257 | 911 | 19.1 | 13.9 | 13.2 | |
| City of Westminster | 154,810 | 2,227 | 1,992 | 14.2 | 12.7 | 13.3 | |
| St. Marylebone | 114,532 | 2,221 | 1,633 | 19.1 | 14.0 | 14.3 | |
| Hampstead | 86,346 | 1,326 | 938 | 15.1 | 10.7 | 11.3 | |
| St. Pancras | 214,330 | 5,512 | 3,321 | 25.3 | 15.2 | 15.2 | |
| Islington | 325,585 | 8,357 | 5,009 | 25.3 | 15.1 | 14.8 | |
| Stoke Newington | 50,518 | 1,144 | 698 | 22.3 | 13.6 | 12.9 | |
| Hackney | 223,353 | 5,522 | 3,037 | 24.3 | 13.4 | 13.5 | |
| Holborn | 46,949 | 798 | 698 | 16.7 | 14.6 | 14.7 | |
| Finsbury | 84,679 | 2,547 | 1,576 | 29.6 | 18.3 | 18.1 | |
| City of London | 17,916 | 167 | 276 | 9.2 | 15.2 | 15.8 | |
| Shoreditch | 169,654 | 3,513 | 2,068 | 31.5 | 18.6 | 19.2 | |
| Bethnal Green | 127,824 | 3,998 | 2,006 | 30.8 | 15.4 | 16.1 | |
| Stepney | 275,300 | 8,187 | 4,172 | 29.3 | 14.9 | 15.6 | |
| Poplar | 160,913 | 5,230 | 2,668 | 32.0 | 16.3 | 16.1 | |
| Southwark | 188,487 | 5,936 | 3,343 | 31.0 | 17.4 | 17.6 | |
| Bermondsey | 124,739 | 3,896 | 2,266 | 30.7 | 17.9 | 17.8 | |
| Lambeth | 297,139 | 7,233 | 4,314 | 23.9 | 14.3 | 14.0 | |
| Battersea | 167,464 | 4,239 | 2,361 | 24.9 | 13.9 | 14.0 | |
| Wandsworth | 330,395 | 6,840 | 3,550 | 20.4 | 10.6 | 10.6 | |
| Camberwell | 261,805 | 6,671 | 3,653 | 25.1 | 13.7 | 13.6 | |
| Deptford | 109,280 | 3,103 | 1,704 | 27.9 | 15.8 | 15.2 | |
| GREENWICH | 96,015 | 2,545 | 1,396 | 140 | 26.1 | 14.3 | 14.0 |
| Lewisham | 168,822 | 3,522 | 1,814 | 20.5 | 10.6 | 10.4 | |
| Woolwich | 122,382 | 2,893 | 1,573 | 23.3 | 12.6 | 13.0 | |
* The Standardized Death Rates represent the Crude Death Rates multiplied by the respective factors
for correction for differences of sex and age constitution of population.