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 Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1920
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COMPARATIVE TABLE, YEAR 1920—LONDON BOROUGHS
Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population to the middle of 1920. | Births. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Zymotic deaths. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Death-rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths of Infants under one year to 1,000 births. |
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LONDON | 4,531,971 | 26.5 | 0.9 | 12.4 | 75 |
Paddington | 149,673 | 22.7 | 0.7 | 11.1 | 78 |
Kensington | 164,177 | 24.3 | 0.9 | 13.0 | 81 |
Hammersmith | 136,200 | 24.3 | 0.8 | 11.2 | 65 |
Fulham | 158,621 | 27.2 | 0.8 | 11.3 | 74 |
Chelsea | 68,500 | 20.3 | 0.04 | 11.9 | 52 |
City of Westminster | 132,615 | 16.1 | 0.4 | 11.6 | 71 |
St. Marylebone | 101,856 | 21.5 | 0.5 | 12.5 | 65 |
Hampstead | 91,519 | 17.1 | 0.2 | 9.0 | 48 |
St. Pancras | 228,178 | 25.4 | 0.9 | 12.3 | 72 |
Islington | 335,907 | 28.1 | 1.0 | 13.3 | 71 |
Stoke Newington | 52,984 | 23.1 | 0.7 | 12.8 | 80 |
HACKNEY | 225,372 | 26.6 | 1.09 | 12.7 | 80 |
Holborn | 39,676 | 20.8 | 0.6 | 14.9 | 64 |
Finsbury | 78,291 | 32.4 | 0.9 | 14.5 | 76 |
City of London | 12,200 | 14.9 | 0.4 | 13.3 | 71 |
Shoreditch | 101,000 | 36.9 | 1.4 | 15.4 | 91 |
Bethnal Green | 114,471 | 33.7 | 1.9 | 14.7 | 95 |
Stepney | 241,770 | 31.2 | 1.1 | 14.4 | 87 |
Poplar | 159,766 | 34.1 | 1.3 | 14.6 | 82 |
Southwark | 187,142 | 31.8 | 1.0 | 14.4 | 86 |
Bermondsey | 129,189 | 31.8 | 1.2 | 13.0 | 84 |
Lambeth | 293,592 | 27.8 | 0.9 | 13.0 | 67 |
Battersea | 165,664 | 28.1 | 1.1 | 12.3 | 82 |
Wandsworth | 342,808 | 21.0 | 0.6 | 10.0 | 62 |
Camberwell | 284,712 | 26.5 | 0.8 | 11.5 | 70 |
Deptford | 115,636 | 28.3 | 0.8 | 12.0 | 79 |
Greenwich | 104,453 | 24.6 | 0.9 | 11.9 | 72 |
Lewisham | 174,438 | 22.8 | 0.4 | 10.8 | 65 |
Woolwich | 141,666 | 24.7 | 0.5 | 10.4 | 60 |