Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health
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The death-rate from pulmonary tuberculosis in the Borough and in each Ward per 10,000 population since 1902, is as follows:—
Year. | DEATHS PER 10,000 POPULATION. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Borough. | No. 1 Town Ward. | No. 2 Belsize Ward. | No. 3 Adelaide Ward. | No. 4 Central W ard. | No. 5 West End Ward.. | No. 6 Kilburn Ward. | No. 7 Priory Ward. | |
1902 | 8.9 | 14.0 | 11.5 | 6.8 | 5.4 | 4.9 | 10.8 | 6.6 |
1903 | 8.0 | 8.9 | 9.9 | 1.0 | 4.3 | 9.7 | 12.2 | 4.7 |
1904 | 8.8 | 10.4 | 9.1 | 7.8 | 1.1 | 6.5 | 14.8 | 8.5 |
1905 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 3.9 | 6.4 | 8.8 | 17.5 | 6.6 |
1906 | 6.8 | 3.9 | 9.7 | 4.9 | 2.1 | 6.4 | 10.1 | 7.6 |
1907 | 7.2 | 9.9 | 7.4 | 2.0 | 5.2 | 7.1 | 10.8 | 5.7 |
1908 | 8.7 | 5.3 | 11.8 | 4.0 | 7.3 | 7.1 | 14.1 | 6.7 |
1909 | 6.2 | 4.5 | 5.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 4.7 | 11.4 | 7.6 |
1910 | 6.8 | 4.4 | 5.8 | 5.0 | 3.1 | 8.6 | 10.7 | 7.6 |
1911 | 6.5 | 5.1 | 7.2 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 7.8 | 10.7 | 4.8 |
1912 | 7.4 | 3.6 | 5.1 | 9.1 | 6.1 | 9.3 | 9.3 | 9.6 |
1913 | 5.6 | 7.6 | 3.5 | 4.0 | — | 5.3 | 11.6 | 2.9 |
1914 | 6.5 | 3.5 | 7.8 | 2.0 | 6.0 | 10.7 | 8.5 | 5.0 |
It will be seen that the rates for the Kilburn Ward are in nearly
every year higher than those of other wards, but, in considering these,
it should be remembered that most of the poorer inhabitants of the
Borough live in this district. Families whose incomes are lessened by
the ill-health of the breadwinner naturally migrate to those streets
where less expensive lodgings may be obtained. During 1914, however,
the death-rate for the West End Ward was higher than that for the
Kilburn Ward. This, I take to be due to an exceptionally heavy
death-rate in the West End Ward for that year, and should be regarded
rather as a coincidence, though one must always bear in mind that one
of the poorest districts of our Borough—the Broomsleigh Street area—
is situated in the West End Ward.