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Death-rate from all Deaths under
Boroughs. causes per 1,000 1 year to
living (corrected). 1,000 births.
County of London 14.4 104
Lewisham 10.7 74
Hampstead 11.0 80
Wandsworth 11.0 89
Stoke Nevvington 12.5 78
Paddington 12.9 95
Chelsea 12.9 67
Kensington 13.1 94
City of Westminster 13.2 80
Battersea 13.4 93
Camberwell 13.6 99
Hammersmith 13.7 94
Fulliam 13.8 113
Hackney 14.0 92
City of London 14.0 94
St. Marylebone 14.1 98
Woolwich 14.1 85
Lambeth 14.3 104
Deptford 14.3 99
Greenwich 14.5 98
Islington 14 .8 105
St. Pancras 15.6 92
Holborn 16.2 90
Bethnal Green 16.6 137
Poplar 16.9 116
Stepney . 17.3 124
Bermondsey 17.4 125
South'wark 17.9 124
Finsbury 19.4 123
Shoreditch 19.6 141
The diminution shown is notably in St. George's and in North
Peckham. Both of these showed a rise in 1913, and although they
have not gone back to the exceptionally low rate of 1912 they show
a substantial decrease.
The decrease in Dulwich is not less remarkable, the death rate
being 9.1, whereas in 1912 it was 12.0. Indeed, one has to go as far
back as 1910 to reach one so low as last year.
The reduction is naturally a source of gratification, but the
state of affairs since last August has been so abnormal and so
impossible of comparison with any previous years that it would be
unwise to draw any conclusion from the figures.
The exceptional conditions, however, are not confined to
Camberwell alone, and comparison with London as a whole is
admissible. This much, therefore, can be truthfully said, that its
death rate has decreased, while that of London has gone the other
way, and, making all allowances for favourable weather and other
conditions, this Council would be justified in claiming some credit
for its sanitary administration as a factor in the reduction.