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Death-rate from all
causes per 1,000
living (corrected).
Deaths under
1 year to
1,000 births.
Boroughs.
16.8
112
County of London
78
Hampstead
12.3
Lewisham
12.9
80
Wandsworth
13.4
94
Woolwich
14.2
94
Hackney
15.0
109
City of London
15.1
120
Camberwell
15.5
103
Stoke Newington
103
15.6
Fulham
115
15.6
City of Westminster
15.9
92
Greenwich
16.3
101
Hammersmith
16.4
102
Battersea
16.6
112
St. Marylebone
16.9
99
Lambeth
16.9
105
Kensington
17.1
118
17.4
Stepney
115
Paddington
17.5
115
Bethnal Green
17.6
122
Islington
17.7
108
St. Pancras
17.8
104
Deptford
17.9
132
Chelsea
18.5
96
Holborn
18.5
101
Poplar
19.7
132
Shoreditch
20.1
145
Southwark
20.9
132
Bermondsey
149
21.4
Finsbury
21.6
128
(This table is taken from the Report of the Medical Officer to the London
County Council.)
is at once confronted by a considerable increase in measles, which is
only partly compensated for by a decrease in whooping-cough. The
ordinary liability to bronchitis and pneumonia which probably
exists in every child is heightened by the complaint, and when one
realises how largely the recovery is due to special care, which cannot
always be given at home, it is evident that this is a disease which
is likely to exact a heavy toll. Even those who recover under
the best conditions of treatment often fall a victim later on to tuberculous
diseases. These caused two more deaths than in 1914, one
of them being due to the meningeal form of the disease.
So far as Camberwell is concerned, the necessity for official
health visitors seems to be not proven. Not for one moment
should we belittle the efforts made by the various voluntary agencies
in the Borough, but it is in the fact that these are taken up for the
love of the thing that will endow their work with any value. With
the class of people who are most in need of instruction there may be
lip-agreement with the official, but only from one whom they regard