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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
Chelsea 1914
Annual report for 1914 of the Medical Officer of Health
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During the year 1914, 41 births of parishioners were registered as
having occurred in the Chelsea Workhouse, equivalent to 3.25 per cent.
of the total number of births in the Borough, as compared with 5.4 per cent.
in 1913.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATES FOR 1914.
The total number of deaths registered in the Borough was 1,603. Of
this number 891 were deaths within the Borough, of non-parishioners—
chiefly occurring in Hospitals and in the St. George's Infirmary; and 185
deaths of parishioners occurred outside the Borough in various public institutions.
There were, therefore, 897 deaths of parishioners of Chelsea.
These 897 deaths are equivalent to a death-rate of 13.3 per 1,000 as
against 13.5 in 1913. The death-rate for 1914 is the lowest yet recorded
in Chelsea.
Table II. gives the death-rates of the Home District of Chelsea Parish, of Chelsea Borough, and of London, during the past 24 years. Table II.
| Year. | Chelsea. | London. |
|---|---|---|
| Death-rate. | Death-rate. | |
| 1891 | 22.1 | 21.4 |
| 1892 | 21.9 | 20.7 |
| 1893 | 21.6 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 17.6 | 17.8 |
| 1895 | 20.8 | 19.9 |
| 1896 | 19.0 | 18.6 |
| 1897 | 17.9 | 18.2 |
| 1898 | 18.1 | 18.7 |
| 1899 | 20.0 | 19.8 |
| 1900 | 18.1 | 18.7 |
| 1901 | 16.6 | 17.6 |
| 1902 | 18.6 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 15.7 | 15.9 |
| 1904 | 17.1 | 17.0 |
| 1905 | 15.7 | 15.5 |
| 1906 | 16.7 | 15.7 |
| 1907 | 16.2 | 15.3 |
| 1908 | 16.1 | 14.9 |
| 1909 | 161 | 14.1 |
| 1910 | 14.2 | 13.7 |
| 1911 | 15.7 | 15.0 |
| 1912 | 14.8 | 13.8 |
| 1913 | 13.5 | 14.0 |
| 1914 | 13.3 | 14.4 |
* 1891-1900, Chelsea Home District.
Zymotic Death-rate.—The death-rate in Chelsea from the seven principal
zymotic diseases was 0.76 per 1,000 in 1914, the corresponding rate
for London being 1.57. In 1913 the zymotic death-rate in Chelsea was
0.87 per 1,000.