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 1922
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COMPARATIVE TABLE, YEAR 1922.
Name of Borough. | Population. | Birth Rate. | Zymotic Death Rate. | Death Rate all causes. | Infant Mortality |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Battersea | 169,200 | 21.6 | 1.13 | 13.1 | 69 |
Bermcndsey | 120,500 | 27.0 | — | 17.0 | 101 |
Bethnal Green | 118,400 | 25.2 | — | 15.3 | 90 |
Camberwell | 269,600 | 21.5 | — | 13.4 | 78 |
Chelsea | 63,920 | 16.1 | 0.78 | 13.3 | 66 |
Deptford | 114,100 | 23.1 | 1.38 | 13.8 | 74 |
Finsbury | 76,840 | 25.2 | 1.29 | 16.3 | 82 |
Fulham | 159400 | 20.3 | — | 12.0 | 68 |
Greenwich | 101,930 | 21.0 | 0.86 | 12.9 | 56 |
Hackney | 225,400 | 21.0 | 0.63 | 12.7 | 72 |
Hammersmith | 134,400 | 20.5 | 1.17 | 12.9 | 71 |
Hampstead | 86,920 | 14.8 | 0.49 | 11.1 | 56 |
Holborn | 42,850 | 16.9 | 0.3 | 13.2 | 66 |
Islington | 333,900 | 22.4 | 1.05 | 13.8 | 77 |
Kensington | 179,100 | 17.6 | 0.97 | 13.6 | 82 |
Lambeth | 305,700 | 20.8 | — | 13.7 | 77 |
Lewisham | 176,600 | 18.1 | 0.52 | 11.1 | 54 |
Paddington | 145,300 | 18.7 | 0.68 | 12.9 | 69 |
Poplar | 165,700 | 26.6 | 1.58 | 14.3 | 79 |
St. Marylebone | 105,200 | 15.9 | 0.88 | 13.7 | 68 |
St. Pancras | 212,500 | 21.5 | 1.19 | 14.6 | 74 |
Shoreditch | 105,800 | 27.9 | 1.7 | 16.3 | 102 |
Southwark | 187,220 | 24.4 | 2.2 | 15.5 | 79 |
Stepney | 252,000 | 22.9 | — | 13.9 | 80 |
Stoke Newington | 52,620 | 17.8 | — | 12.9 | 67 |
Wandsworth | 331,500 | 16.6 | — | 11.2 | 61 |
Westminster | 139,389 | 13.4 | 0.4 | 12.9 | 54 |
Woolwich | 138,254 | 21.3 | 0.69 | 11.6 | 62 |
City of London | 13,527 | 10.9 | — | 13.9 | 81 |
County of London | 4,514,405 | 21.0 | — | 13.4 | 74 |
City of Belfast | — | — | — | 14.8 | 94 |
„ „ Dublin | — | — | — | 17.0 | 116 |
„ „ Glasgow | — | — | — | 17.2 | 120 |
„ „ Edinburgh | — | — | — | 15.2 | 91 |
„ „ Liverpool | — | — | — | 14.6 | 96 |
„ „ Manchester | — | — | — | 14.2 | 96 |