Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham for the year 1915
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Table showing Population, Birth and Death Rates, and Infant Mortality, in the Metropolitan Boroughs and the County of London.
Boroughs. | Population estimated to the middle of 1!)15. | Births. | Deaths. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number. | Rate per 1000 Births. | ||||||
County of London | 4310030 | 101649 | 72399 | 23.6 | 16.8 | 11369 | 112 |
West. | |||||||
Paddington | 131397 | 2746 | 2266 | 21.0 | 17.5 | 316 | 115 |
Kensington | 155795 | 3118 | 2607 | 20.1 | 17.1 | 367 | 118 |
Hammersmith | 118680 | 2707 | 1932 | 22.9 | 16.4 | 275 | 102 |
Fulham | 151161 | 3870 | 2349 | 25.7 | 15.6 | 445 | 115 |
Chelsea | 58421 | 1099 | 1116 | 18.9 | 18.5 | 106 | 96 |
City of Westminster | 135104 | 1969 | 2229 | 14.6 | 15.9 | 182 | 92 |
North. | |||||||
St. Marylebone | 100260 | 1823 | 1700 | 18.2 | 16.9 | 181 | 99 |
Hampstead | 81760 | 1317 | 1014 | 16.2 | 12.3 | 103 | 78 |
St. Pancras | 200322 | 4755 | 3527 | 23.8 | 17.8 | 496 | 104 |
Islington | 316242 | 7544 | 5555 | 23.9 | 17.7 | 812 | 108 |
Stoke Newington | 50527 | 916 | 778 | 18.2 | 15.6 | 94 | 103 |
Hackney | 217883 | 4844 | 3259 | 22.3 | 15.0 | 526 | 109 |
Central. | |||||||
Holborn . | 40405 | 672 | 759 | 16.7 | 18.5 | 68 | 101 |
Finsbury | 76915 | 2198 | 1643 | 28.7 | 21.6 | 281 | 128 |
City of London . | 19461 | 150 | 308 | 7.7 | 15.1 | 18 | 120 |
East. | |||||||
Shoreditch | 103627 | 3114 | 2052 | 30.1 | 20.1 | 450 | 145 |
Bethnal Green | 120207 | 3514 | 2110 | 29.3 | 17.6 | 430 | 122 |
Stepney | 265731 | 7512 | 4603 | 28.3 | 17.4 | 867 | 115 |
Poplar | 156247 | 4742 | 3046 | 30.4 | 19.7 | 628 | 132 |
South. | |||||||
South wark | 179424 | 5239 | 3727 | 29.3 | 20.9 | 693 | 132 |
Bermondsey | 117188 | 3547 | 2504 | 30.4 | 21.4 | 527 | 149 |
Lambeth | 284188 | 6571 | 4944 | 23.2 | 1.69 | 693 | 105 |
Baitersea | 161945 | 3824 | 2648 | 23.7 | 16.6 | 428 | 112 |
Wandsworth | 312249 | 6278 | 4195 | 20.2 | 13.4 | 589 | 94 |
Camberwell | 254385 | 6149 | 3918 | 24.2 | l5.5 | 635 | 103 |
Deptford . | 110299 | 2956 | 1948 | 26.9 | 17.9 | 390 | 132 |
Greenwich | 96385 | 2335 | 1710 | 24.3 | 16.3 | 237 | 101 |
Lewisham | 164433 | 3267 | 2116 | 19.3 | 12.86 | 258 | 79 |
Woolwich | 129505 | 2823 | 1828 | 21.9 | 14.2 | 265 | 94 |
Note.—The figures in this table are extracted from the Registrar-General's
Annual Summary. The death-rates appearing herein are standardised in order
to make correction for differences of age and sex constitution of the several
populations in 1911 as compared with that of England and Wales in 1901-