Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1919
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Table No . 5.—Showing the Birth rates, Death rates, and Infantile Mortality rates of England and Wales and certain of the large Towns, and of London and the Metropolitan Boroughs for 191S. (53 weeks ending 3rd January, 1920.)
Population (Civilian) as Estimated by the Registrar-General in the middle of 1919. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality. | Population (Civilian) as Estimated by the Registrar-General in the middle of 1919. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. (Crude), | Infantile Mortality. | ||
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England and Wales | 35 993,000 | 18.5 | 13.8 | 89 | County of London WEST. | 4,358,309 | 18.3 | 13.4 | 85 |
Birmingham | 861,585 | 20.3 | 13.6 | 88 | |||||
Paddington | 143,938 | 15.5 | 13.0 | 92 | |||||
Liverpool | 772,665 | 23.5 | 16.8 | 107 | |||||
Manchester | 741,068 | 18.2 | 14.0 | 95 | Kensington | 157,886 | 16.3 | 14.9 | 102 |
Sheffield | 473,695 | 21.1 | 13.7 | 96 | Hammersmith | 130.981 | 16.6 | 12.6 | 99 |
Fulham | 152,543 | 18.6 | 12.1 | 83 | |||||
Leeds | 430,834 | 17.6 | 16.0 | 112 | Chelsea | ^0,573 | 14.7 | 14.6 | 80 |
Bristol | 361,247 | 18.1 | 13.1 | 82 | City of Westminster | 127,533 | 12.0 | 13.9 | 89 |
West Ham | 287,966 | 24.1 | 1.3 | 84 | NORTH. | ||||
Bradford | 282,714 | 13.6 | 15.9 | 111 | St. Man lebone | 97,953 | 15.1 | 15.2 | 89 |
Hull | 279,664 | 20.0 | 15.1 | 109 | Hampstead | 88,012 | 12.7 | 11.2 | 81 |
Newcastle-on-Tyne | 275,099 | 23.3 | 16.9 | 119 | St. Pancras | 219.434 | 17.2 | 13.2 | 86 |
Islington | 323,034 | 18.2 | 14.1 | 86 | |||||
Nottingham | 257,573 | 18.2 | 14.1 | 104 | |||||
Stoke Newington | 50,954 | 16.8 | 12.7 | 64 | |||||
Portsmouth | 224,846 | 22.3 | 12.6 | 71 | |||||
Hackney | 216,736 | 18.6 | 13.0 | 82 | |||||
Stoke-on-Trent | 239,316 | 22.3 | 15.7 | 110 | CENTRAL. | ||||
Salford | 226,225 | 18.6 | 14.9 | 101 | Holborn | 38,156 | 13.6 | 16.2 | 94 |
Leicester | 236,059 | 15.6 | 12.9 | 96 | Finsbury | 75,291 | 20.7 | 15.2 | 86 |
Cardiff | 204 436 | 18.3 | 11.9 | 92 | City of London | 13,893 | 10.4 | 14.0 | 105 |
Bolton | 177,462 | 16.1 | 14.4 | 88 | EAST. | ||||
Croydon | 184,239 | 15.8 | 11.9 | 71 | Shoreditch | 98,134 | 23.6 | 15.7 | 104 |
Willesden | 160,917 | 16.7 | 10.6 | 83 | Bethnal Green | 110,085 | 22.5 | 13.9 | 84 |
Rhondda | 177,911 | 22.6 | 11.4 | 111 | Stepney | 232,506 | 22.5 | 14.4 | 79 |
Poplar | 153,644 | 24.8 | 14.4 | 83 | |||||
Sunderland | 149,263 | 27.3 | 17.3 | 119 | south. | ||||
Oldham | 137,668 | 16.1 | 15.9 | 95 | Southwark | 179,971 | 21.9 | 14.9 | 95 |
Tottenham | 141,338 | 17.8 | 10.9 | 70 | Bermondsey | 124,239 | 21.6 | 13.7 | 92 |
West Ham | 1 4,451 | 16.4 | 9.7 | 71 | Lambeth | 282,822 | 19.0 | 14.6 | 85 |
Birkenhead | 118,052 | 22.2 | 13.5 | 96 | Battersea | 159,316 | 18.7 | 12.7 | 73 |
Blackburn | 125,992 | 14.0 | 15.6 | 93 | Wandsworth | 333,693 | 14.7 | 11.2 | 72 |
Brighton | 132,409 | 14.7 | 13.6 | 74 | Camberwell | 273,802 | 18.3 | 12.4 | 82 |
Deptford | 111,205 | 20.6 | 12.8 | 85 | |||||
Walthamstow | 127,684 | 16.8 | 9.9 | 73 | |||||
Greenwich | 98,484 | 19.2 | 13.5 | 92 | |||||
Leyton | 123,896 | 10.1 | 11.0 | 75 | Lewisham | 167,754 | 16.4 | 11.4 | 60 |
Derby | 123,930 | 19.6 | 12.9 | 90 | Woolwich | 136,237 | 19.3 | 12.2 | 85 |