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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
Deptford 1914
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Analysis of the Vital Statistics of the Metropolitan Boroughs and of the City of London for 1914.
| Boroughs. | Estimated Population middle of 1914. | Births. | All Causes. | Deaths from Enteric Fever. | Deaths from Small Pox. | Deaths from Measles. | Deaths from Scarlet Fever. | Deaths from Whooping Cough. | Deaths from Diphtheria. | Deaths from Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years). | Deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Deaths under one year of age. |
| County of London | 4,518,021 | 109,667 | 64,994 | 147 | - | 1,385 | 316 | 9l8 | 706 | 3,031 | 6,28l | 11395 |
| West. | ||||||||||||
| Paddington | 142,193 | 2,965 | 1,846 | 3 | - | 4 | 8 | 25 | 20 | 79 | 145 | 281 |
| Kensington | 171,234 | 3,210 | 2,242 | 1 | - | 15 | 17 | 7 | 13 | 63 | 187 | 302 |
| Hammersmith | 123,853 | 2,935 | 1,717 | 5 | - | 41 | 5 | 21 | l6 | 67 | 170 | 275 |
| Fulham | 157,303 | 4,154 | 2,101 | 9 | - | 31 | 21 | 42 | 22 | 126 | 205 | 468 |
| Chelsea | 64,511 | 1,299 | 870 | 5 | - | 3 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 87 | 87 |
| City of Westminster | 154,544 | 2,155 | 1,936 | 9 | — | 6 | 10 | 21 | 15 | 35 | 205 | 173 |
| North. | ||||||||||||
| St. Marylebone | 114,355 | 2,132 | 1,5577 | 6 | - | 2 | 9 | 20 | 18 | 59 | 146 | 208 |
| Hampstead | 86,388 | 1,273 | 893 | 4 | - | 2 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 55 | 102 |
| St. Pancras | 214,133 | 5,223 | 3,334 | 4 | - | 56 | 18 | 51 | 30 | 121 | 379 | 481 |
| Islington | 325,496 | 8,171 | 4,923 | 4 | - | 97 | 24 | 84 | 43 | 228 | 470 | 857 |
| Stoke Newington | 50,511 | 1,045 | 661 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 58 | 81 |
| Hackney | 223,393 | 5,460 | 3,099 | 8 | — | 106 | 9 | 53 | 39 | 127 | 303 | 502 |
| Central. | ||||||||||||
| Holborn | 46,837. | 764 | 754 | 5 | - | 11 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 92 | 69 |
| Finsbury | 84,521 | 2,541 | I,652 | 2 | - | 76 | 6 | 45 | 9 | 88 | 167 | 312 |
| City of London | 17,831 | 181 | 239 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 17 |
| East. | ||||||||||||
| Shoreditch | 109,569 | 3,511 | 2,075 | 2 | - | 112 | 5 | 55 | 20 | 148 | 234 | 496 |
| Bethnal Green | 127,807 | 3,786 | 2,034 | 4 | - | 68 | 7 | 48 | 28 | 174 | 210 | 518 |
| Stepney | 275,081 | 8,058 | 4,539 | 8 | - | 182 | 28 | 72 | 70 | 268 | 465 | 997 |
| Poplar | 160,839 | 5,073 | 2,743 | 6 | — | 66 | 10 | 31 | 34 | 195 | 268 | 590 |
| South. | ||||||||||||
| Southwark | 188,321 | 5,604 | 3,350 | 2 | - | 95 | 22 | 59 | 37 | 207 | 330 | 693 |
| Bermondsey | 124,683 | 3,849 | 2,1615 | 3 | - | 81 | 8 | 14 | 18 | 140 | 203 | 482 |
| Lambeth | 297,094 | 7,022 | 4,319 | 16 | - | 58 | 16 | 40 | 50 | 202 | 422 | 728 |
| Battersea | 167,451 | 4,303 | 2,220 | 3 | - | 50 | 11 | 26 | 17 | 122 | 210 | 402 |
| Wandsworth | 331,321 | 6,675 | 3,617 | 5 | - | 26 | 13 | 56 | 41 | 148 | 298 | 591 |
| Camberwell | 261,828 | 6,580 | 3,589 | 5 | - | 65 | 23 | 47 | 39 | 143 | 373 | 653 |
| Deptford | 109,182 | 3,121 | 1,598 | 3 | - | 50 | 9 | 9 | 25 | 88 | 152 | 309 |
| Greenwich | 96,018 | 2,408 | 1,412 | 5 | - | 47 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 53 | 132 | 235 |
| Lewisham | 169,211 | 3,336 | 1,836 | 6 | - | 7 | 8 | 19 | 24 | 55 | 126 | 247 |
| Woolwich | 122,431 | 2,839 | 1,679 | 3 | — | 25 | 9 | 27 | 34 | 30 | 171 | 240 |