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 and vital statistics of the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green during the year 1899
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Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population middle of 1899. | Births | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1,000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping-cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever | Diarrhœa. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1,000 Births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
LONDON | 4,546,752 | 133,120 | 87,530 | 29.4 | 19.3 | 2.46 | 11,147 | 3 | 2,141 | 398 | 1,946 | 1,717 | 2 | 758 | 1 | 4,l8l | 8,275 | 166 |
128,794 | 2,941 | 2,065 | 22.9 | 16.1 | 1.55 | 198 | .. | 6 | 5 | 29 | 43 | .. | 9 | 106 | 148 | 151 | ||
Kensington | 172,899 | 3,590 | 3,054 | 20.8 | 1.53 | 263 | .. | 24 | 10 | 43 | 61 | .. | 24 | .. | 101 | 231 | l80 | |
Hammersmith | 108,785 | 3,061 | 2,058 | 28.2 | 19.0 | 2.11 | 230 | .. | 22 | 13 | 25 | 46 | .. | 23 | .. | 101 | 187 | 183 |
Fulham | 130,720 | 4,574 | 2,507 | 35.2 | 19.2 | 3.3 | 423 | .. | 68 | 33 | 59 | 54 | .. | 25 | 1 | 183 | 238 | 189 |
Chelsea | 96,721 | 2,381 | 1,893 | 24.7 | 19. 6 | 2.13 | 205 | .. | 18 | 8 | 26 | .. | 18 | .. | 64 | 164 | ||
St. George Hanover Sq. | 80,876 | 1,348 | 1,142 | 16.7 | 14.2 | 1.09 | 88 | .. | 7 | 12 | 14 | .. | 9 | .. | 29 | 110 | 129 | |
Westminster | 52,117 | 1,115 | 1,159 | 21.5 | 22.3 | 1.64 | 85 | .. | 17 | 5 | 10 | 5 | .. | 9 | .. | 39 | 172 | 207 |
St. James Westminster | 21,827 | 437 | 389 | 20.1 | 17.9 | 1.12 | 24 | .. | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | .. | 3 | .. | 8 | 46 | 142 |
140,139 | 3,987 | 2,596 | 28.5 | 18.6 | I.70 | 236 | 1 | 24 | 15 | 36 | 34 | .. | 26 | .. | 100 | 277 | 124 | |
Hampstead | 80,252 | 1,577 | 926 | 10.8 | 11.6 | 1.l6 | 93 | .. | 22 | 6 | 15 | 11 | .. | 4 | .. | 35 | 67 | 129 |
St. Pancras | 244,548 | 6,621 | 4,948 | 2.7.1 | 20.3 | 2.69 | 653 | .. | 102 | 25 | 111 | 142 | .. | 42 | .. | 231 | 489 | 178 |
Inlington | 348,085 | 9,658 | 6,299 | 2.78 | 18.1 | 2.30 | 798 | .. | 164 | 34 | 126 | 170 | .. | 48 | .. | 256 | 552 | 160 |
Stoke Newington | 35.187 | 799 | 446 | 22.8 | 12.7 | 1.33 | 47 | .. | 10 | 3 | 6 | 4 | .. | 5 | .. | 19 | 31 | 103 |
Hackney | 222,571 | 6,453 | 3,753 | 29 .1 | l6.9 | 2.22 | 492 | .. | 110 | 16 | 89 | 48 | .. | 35 | .. | 194 | 332 | 153 |
37, 196 | 1,132 | 739 | 30.5 | 19.9 | 1.40 | 52 | .. | 16 | .. | 5 | 1 | .. | 4 | .. | 26 | 116 | 112 | |
St. Martin-in-Fields | 12,142 | 148 | 189 | 12.2 | 15.6 | 1.07 | 13 | .. | 5 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 6 | 22 | 203 |
Strand | 23,016 | 472 | 521 | 20.6 | 22.7 | 1.30 | 30 | .. | 5 | 1 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 62 | 189 | |
Holborn | 29,621 | 721 | 737 | 24.4 | 24.9 | 2.23 | 66 | .. | 11 | 3 | 6 | 13 | .. | 7 | .. | 26 | 91 | 226 |