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 Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1929
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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Year | Whole Borough | London | ||
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No. of Deaths | Rate per 1,000 Births | No. of Deaths | Rate per 1,000 Births | |
1919 | 262 | 99 | 7,039 | 85 |
1920 | 337 | 83 | 9,141 | 76 |
1921 | 306 | 95 | 8,077 | 80 |
1922 | 324 | 102 | 7,089 | 75 |
1923 | 220 | 76 | 5,615 | 61 |
1924 | 229 | 78 | 5,904 | 69 |
1925 | 210 | 79 | 5,599 | 68 |
1926 | 146 | 60 | 5,067 | 64 |
1927 | 149 | 67 | 4,357 | 59 |
1928 | 178 | 85 | 4,879 | 67 |
Average for years 1919-1928 | 236 | 82 | 6,277 | 70 |
1929 | 160 | 71 | 4,995 | 71 |
TUBERCULOSIS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. In the following Table will be found particulars of deaths from Tuberculosis of the Respiratory System since the year 1919.
Sub-District | Bermondsey | Rotherhithe | St. Olave | Whole Borough | London | |||||
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Year | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate |
1919 | 104 | 1.28 | 58 | 1.66 | 12 | 1.39 | 174 | 1.40 | 5332 | 1.22 |
1920 | 81 | 0.96 | 46 | 1.27 | 10 | 1.12 | 137 | 1.06 | 4791 | 1.05 |
1921 | 106 | – | 43 | – | 14 | – | 163 | 1.35 | 4813 | 1.07 |
1922 | 119 | – | 43 | – | 7 | – | 169 | 1.39 | 4888 | 1.08 |
1923 | 95 | – | 35 | – | 14 | – | 144 | 1.18 | 4432 | 0.97 |
1924 | 92 | – | 46 | – | 11 | – | 149 | 1.22 | 4486 | 0.98 |
1925 | 99 | – | 35 | – | 11 | – | 145 | 1.18 | 4361 | 0.95 |
1926 | 100 | – | 39 | – | 12 | – | 151 | 1.23 | 4066 | 0.88 |
1927 | 87 | – | 42 | – | 15 | – | 144 | 1.19 | 4140 | 0.91 |
1928 | 88 | – | 43 | – | 12 | – | 143 | 1.24 | 3985 | 0.89 |
Averages for years 1919-1928 | 97 | – | 43 | – | 12 | – | 152 | 1.24 | 4529 | 1.00 |
1929 | 78 | – | 31 | – | 8 | – | 117 | 1.03 | 4230 | 0.96 |