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 1936
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INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Year | Whole Borough | London | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
No. of Deaths | Rate per 1,000 Births | No. of Deaths | Rate per 1,000 Births | |
1926 | 146 | 60 | 5,067 | 64 |
1927 | 149 | 67 | 4,357 | 59 |
1928 | 178 | 85 | 4,879 | 67 |
1929 | 160 | 71 | 4,995 | 71 |
1930 | 130 | 63 | 4,109 | 59 |
1931 | 112 | 57 | 4,270 | 65 |
1932 | 103 | 56 | 4,143 | 67 |
1933 | 92 | 61 | 3,377 | 60 |
1934 | 100 | 64 | 3,832 | 67 |
1935 | 103 | 69 | 3,229 | 58 |
Average for year 1926-1935 | 127 | 65 | 4,226 | 64 |
1936 | 92 | 60 | * | * |
TUBERCULOSIS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. In the following Table will be found particulars of deaths from Tuberculosis of the Respiratory System since the year 1926.
Sub-District | Bermond sey | Rotherhithe | St. Olave | Whole Borough | London | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | No. | No. | No. | No. | Rate | No. | Rate |
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 |
1929 | 78 | 31 | 8 | 117 | 1.03 | 4230 | 0.96 |
1930 | 81 | 36 | 15 | 132 | 1.16 | 3826 | 0.87 |
1931 | 81 | 30 | 5 | 116 | 1.03 | 3907 | 0.90 |
1932 | 71 | 34 | 11 | 116 | 1.05 | 3564 | 0.82 |
1933 | 68 | 23 | 8 | 99 | 0.92 | 3530 | 0.82 |
1934 | 64 | 22 | 4 | 90 | 0.86 | 3227 | 0.76 |
1935 | 70 | 23 | 5 | 98 | 0.95 | 2847 | 0.68 |
Averages for years 1926-1935 | 79 | 32 | 9 | 121 | 1.07 | 3732 | 0.85 |
1936 | 51 | 22 | 6 | 79 | 0.79 | * | * |
*These figures are furnished by the Medical Officer of Health, London County Council, and were
not available at the time of going to press—19th May, 1937.
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