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 1942
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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 | |
1932 | 103 | 56 | 4,143 | 67 |
1933 | 92 | 61 | 3,377 | 60 |
1934 | 100 | 64 | 3,832 | 67 |
1935 | 103 | 69 | 3,229 | 58 |
1936 | 92 | 60 | 3,691 | 66 |
1937 | 84 | 59 | 3,309 | 60 |
1938 | 65 | 45 | 3,130 | 57 |
1939 | 45 | 37 | 2,409 | 47 |
1940 | 40 | 35 | 2,062 | 48 |
1941 | 32 | 61 | 1,543 | 57 |
Average for years 1932-1941 | 55 | 76 | 59 | 3,072 |
1942 | 47 | 38 | * | * |
TUBERCULOSIS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. In the following Table will be found particulars of deaths from Tuberculosis of the Respiratory System since the year 1932.
Sub-District | Bermondsey | Rotherhithe | St. Olave | Whole Borough | London | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | No. | No. | No. | No. | Rate | No. | Rate |
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 |
1936 | 51 | 22 | 6 | 79 | 0.79 | 2848 | 0.69 |
1937 | 63 | 22 | 2 | 87 | 0.89 | 2888 | 0.71 |
1938 | 42 | 23 | 1 | 66 | 0.68 | 2590 | 0.64 |
1939 | 38 | 21 | 6 | 65 | 0.72 | 2650 | 0.70 |
1940 | 43 | 21 | 4 | 68 | 0.95 | 2687 | 0.87 |
1941 | 34 | 17 | 1 | 52 | 1.18 | 2552 | 1.10 |
Averages for years 1932-1941 | 54 | 23 | 5 | 82 | 0.90 | 2938 | 0.78 |
1942 | 34 | 13 | 1 | 48 | * | * | * |
* Not available for publication.