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 1948
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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 | |
1938 | 65 | 45 | 3,130 | 57 |
1939 | 45 | 37 | 2,409 | 47 |
1940 | 40 | 35 | 2,062 | 48 |
1941 | 32 | 61 | 1,543 | 57 |
1942 | 38 | 47 | 2,035 | 50 |
1943 | 49 | 53 | 2,284 | 51 |
1944 | 56 | 66 | 2,250 | 51 |
1945 | 44 | 52 | 2,011 | 44 |
1946 | 53 | 39 | 2,527 | 38 |
1947 | 50 | 33 | 2,454 | 34 |
Average for years 1938-1947 | 47 | 47 | 2,270 | 48 |
1948 | 20 | 16 | 1,869 | 31 |
TUBERCULOSIS OF THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. In the following Table will be found particulars of deaths from Tuberculosis of the Respiratory System since the year 1938.
Sub-District | Bermondsey | Rotherhithe | St. Olave | Whole Borough | London | ||
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Year | No. | No. | No. | No. | Rate | No. | Rate |
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 |
1942 | 34 | 13 | 1 | 48 | 0·93 | 2164 | 0·90 |
1943 | 30 | 5 | 4 | 49 | 1·08 | 2204 | 0·88 |
1944 | 30 | 16 | 1 | 47 | 1·05 | 2073 | 0·84 |
1945 | 28 | 15 | 2 | 45 | 0·96 | 2033 | 0·78 |
1946 | 23 | 8 | 1 | 32 | 0·57 | 1940 | 0·62 |
1947 | 26 | 21 | 5 | 52 | 0·88 | 2044 | 0·62 |
Averages for years 1938- 1947 | 33 | 17 | 3 | 52 | 0·90 | 2294 | 0·79 |
1948 | 26 | 12 | 7 | 45 | 0·74 | 1900 | 0·57 |