London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1927
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1927
This page requires JavaScript
APPENDIX. Diphtheria in Metropolitan Boroughs in the Years 1923, 1924 and 1925.
| Borough. | 1923. | 1924. | 1925. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population. | Rate per 10,000. | Death • rate per 10.000. | Population. | Rate per 10,000. | Death rate per 10,000. | Population. | Rate per 10,000. | Death rate per 10,000. | |
| Paddington | 146,200 | 15.2 | 1.0 | 146,400 | 18.9 | 1.0 | 147,100 | 23.0 | 0.7 |
| Kensington | 178,500 | 13.9 | 0.8 | 178,500 | 12.7 | 0.8 | 179,400 | 16.6 | 0.6 |
| Hammersmith | 133,600 | 17.4 | 1.5 | 133,600 | 19.8 | 1.2 | 134,500 | 15.5 | 0.9 |
| Fulham | 161,600 | 17.1 | 1.2 | 163,100 | 16.0 | 0.7 | 163,700 | 16.6 | 0.6 |
| Chelsea | 64,480 | 15.2 | 1.6 | 64,580 | 12.4 | 0.5 | 64,820 | 26.6 | 1.1 |
| Westminster | 140,430 | 6.9 | 0.4 | 139,900 | 16.9 | 1.8 | 139,600 | 20.7 | 1.2 |
| St. Marylebone | 105,400 | 12.4 | 0.2 | 105,300 | 11.8 | 0.3 | 106,100 | 12.5 | 0.7 |
| Hampstead | 87,410 | 12.2 | 0.9 | 87,600 | 11.7 | 0.3 | 88,040 | 18.0 | 0.2 |
| St. Pancras | 214,400 | 24.1 | 0.9 | 214,300 | 28.5 | 1.0 | 215,900 | 32.6 | 1.5 |
| Islington | 336,600 | 26.5 | 0.6 | 337,400 | 25.1 | 0.9 | 339,200 | 27.0 | 0.6 |
| Stoke Newington | 52,820 | 10.8 | 0.8 | 52,920 | 19.6 | 0.9 | 55,190 | 14.0 | 0.8 |
| Hackney | 226,400 | 23.3 | 1.5 | 226,900 | 24.2 | 1.4 | 228,300 | 29.0 | 1.3 |
| Holborn | 43,376 | 23.5 | 0.9 | 43,250 | 16.4 | 0.9 | 43,315 | 19.0 | 0.5 |
| Finsbury | 77,230 | 40.4 | 1.2 | 77,180 | 25.1 | 1.8 | 77,560 | 32.7 | 0.8 |
| London, City of | 13,772 | 13.1 | 0.7 | 13,621 | 7.2 | — | 13,629 | 14.0 | 0.7 |
| Shoreditch | 106,200 | 34.0 | 1.2 | 106,500 | 36.3 | 1.4 | 107,300 | 41.1 | 1.4 |
| Bethnal Green | 118,700 | 41.0 | 1.7 | 119,200 | 47.3 | 2.4 | 119,800 | 41.6 | 1.4 |
| Stepney | 253,850 | 24.1 | 1.2 | 253,740 | 22.0 | 0.9 | 255,370 | 25.4 | 0.9 |
| Poplar | 166,400 | 21.9 | 1.8 | 167,300 | 24.0 | 1.2 | 168,500 | 21.8 | 0.4 |
| Southwark | 187,464 | 41.1 | 2.7 | 187,714 | 41.8 | 2.7 | 189,000 | 48.0 | 1.6 |
| Bermondsey | 121,700 | 48.4 | 2.7 | 122,100 | 43.9 | 2.1 | 123,000 | 43.6 | 2.4 |
| Lambeth | 308,500 | 18.9 | 1.5 | 309,300 | 19.4 | 1.7 | 311,100 | 26.7 | 1.8 |
| Battersea | 170,600 | 25.2 | 2.0 | 171,000 | 25.3 | 1.5 | 172,100 | 26.6 | 0.6 |
| Wandsworth | 336,100 | 11.0 | 0.8 | 338,200 | 13.6 | 0.7 | 340,900 | 22.5 | 0.8 |
| Camberwell | 272,300 | 31.7 | 2.7 | 273,700 | 30.0 | 1.9 | 275,400 | 33.6 | 1.5 |
| Deptford | 114,900 | 35.3 | 2.9 | 115,200 | 30.4 | 1.3 | 115,900 | 50.3 | 2.0 |
| Greenwich | 102,777 | 21.2 | 1.l1 | 102,470 | 30.7 | 1.4 | 102,936 | 42.3 | 1.4 |
| Lewisham | 182,400 | 15.8 | 1.5 | 184,900 | 9.8 | 0.5 | 185,600 | 13.2 | 0.9 |
| Woolwich | 140,000 | 10.6 | 0.1 | 139,930 | 13.7 | 0.6 | 140,740 | 20.9 | 0.9 |
| London | 4,564,109 | 22.6 | 1.3 | 4,576,505 | 23.0 | 1.2 | 4,602,000 | 27.2 | 1.1 |
The above statistical figures are instructive and show that certain Boroughs, including Battersea, practically in each year show a
case and mortality rate above the average rate for London.