Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1927
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Illegitimate Infant Deaths.
The death-rate amongst illegitimate children during 1927 was
89.9 per 1,000 births, as compared with 162.2 per 1,000 births in
1926, 113.2 in 1925, 148.1 in 1924 and 179.7 in 1923. The
corresponding death-rate of legitimate children in 1927 was 52.4,
the ratio of the mortality-rate of illegitimate infants to that of
legitimate being 1.7 to 1.
Comparative Statistics, Metropolitan Boroughs.
Table showing the birth-rates, death-rates and infant mortality-
rates in the 29 Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs for the year
1927:—
Births per 1,000 Population. | Deaths per 1,000 Population. | Infant Mortality per 1,000 Births. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. Shoreditch | 20.6 | 1. Woolwich | 10.6 | 1. Holborn | 38 |
2. Poplar | 19.8 | 2. Greenwich | 10.8 | 2. Woolwich | 42 |
3. Bethnal Green | 19.6 | 3. Lewisham | 11.0 | 3. Lewisham | 46 |
4. Finsbury | 19.2 | 4. Bethnal Green | 11.1 | 4. Finsbury | 50 |
5. Southwark | 19.0 | 5. Fulham | 11.3 | 5. Lambeth | 50 |
6. Bermondsey | 18.5 | 6. St. Marylebone | 11.3 | 6. Hampstead | 51 |
7. Islington | 18.3 | 7. Wandsworth | 11.3 | 7. Wandsworth | 51 |
8. Stepney | 18.1 | 8. Camberwell | 11.4 | 8. Camberwell | 52 |
9. Deptford | 16.8 | 9. Deptford | 11.5 | 9. Battersea | 53 |
10. Battersea | 16.6 | 10. City of London | 11.5 | 10. Greenwich | 53 |
11. Greenwich | 16.2 | 11. Hackney | 11.6 | 11. Islington | 53 |
12. Lambeth | 16.2 | 12. Stepney | 11.6 | 12. Bethnal Green | 57 |
13. Woolwich | 15.9 | 13. Poplar | 11.8 | 13. Deptford | 58 |
14. Hackney | 15.7 | 14. Battersea | 12.2 | 14. St. Marylebone | 59 |
15. Hammersmith | 15.6 | 15. Hampstead | 12.2 | 15. Hammersmith | 61 |
16. Camberwell | 15.6 | 16. S. Newington | 12.2 | 16. Southwark | 61 |
17. Paddington | 15.5 | 17. City of Westminster | 12.3 | 17. St. Pancras | 62 |
18. St. Pancras | 15.5 | 18. Hackney | 64 | ||
19. Lewisham | 15.1 | 18. St. Pancras | 12.3 | 19. Fulham | 66 |
20. Fulham | 15.1 | 19. Islington | 12.3 | 20. Kensington | 66 |
21. Kensington | 15.0 | 20. Lambeth | 12.4 | 21. Poplar | 66 |
22. S. Newington | 14.0 | 21. Holborn | 12.5 | 22. S. Newington | 66 |
23. Wandsworth | 13.5 | 22. Shoreditch | 12.6 | 23. Bermondsey | 67 |
24. Chelsea | 13.4 | 23. Bermondsey | 12.9 | 24. Stepney | 68 |
25. St. Marylebone | 13.2 | 24. Hammersmith | 13.0 | 25. City of Westminster | 68 |
26. Holborn | 12.0 | 25. Finsbury | 13.4 | ||
27. Hampstead | 11.9 | 26. South wark | 13.4 | 26. Shoreditch | 74 |
28. City of Westminster | 10.0 | 27. Paddington | 13.5 | 27. Chelsea | 76 |
28. Kensington | 13.8 | 28. Paddington | 79 | ||
29. City of London | 8.7 | 29. Chelsea | 14.1 | 29. City of London | 105 |
London County | 16.1 | 11.9 | 59 | ||
England and Wales | 16.7 | 12.3 | 69 |