Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1924
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The following table shows the Death Rates of the seven
Wards of the Borough.
This rate is calculated on the estimated population of each Ward.
Ward. | Estimated Population. | No. of Deaths. | Death Rate. |
---|---|---|---|
No. 1 River | 17,622 | 296 | 16.8 |
No. 2 Brook Green | 25,785 | 318 | 12.3 |
No. 3 The Grove | 22,920 | 271 | 11.8 |
No. 4 St. Stephens | 9,219 | 116 | 12.6 |
No. 5 Starch Green | 22,746 | 264 | 11.6 |
No. 6 Wormholt | 23,799 | 242 | 10.2 |
No. 7 College Park and Latimer | 12,109 | 161 | 13.3 |
LONDON AND THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS.
Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population to the middle of 1921. | Births. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Zymotic Deaths. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Death- rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths of Infants under one year to 1,000 births. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
LONDON | 4,576,505 | 18.71 | 12.1* | 69* | |
Padington | 146,400 | 17.1 | 0.9 | 13.1 | 78 |
Kensington | 178,700 | 16.2 | 0.34 | 13.0 | 75 |
Hammersmith | 131.203 | 17.9 | 0.7 | 12.4 | 72 |
Fulham | 163,100 | 18.2 | 0.5 | 11.1 | 72 |
Chelsea | 64,580 | 14.4 | 0.8 | 13.2 | 64 |
City of Westminster | 143,000 | 11.6 | 0.4 | 12.1 | 59 |
St. Marylebone | 105,300 | 14.5 | 1.01 | 13.6 | 78 |
Hampstead | 87,600 | 13.5 | 0.09 | 11.7 | 56 |
St. Pancras | 214,300 | 18.8 | 1.0 | 13.0 | 74 |
Islington | 337,400 | 19.8 | 0.66 | 12.3 | 66 |
Stoke Newington | 52,920 | 16.6 | 0.7 | 11.3 | 58 |
Hackney | 226,900 | 18.5 | 0.45 | 11.4 | 60 |
Holborn | 43,250 | 13.36 | 0.67 | 12.2 | 81 |
Finsbury | 77,180 | 21.5 | 1.27 | 14.1 | 75 |
City of London | 13,300 | 7.1 | 0.14 | 11.3 | 117 |
Shoreditch | 106,500 | 23.7 | 1.2 | 13.7 | 87 |
Bethnal Green | 119,200 | 22.1 | 1.1 | 12.4 | 78 |
Stepney | 254,340 | 21.4 | 0.78 | 12.2 | 74 |
Poplar | 167,309 | 22.9 | 0.8 | 12.1 | 72 |
South wark | 187,714 | 22.5 | 1.5 | 14.2 | 71 |
Bermondsey | 122,100 | 23.8 | — | 13.6 | 78 |
Lambeth | 309,300 | 25.5 | 0.6 | 12.5 | 50 |
Battersea | 171,000 | 18.4 | 0.7 | 11.7 | 62 |
Wandsworth | 33S.200 | 14.57 | 0.47 | 11.03 | 57 |
Camberwell | 273,700 | 18.8 | 0.7 | 11.4 | 70 |
Deptford | 115,200 | 20.6 | 0.7 | 12.0 | 76 |
Greenwich | 102,470 | 20.09 | 0.69 | 11.17 | 73 |
Lewisham | 184,900 | 16.3 | 0.3 | 104 | 47 |
Woolwich | 139.980 | 18.5 | 0.5 | 11. | 65 |
*These provisional figures are taken from a table furnished by the
Registrar-General. Other figures supplied by Medical Officer of Health
of borough concerned.