Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1897
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Death-rates (General are Zymotic) for London
Metropolitan
Districts.
Death-rate
(corrected).
Zymotic Deathrate
(corrected).
Infantile Mortality
Rate.
Diarrhœa Rate.
TYhoid Fever
Rate.
Diphtheria Rate.
Scarlet Fever
Rate.
Phthisis Rate.
Registration
London
17.7
2.56
158
0.92
0.13
0.50
0.17
1.71
West.
Paddington
14.4
1.94
149
0.81
0.07
0.51
0.17
1.13
Kensington
15.7
1.78
166
0.70
0.12
0.47
0.18
1.44
Hammersmith
16.7
1.99
171
1.21
0.08
0.28
0.10
1.38
Fulham
17.0
3.04
162
1.24
0.10
0.53
0.22
1.54
Chelsea
17.8
2.55
161
1.04
0.15
0.56
0.18
1.81
St. George's, Hanover
Square
13.2
1.10
133
0.31
0.12
0.21
0.09
1.16
St. Margaret and St.
John, Westminster...
19.0
2.47
166
0.89
0.11
0.43
0.25
2.70
St. James', Westminster
17.5
1.87
163
0.40
0.13
0.13
0.36
2.27
North.
St. Marylebone
18.3
1.61
136
0.77
0.10
0.33
0.06
1.75
Hampstead
11.8
1.16
127
0.36
0.06
0.22
0.08
0.74
St. Pancras
18.7
2.47
168
0.87
0.16
0.47
1.10
2.01
Islington
15.8
1.91
136
0.54
0.13
0.38
0.18
1.44
Stoke Newington
14.3
2.12
121
0.56
0.29
0.56
0.06
1.17
Hackney
16.5
2.90
147
0.91
0.16
0.62
0.17
1.43
Central.
St. Giles
18.4
1.63
146
0.37
0.16
0.19
0.19
2.99
St. Martin's-in-theFields
16.3
1.19
178
0.16
0.08
0.24
0.16
2.60
Strand
21.3
2.06
161
0.77
0.17
0.21
0.13
3.36
Holborn
23.1
2.79
184
1.15
0.16
0.53
0.13
2.76
Clerkenwell
22.1
3.61
184
1.00
0.17
0.70
0.21
2.35
St. Luke
25.7
3.82
149
1.24
0.10
0.51
0.32
3.11
City of London
21.3
1.66
130
0.17
0.30
0.33
0.27
1.89
and the Metropolitan Districts during 1897.
Metropolitan
Districts.
Death-rate
(corrected).
Zymotic Deathrate
(corrected).
Infantile Mortality
Rate.
Diarrhœa Rate.
Typhoid Fever
Rate.
Diphtheria Rate.
Scarlet Fever
Rate.
Phthisis Rate.
East.
Shoreditch
21.6
4.07
183
1.55
0.16
0.64
0.24
2.03
Bethnal Green
21.4
3.41
171
1.09
0.13
0.65
0.19
1.98
Whitechapel
20.4
2.16
148
0.67
0.10
0.43
0.19
2.52
St. George-in-the-East
26.4
4.27
197
1.26
0.21
0.59
0.29
2.76
Limehouse
25.1
3.54
193
1.05
0.07
0.50
0.21
2.55
Mile End Old Town
18.7
2.97
149
0.88
0.21
0.56
0.11
1.40
Poplar
19.8
3.07
170
1.03
0.18
0.71
0.17
1.88
South.
St. Saviour's
24.6
3.66
195
1.05
0.08
0.48
0.28
3.22
St. George-the-Martyr,
Southwark
23.7
4.35
189
1.81
0.17
0.46
0.23
2.84
Newington
21.2
3.59
177
1.35
0-07
0.53
0.27
2.21
St. Olave
22.1
2.96
154
1.31
0.09
0.17
0.17
2.88
Bermondsey
22.1
4.35
190
1.45
0.15
0.73
0.40
2.04
Rotherhithe
18.9
3.26
174
1.21
0.05
0.52
0.54
1.58
Lambeth
17.5
2.65
151
0.99
0.09
0.48
0.14
1.67
Battersea
16.2
2.79
162
0.83
0.11
0.63
0.28
1.49
Wandsworth
13.4
1.91
135
0.74
0.08
0.57
0.15
1.14
Camberwell
16.6
2.91
159
1.01
0.12
0.66
0.12
1.50
Greenwich
17.2
2.27
157
1.01
0.16
0.39
0.18
1.48
Lee
13.2
1.43
135
0.56
0.08
0.43
0.08
1.10
Lewisham (excluding
Penge)
12.8
1.71
129
0.69
0.08
0.42
0.10
0.94
Woolwich
17.8
2.54
158
1.21
0.10
0.80
0.19
1.91
Plumstead
13.7
1.97
116
1.00
0.05
0.39
0.10
1.56
N.B.—These Returns are taken from the Registrar-General's
Annual Summary.