Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The eleventh annual report of the health, sanitary condition, etc., etc., of the District of Woolwich for the year 1899
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Towns. | Estimated Population middle of 1899. | Deaths | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. * | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Enteric and Typhoid Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Deaths of Children under one year of age to 1000 Births. | Rate per cent, of Uncertified Deaths. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. * | ||||||||||||||
WOOLWICH | 41542 | 1260 | 902 | 30.3 | 21.0 | 2-44 | 103 | ... | 13 | 4 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 47 | 167 | 3.2 |
West Ham | 300241 | 8891 | 5004 | 297 | 16.7 | 3.50 | 1049 | ... | 204 | 19 | 183 | 101 | 77 | 465 | 197 | 1.0 |
Croydon | 127759 | 3204 | 1916 | 25.1 | 15.0 | 1.56 | 200 | ... | 18 | 3 | 17 | 40 | 9 | 113 | 154 | ... |
Brighton | 123226 | 3058 | 2329 | 24.9 | 19.0 | 2.50 | 307 | ... | 1 | 10 | 61 | 19 | 24 | 192 | 173 | 0.4 |
Portsmouth | 190741 | 4980 | 3747 | 26.2 | 19.7 | 3.51 | 665 | ... | 52 | 21 | 121 | ... | 76 | 333 | 197 | 0.9 |
Plymouth | 100637 | 2992 | 2180 | 29.8 | 21.7 | 1.93 | 193 | .... | 11 | 3 | 20 | 51 | 7 | 101 | 190 | 0.3 |
Bristol | 320911 | 9345 | 5840 | 20.2 | 18.2 | 1.86 | 595 | ... | 41 | 13 | 33 | 119 | 34 | 355 | 158 | 0.6 |
Cardiff | 185826 | 5309 | 2857 | 28.6 | 15.4 | 2.06 | 382 | ... | 11 | 3 | 61 | 119 | 19 | 169 | 184 | 0.7 |
Swansea | 103722 | 2870 | 1877 | 27.7 | 18.1 | 2.67 | 276 | ... | 15 | 11 | 141 | 28 | 8 | 73 | 166 | 1.3 |
Wolverhampton | 88821 | 3!23 | 1932 | 35.3 | 21.8 | 2'.56 | 227 | ... | 2 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 46 | 134 | 184 | 0.'5 |
Birmingham | 514956 | 17609 | 10704 | 34.'3 | 20.8 | 2.96 | 1522 | ... | 197 | 30 | 147 | 166 | 125 | 857 | 191 | 2.1 |
Norwich | 113266 | 3290 | 1953 | 29.1 | 17 .3 | 2.40 | 271 | ... | 5 | 18 | 40 | 46 | 20 | 142 | 179 | 0.9 |
Leicester | 213851 | 6273 | 3777 | 29.4 | 17.7 | 3.31 | 706 | ... | 28 | 43 | 227 | 89 | 29 | 290 | 195 | 2.2 |
Nottingham | 239384 | 6910 | 4772 | 28 .9 | 20.0 | 3.33 | 797 | ... | 138 | 56 | 32 | 56 | 115 | 400 | 210 | 1.0 |
Derby | 106401 | 2984 | 1796 | 28.1 | 16.9 | 1.65 | 174 | ... | 23 | 25 | 8 | 9 | 15 | 94 | 162 | ... |
Birkenhead | 115162 | 3437 | 2201 | 29.9 | 19.2 | 2.65 | 304 | ... | 51 | 7 | 24 | 88 | 49 | 85 | 186 | 0.7 |
Liverpool | 634212 | 22490 | 16686 | 35.6 | 26.4 | 3.77 | 2383 | 1 | 319 | 162 | 212 | 307 | 199 | 1183 | 198 | 0.8 |
Bolton | 162221 | 4838 | 3218 | 29.9 | I9.9 | 3.18 | 511 | ... | 98 | 35 | 14 | 43 | 56 | 265 | 181 | 0.4 |
Manchester | 543902 | 17692 | 13347 | 32.6 | 24.6 | 3.'92 | 2130 | ... | 703 | 45 | 83 | 227 | 77 | 995 | 206 | 0.8 |
Salford | 218244 | 7378 | 5181 | 33.9 | 23.8 | 4.32 | 940 | ... | 211 | 49 | 75 | 99 | 77 | 429 | 209 | 0.7 |
Oldham | 150772 | 3732 | 3078 | 24.8 | 20.5 | 2.l6 | 323 | ... | 48 | 46 | 24 | 54 | 19 | 132 | 198 | 0.2 |
Burnley | 113081 | 2848 | 2214 | 25.3 | 19.6 | 4.35 | 491 | ... | 88 | 76 | 26 | 74 | 25 | 202 | 269 | 1.5 |
Blackburn | 135154 | 3643 | 2579 | 27.0 | 19.1 | 2.67 | 360 | ... | 42 | 23 | 72 | 52 | 41 | 130 | 189 | 3.5 |
Preston | 117622 | 3526 | 2679 | 30.1 | 22'.8 | 3.'93 | 462 | ... | 44 | 11 | 39 | 59 | 39 | 270 | 255 | 3.i |
Huddersfield | 103464 | 2374 | 1671 | 23.0 | 16.2 | 1.79 | 185 | ... | 11 | 6 | 5 | 57 | 21 | 85 | 152 | 2.0 |
Halifax | 97721 | 2248 | 1779 | 23.1 | 18.3 | 1.50 | 146 | ... | 13 | 26 | 15 | 22 | 24 | 46 | 159 | 3.7 |
Bradford | 236241 | 5506 | 4344 | 23.4 | 18.4 | 2.33 | 540 | ... | 76 | 106 | 27 | 65 | 46 | 229 | 181 | 0.9 |
Leeds | 423889 | 12937 | 8090 | 30.6 | 19.1 | 2.79 | 1178 | ... | 157 | 64 | 328 | 161 | 71 | 397 | 171 | 2.6 |
Sheffield | 361169 | 12446 | 7980 | 34.6 | 22.2 | 4.39 | 1583 | ... | 220 | 91 | 460 | 57 | 85 | 570 | 194 | 2.9 |
Hull | 234270 | 8003 | 4508 | 34.3 | 19.3 | 3.66 | 856 | 141 | 120 | 39 | 29 | 144 | 142 | 34i | 175 | 2.1 |
Sunderland | 14561!3 | 5184 | 3119 | 35.7 | 21.5 | 2.50 | 362 | ... | 40 | 36 | 9 | 56 | 55 | 166 | 175 | 1.8 |
Gateshead | 106552 | 3890 | 1997 | 36.6 | 18.8 | 2.09 | 222 | ... | 21 | 93 | 8 | 46 | 15 | 119 | 177 | 0.7 |
Newcastle-on-Tyne | 228625 | 7164 | 4687 | 31'.4 | 20.'6 | 1..82 | 413 | ... | 80 | 26 | 29 | 87 | 23 | 170 | 193 | 0.9 |
See footnote page 3.