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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Limehouse 1898

Report on the sanitary condition of the Limehouse District (comprising the Parishes of Limehouse, Shadwell, and Wapping, and the Hamlet of Ratcliff) for the year 1898

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Table: TABLE II.Table shewing the Annual Birth and Death Rates, Death Rates of Children in a Thousand Deaths for the Year 1898, and 10 Years preceeding.

TABLE II.

Table shewing the Annual Birth and Death Rates, Death Rates of Children in a Thousand Deaths for the Year 1898, and 10 Years preceeding.

In the Year.Birth Rate per 1,000 of the Population.Corrected Death Rate per 1,000 of the Population.Deaths of Children under 1 year; per 1,000 of Registered Births.Deaths of Children under 1 year; per 1,000 of Total Deaths.Deaths of Children under 5 years; per 1000 of Total Deaths.
189832.523.7208280438
189734.125.1193264420.5
189634.623.7182265478
189535.327.3222289466
189433.124.2161234441
189333.927.7201247400
189233.625.5188249459
189134.626.0174232376
189030.826.8209240445
188935.022.7159246427
188835.524.6207299494
Average of 10 years, 1888-98.34.025.3189256440