Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Comparative Statistics, London Boroughs.
(Compiled by the Medical Officer of Health of Poplar and
re-produced by his kind permission.)
Cities
and
Boroughs.
Estimated
resident
population
(Mid-1936)
Live
births,
annual
rate per
1,000
population.
Deathrate
per
1,000
population.
Deaths
of
infants
under
one year
to 1,000
births.
LONDON
4,141,100
13·6
12·3
66
West Districts.
Crude
Adjusted
Paddington
139,200
13·8
12·98
12·81
72
Kensington
176,100
12·7
12·5
11·7
73
Hammersmith
127,700
15·1
12·5
12·9
60
Fulham
141,300
14·9
12·6
12·7
64
Chelsea
56,500
11·3
13·7
11·6
53
City of Westminster
124,100
8·5
11·1
11·4
65·8
North Districts.
St. Marylebone
92,400
9·8
12·65
12·52
75·06
Hampstead
90,700
10·4
10·2
9·6
65·8
St. Pancras
183,900
13·0
13·5
13·8
79
Islington
304,100
15·2
12·44
12·56
61
Stoke Newington
50,350
13·7
11·4
10·9
44·6
Hackney
209,100
14·4
12·0
12·6
62·9
Central Districts.
Holborn
34,850
8·29
11·99
12·83
62
Finsbury
60,800
13·8
14·0
15·3
81
City of London
9,100
7·5
11·4
12·65
147
East Districts.
Shoreditch
85,400
14·9
12·8
14·1
75
Bethnal Green
96,900
13·5
12·7
14·3
98
Stepney
207,800
14·7
12·6
14·7
100·09
Poplar
140,300
15·0
12·5
13·8
72
South Districts.
Southwark
152,200
14·8
13·1
14·02
59
Bermondsey
100,400
15·4
12·8
14·6
60
Lambeth
277,500
13·9
12·5
12·4
59
Battersea
145,500
14·6
13·06
12·93
59·21
Wandsworth
343,000
11·5
11·79
10·96
58
Camberwell
229,300
13·9
12·64
12·64
58·86
Deptford
98,900
15·7
12·2
12·6
50
Greenwich
95,900
13·8
11·36
11·58
49
Lewisham
224,000
13·0
10·8
10·9
55
Woolwich
146,500
13·8
11·2
11·8
59
Note.—The information relating to London supplied by the RegistrarGeneral
and that for individual Boroughs by the Medical Officers of Health.