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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Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated resident population (mid-1937) | Live births, annual rate per 1,000 population. | Deathrate per 1,000 population. | Deaths of infants under one year to 1,000 births. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
LONDON | 4,094,500 | 13·4 | 12·5 | 60 | |
West Districts. | Crude | Adjusted | |||
Paddington | 138,300 | 13·65 | 13·05 | 12·91 | 66 |
Kensington | 175,600 | 12·1 | 13·3 | 12·4 | 83 |
Hammersmith | 126,500 | 15·1 | 12·6 | 13·0 | 68 |
Fulham | 138,900 | 13·9 | 13·08 | 13·2 | 56 |
Chelsea | 56,510 | 10·8 | 14·1 | 12·0 | 59 |
City of Westminster | 124,300 | 8·2 | 11·5 | 11·8 | 58·7 |
North Districts. | |||||
St. Marylebone | 92,110 | 9·36 | 13·10 | 12·98 | 73 |
Hampstead | 90,690 | 11·2 | 11·6 | 10·9 | 54 |
St. Pancras | 181,900 | 13·0 | 12·7 | 13·0 | 62 |
Islington | 295,400 | 15·25 | 12·9 | 13·02 | 66 |
Stoke Newington | 50,250 | 14·9 | 12·5 | 12·0 | 37·5 |
Hackney | 206,700 | 13·8 | 11·1 | 11·7 | 43·38 |
Central Districts. | |||||
Holborn | 34,600 | 8·09 | 11·85 | 12·68 | 79 |
Finsbury | 58,700 | 13·8 | 14·6 | 15·9 | 71 |
City of London | 8,980 | 6·1 | 11·2 | 12·4 | 36·3 |
East Districts. | |||||
Shoreditch | 82,240 | 14·86 | 12·47 | 13·72 | 54 |
Bethnal Green | 94,560 | 13·3 | 12·5 | 14·1 | 54 |
Stepney | 203,100 | 13·5 | 12·2 | 14·2 | 60·5 |
Poplar | 136,800 | 15·5 | 12·6 | 14·0 | 61 |
South Districts. | |||||
Southwark | 147,400 | 14·7 | 13·6 | 14·1 | 64 |
Bermondsey | 98,790 | 14·4 | 12·3 | 14·0 | 59 |
Lambeth | 273,800 | 14·1 | 13·2 | 13·0 | 68 |
Battersea | 143,500 | 14·94 | 12·89 | 12·76 | 70·43 |
Wandsworth | 341,700 | 11·53 | 12·36 | 11·43 | 62 |
Camberwell | 224,800 | 14·08 | 12·83 | 12·83 | 58 |
Deptford | 96,580 | 15·1 | 11·8 | 12·3 | 45 |
Greenwich | 95,990 | 13·88 | 12·03 | 12·27 | 50 |
Lewisham | 226,000 | 13·9 | 10·8 | 10·9 | 46 |
Woolwich | 149,400 | 14·2 | 11·1 | 11·7 | 40 |
Note.—The information relating to London supplied by the RegistrarGeneral
and that for individual Boroughs by the Medical Officers of Health.