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Battersea 1938

[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 Popular and re-produced by his kind permission.)

Cities and Boroughs.Estimated resident population (mid-1938)Live births, annual rate per 1,000 popula-tion.Death-rate per 1,000 population.Deaths of infants under one year to 1,000 births.
LONDON4,062,80013.411.456
West Districts.CrudeAdjusted
Paddington137,40013.7411.3311.2166
Kensington174,10012.811.710.978
Hammersmith125,10015.511.311.661
Fulham137,70014.211.611.751
Chelsea56,05010.213.511.580
City of Westminster124,4008.310.410.754.9
North Districts.
St. Marylebone90,6808.8411.1211.060
Hampstead90,48011.711.410.757
St. Pancras179,40013.511.511.764
Islington292,30015.3211.912.0265
Stoke Newington50,48013.811.010.543.2
Hackney205,20013.410.711.256.46
Central Districts.
Holborn34,3507.2810.5111.2584
Finsbury56,96013.012.914.173
City of London8,7806.610.711.851.8
East Districts.
Shoreditch80,36014.711.412.564
Bethnal Green92,91014.211.312.859.3
Stepney200,50013.0611.0512.9260.7
Poplar134,40014.911.412.760
South Districts.
Southwark145,30014 012 . 513.457
Bermondsey97,42014.811.012.5445
Lambeth272,80014.0911.911.751
Battersea141,70014.9211.8211.7053.45
Wandsworth340,10011.9211.1710.3846
Camberwell222,40013.9712.2712.2761
Deptford95,46014.411.812.354
Greenwich95,77013.6410.8911142
Lewisham229,00013.910.4910.547
Woolwich150,90013.610.411.050

Note.— The information relating to London supplied by the RegistrarGeneral
and that for individual Boroughs by the Medical Officers of Health.