[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough] page 17

Greenwich 1933

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]

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It has been customary to include in the Report tables compiled
by the Registrar General showing the comparative rates for Births,
Deaths, and Infantile Mortality of the various Metropolitan Boroughs.

Table: Unfortunately at the time of going to press this information is not to hand, but through the courtesy of Dr. Allan Young, the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, who has obtained the particulars direct from the Boroughs concerned, I am enabled to give the comparative figures in the following table.

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Unfortunately at the time of going to press this information is not to hand, but through the courtesy of Dr. Allan Young, the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, who has obtained the particulars direct from the Boroughs concerned, I am enabled to give the comparative figures in the following table.

Borough	Population (R.-G.'s est.)	Birth Rate	Death Rate	Infant Mortality Rate
West Districts.
Paddington	141,900	13.41	13.36	85
Kensington	181,100	12.0	12.9	72
Hammersmith	131,400	13.9	12.9	65
Fulham	148,200	13.07	13.00	65
Chelsea	58,850	10.6	13.6	78
City of Westminster	126,300	8.7	12.4	68
North Districts.
St. Marylebone	94,080	9.71	12.2	56
Hampstead	90,380	9.6	11.0	38
St. Pancras	190,900	13.6	13.7	58
Islington	319,100	14.35	12.40	63
Stoke Newington	51,120	12.6	12.3	46
Hackney	214,300	14.0	11.5	50
Central Districts.
Holborn	36,050	9.49	13.48	70
Finsbury	66,640	15.1	12.8	50
East Districts.
Shoreditch	93,550	16.0	13.0	74
Bethnal Green	104,200	14.3	12.5	66
Stepney	219,100	15.1	12.9	65
Poplar	149,300	15.4	12.4	54
South Districts.
Southwark	164,700	14.2	13.9	63
Bermondsey	107,300	14.0	12.5	61
Lambeth	289,000	13.6	13.1	63
Battersea	154,000	14.7	12.49	49
Wandsworth	350,200	10.93	11.49	50
Camberwell	243,700	13.32	12.33	49
Deptford	102,800	14.8	12.1	54
Greenwich	97,830	13.7	11.9	66
Lewisham	221,100	12.2	10.2	39
Woolwich	146,200	12.6	11.18	62

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