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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

Lewisham 1911

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

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Table: Table 11.Metropolitan Boroughs.— Population, Birth and Death Rates and Infantile Mortality.

Table 11.

Metropolitan Boroughs.— Population, Birth and Death Rates and Infantile Mortality.

Boroughs.Population estimated to the middle of 1911.Births.Deaths.Birth Rate.Death Rate.Deaths of Infants under I year of age.
Number.Rate per 1000 Births.
County of London45213011117386782624.815.814440129
West.
Paddington1425133038189721.414.3387127
Kensington1722033252234918.914.7432133
Hammersmith1217662927189124.116.2428146
Fulham1537054121220326.915.0517125
Chelsea661891269102019.216.0138109
City of Westminster1596622358138314.814.0244103
North.
St. Marylebone1177612376177220.216.1257108
Hampstead85589127632314.910.99978
St. Pancras2179415559337125.616.2624112
Islington3272038108485324.815.51032127
Stoke Newington50614104565820.713.6107102
Hackney2226235226318523.515.0621119
Central.
Holborn4909294576819.316.9109115
Finsbury875662674172830.620.5418156
City of London1946622629311.616.628124
East.
Shoreditch1111993533222631.921.1601170
Bethnal Green1281444029232031.518.3610151
Stepney2793098743483331.418.11261144
Poplar1622745015305431.019.5787157
South.
South wark1915315693350929.819.2818144
Bermondsey1257753908231131.218.9609156
Lambeth2979577292443024.515.4897123
Battersea1677124372239126.115.3540124
Wandsworth3134536747374321.612.6823122
Camberwell2613806399372424.514.8696109
Deptford1094723000170627.516.4425142
Greenwich959732376140924.815.0305128
Lewisham1616773420184221.211.4354104
Woolwich1214872811155523.213.727397