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 Lewisham Borough]
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Table showing the Population, Birth. Death and Infantile Mortality rates during 1936 in the Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs.
Borough | Estd. Res. Population (mid-1936) | Live Births rate per 1,000 popn. | Death Rate per 1,000 popn. | Infantile Mortality rate per 1,000 live births | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
crude | adjusted | ||||
West Districts | |||||
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 |
Westminster | 124,100 | 8.5 | 11.1 | 11.4 | 65.8 |
North Districts | |||||
St. Marylebone | 92,400 | 9.8 | 12.6 | 12.5 | 75 |
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 | 15.24 | 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 |
Bethnel 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 | — | 59 |
Bermondsev | 100,400 | 15.4 | 12.8 | 14.6 | 60 |
Lambeth | 277,500 | 13.9 | 12.5 | 12.4 | 59 |
Battersea | 145,500 | 14.63 | 13.06 | 12.93 | 59.21 |
Wandsworth | 343,000 | 11.40 | 11.79 | 10.96 | 58 |
Camberwell | 229,300 | 13.93 | 12.64 | 12.64 | 58.86 |
Deptford | 98,900 | 15.7 | 12.2 | 12.6 | 50 |
Greenwich | 95,900 | 13.82 | 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 |