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 Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1903. | Notifications. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Zymotic Deaths. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Death-rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths of Infants under one year to 1,000 births. |
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LONDON | 4,613,812 | 6.0 | 1.77 | 15.7 | 131 |
Paddington | 146,032 | 5.1 | 1.31 | 13.2 | 119 |
Kensington | 178,409 | 4.3 | 1.56 | 13.9 | 145 |
Hammersmith | 115,803 | 5.7 | 1.60 | 14.1 | 141 |
Fulham | 147,780 | 6.3 | 2.22 | 13.9 | 127 |
Chelsea | 74,169 | 1.14 | 15.3 | 142 | |
City of Westminster | 179,052 | 4.3 | 1.00 | 13.6 | 123 |
St. Marylebone | 131,234 | 6.9 | 1.60 | 16.4 | 96 |
Hampstead | 85,197 | 3.9 | 0.58 | 10.0 | 88 |
St. Paneras | 235,716 | 6.5 | 1.91 | 16.2 | 133 |
Islington | 339,137 | 5.1 | 1.45 | 14.3 | 126 |
Stoke Newington | 52,069 | 3.8 | 1.46 | 12.6 | 119 |
Hackney | 224,082 | 8.0 | 1 .78 | 13.9 | 119 |
Holborn | 57,845 | 6.0 | 1.44 | 18.6 | 95 |
Finsbury | 99,717 | 5.9 | 2.32 | 20.3 | 135 |
City of London | 24,539 | 5.1 | 0.86 | 14.6 | 136 |
Shoreditch | 117,513 | 5.7 | 2.90 | 19.4 | 171 |
Bethnal Green | 130,028 | 7.1 | 2.24 | 18.2 | 141 |
Stepney | 302,153 | 6.7 | 2.36 | 18.0 | 138 |
Poplar | 169,302 | 6.7 | 2.88 | 18.1 | 152 |
Southwark | 207,369 | 6.2 | 1.99 | 18.1 | 148 |
Bermondsey | 129,801 | 2.05 | 18.4 | 158 | |
Lambeth | 307,711 | 5.1 | 1.73 | 15.2 | 125 |
Battersea | 173,422 | 6.2 | 1.98 | 14.2 | 134 |
Wandsworth | 249,678 | 7.0 | 12.4 | 109 | |
Camberwell | 265,562 | 5.3 | 1.36 | 13.7 | 123 |
Deptford | 112,537 | 10.1 | 2.19 | 14.9 | 134 |
Greenwich | 99,824 | 5.0 | 1.74 | 13.3 | 127 |
Lewisham | 136,405 | 6.5 | 0.96 | 11.1 | 92 |
Woolwich | 121,478 | 5.7 | 1.10 | 13.5 | 108 |
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