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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TABLE XIII.
Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1904. | 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 | 4,648,950 | 61 | 2.18 | 16.6 | 146 |
Paddington | 140,975 | 4.7 | 1.56 | 13.8 | 136 |
Kensington | 179,236 | 3.7 | 1.45 | 14.3 | 150 |
Hammersmith | 117,412 | 5.7 | 2.53 | 15.7 | 152 |
Fulham | 152,482 | 5.1 | 2.49 | 15.4 | 153 |
Chelsea | 74,329 | 3.2 | 1.49 | 16.5 | 156 |
City of Westminster | 177,321 | 3.7 | 0.87 | 13.5 | 125 |
St. Marylebone | 130,337 | 5.1 | 1.51 | 16.2 | 94 |
Hampstead | 86,663 | 3.7 | 0.66 | 10.2 | 113 |
St. Patterns | 235.936 | 6.8 | 2.01 | 17.4 | 150 |
Islington | 341,044 | 5.7 | 1.75 | 15.4 | 129 |
Stoke Newington | 52,445 | 5.6 | 1.13 | 13.3 | 114 |
Hackney .. | 226,266 | 8.5 | 2 13 | 14.9 | 142 |
Holborn | 57,161 | 4.8 | 1.80 | 18.5 | 109 |
Finsbury | 98,958 | 6.6 | 2.57 | 21.3 | 140 |
City of London | 23,482 | 4.7 | 0.60 | 16.7 | 104 |
Shoreditch | 117,033 | 6.7 | 3.20 | 20.4 | 188 |
Bethnal Green | 130,207 | 11.6 | 2.95 | 19.3 | 167 |
Stepney | 303,791 | 9.4 | 2.84 | 19.4 | 155 |
Poplar | 169,519 | 11.9 | 3.16 | 18.6 | 152 |
Southwark | 207,937 | 5.4 | 3.13 | 20.1 | 174 |
Bermondsey | 129,397 | 7.2 | 3.52 | 20.0 | 172 |
Lambeth | 310,359 | 4.5 | 2 .10 | 15.8 | 138 |
Battersea | 175,465 | 4.9 | 2.62 | 14.5 | 147 |
Wandsworth | 257,448 | 6.0 | 1.73 | 13.4 | 122 |
Camberwell | 268,384 | 6.2 | 1.90 | 14.9 | 144 |
Deptford | 113,509 | 7.1 | 2.46 | 16.1 | 145 |
Greenwich | 101,651 | 5.0 | 2.26 | 14.4 | 142 |
Lewisham | 140,401 | 4.2 | 1.41 | 12.0 | 123 |
Woolwich | 123,416 | 6.1 | 2.40 | 14.3 | 135 |
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