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 IV. (1923).
Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population to the middle of 1923. | Notifications. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Births. 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. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LONDON | 4,564,109 | .. | 20.2* | ? | 11.2* | 60* |
Paddington | 146,200 | .. | 17.9 | 0.4 | 11.7 | 69 |
Kensington | 178,500 | .. | 17.5 | 0.69 | 12.3 | 70 |
Hammersmith | 133,600 | .. | 20.2 | 0.5 | 11.0 | 64 |
Fulham | 161,600 | .. | 18.4 | 0.5 | 10.5 | 64 |
Chelsea | 64,480 | .. | 15.1 | 0.4 | 12.2 | 58 |
City of Westminster | 140,430 | .. | 12.5 | 0.09 | 10.6 | 46.6 |
St. Marylebone | 105,400 | .. | 15.8 | 0.48 | 11.7 | 66 |
Hampstead | 87,410 | .. | 14.3 | 0.4 | 10.3 | 42 |
St. Pancras | 214,400 | .. | 20.3 | 0.6 | 12.1 | 63 |
Islington | 336,600 | .. | 21.1 | 0.38 | 11.6 | 66 |
Stoke Newington | 52,820 | .. | 18.2 | 0.23 | 10.2 | 46 |
Hackney | 226,400 | .. | 19.6 | 0.23 | 10.6 | 58 |
Holborn | 43,376 | .. | 13.67 | 0.53 | 12.1 | 79 |
Finsbury | 77,230 | .. | 23.9 | 0.76 | 13.03 | 60.7 |
City of London | 13,480 | .. | 8.2 | 0.22 | 11.2 | 60 |
Shoreditch | 106,200 | .. | 26.9 | 0.8 | 13.0 | 82 |
Bethnal Green | 118,700 | .. | 24.2 | 0.88 | 11.3 | 68.7 |
Stepney | 253,850 | .. | 22.8 | 0.7 | 11.0 | 62 |
Poplar | 166,400 | .. | 25 .6 | 0.6 | 11.3 | 60 |
Southwark | 187,464 | .. | 24.3 | 0.8 | 12.8 | 68 |
Bermondsey | 121,700 | .. | 24.0 | 12.2 | 76 | |
Lambeth | 308,500 | .. | 27.04 | 0.4 | 11.2 | 42.7 |
Battersea | 170,600 | .. | 20.1 | 0.67 | 10.8 | 49.5 |
Wandsworth | 336,100 | .. | 16.28 | 0.39 | 10.14 | 52.5 |
Camberwell | 272,300 | .. | 20.7 | 0.7 | 11.0 | 56.7 |
Deptford | 114,900 | .. | 21.1 | 0.65 | 11.1 | 59 |
Greenwich | 102,777 | .. | 20.51 | 0.46 | 10.95 | 60 |
Lewisham | 182,400 | .. | 18.07 | 0.4 | 10.14 | 43 |
Woolwich | 140,000 | .. | 20.5 | 0.2 | 9.9 | 43 |
* These provisional figures are taken from a table furnished by the Registrar.
General. Other figures supplied by Medical Officer of Health of borough concerned.