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 III. (1925).
Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population to the middle of year. | 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 | 4,602,000 | 18.0* | ? | 11.7* | 67* |
Paddington | 147,100 | 15.9 | 0.4 | 12.1 | 72 |
Kensington | 179,600 | 15.8 | 0.5 | 13.2 | 78 |
Hammersmith | 134,500 | 17.5 | 0.7 | 11.9 | 65 |
Fulham | 163,700 | 16.9 | 0.5 | 10.7 | 76 |
Chelsea | 64,820 | 14.4 | 0.4 | 13.6 | 69 |
City of Westminster | 139,600 | 10.7 | 0.37 | 12.3 | 69 |
St. Marylebone | 106,100 | 14.1 | 0.5 | 11.6 | 63 |
Hampstead | 88,040 | 12.0 | 0.19 | 10.2 | 55 |
St. Pancras | 215,900 | 17.9 | 0.8 | 12.7 | 72 |
Islington | 339,200 | 19.4 | 0.39 | 12.26 | 63 |
Stoke Newington | 53,190 | 15.8 | 0.34 | 11.2 | 61 |
Hackney | 228,300 | 17.9 | 0.49 | 10.9 | 65 |
Hoi born | 43,315 | 12.16 | 0.43 | 12.51 | 63 |
Finsbury | 77,560 | 22.6 | 0.8 | 13.6 | 59.8 |
Oity of London | 13,340 | 7.5 | 0.53 | 11.8 | 60 |
Shoreditch | 107,300 | 24.6 | 1.2 | 13.3 | 88 |
Bethnal Green | 119,800 | 21.9 | 1.3 | 12.0 | 80.6 |
Stepney | 255,370 | 21.2 | 0.94 | 11.9 | 73 |
Poplar | 168,500 | 22.7 | 0.9 | 117 | 75 |
Southwark | 189,000 | 21.2 | 0.9 | 13.1 | 77 |
Bermondsey | 123,000 | 23.4 | 12.6 | 78 | |
Lambeth | 311,100 | 24.6 | 0.5 | 12.1 | 44.8 |
Battersea | 172,100 | 18.5 | 0.4 | 10.5 | 58.1 |
Wandsworth | 340,900 | 14.31 | 0.33 | 10.43 | 52 |
Camberwell | 275,400 | 17.7 | 0.5 | 11.1 | 64.7 |
Deptford | 115,900 | 18.8 | 0.8 | 12.1 | 63 |
Greenwich | 103,936 | 18.8 | 0.57 | 11.23 | 70 |
Lewisham | 185,600 | 15.6 | 0.3 | 10.3 | 55 |
Woolwich | 140,740 | 18.3 | 0.4 | 10.8 | 55 |
*These provisional figures are taken from a table furnished by the Registrar.
General. Other figures supplied by Medical Officers of Health.