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 V. (1937).
Cities and Boboughs. | Estimated Resident population (Mid-1937) | Live Births, Annual rate per 1,000 population. | Death-rate per 1,000 population. | Deaths of Infants under one year to 1,000 births. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
LONDON | 4,094,500 | 13.3 | 12.3 | 60 | |
Paddington | 138,300 | 13.65 | 13.05 | 12.91 | 66 |
Kensington | 175,600 | 12.1 | 13.3 | 12.4 | 83 |
Hammersmith | 126,500 | 15.1 | 12.6 | 13.0 | 68 |
Fulham | 138,900 | 13.9 | 13.08 | 13.2 | 56 |
Chelsea | 56,510 | 10.8 | 14.1 | 12.0 | 59 |
City of Westminster | 124,300 | 8.2 | 11.5 | 11.8 | 58.7 |
St. Marylebone | 92,110 | 9.36 | 13.10 | 12.98 | 73 |
Hampstead | 90,690 | 11.2 | 11.6 | 10.9 | 54 |
St. Pancras | 181,900 | 13.0 | 12.7 | 13.0 | 62 |
Islington | 295,400 | 15.25 | 12.9 | 13.02 | 66 |
Stoke Newington | 50,250 | 14.11 | 12.5 | 12.0 | 37.5 |
Hackney | 206,700 | 13.8 | 11.1 | 11.7 | 43.38 |
Holborn | 34,600 | 8.09 | 11.85 | 12.68 | 79 |
Finsbury | 58,700 | 13.8 | 14.6 | 15.9 | 71 |
City of London | 8,980 | 6.1 | 11.2 | 12.4 | 36.3 |
Shoreditch | 82,240 | 14.86 | 12.47 | 13.72 | 54 |
Bethnal Green | 94,560 | 13.3 | 12.5 | 14.1 | 54 |
Stepney | 203,100 | 13.5 | 12.2 | 14.2 | 60.5 |
136,800 | 15.5 | 12.6 | 14.0 | 61 | |
Southwark | 147,400 | 14.7 | 13.6 | 14.1 | 64 |
Bermondsey | 98,790 | 14.4 | 12.3 | 14.0 | 59 |
Lambeth | 273,800 | 14.1 | 13.2 | 13.0 | 68 |
Battersea | 143,500 | 14.94 | 12.89 | 12.76 | 70.43 |
Wandsworth | 341,700 | 11.53 | 12.36 | 11.43 | 62 |
Camberwell | 224,800 | 14.08 | 12.83 | 12.83 | 58 |
Deptford | 96,580 | 15.1 | 11.8 | 12.3 | 45 |
Greenwich | 95,990 | 13.88 | 12.03 | 12.27 | 50 |
Lewisham | 226,000 | 13.9 | 10.8 | 10.9 | 46 |
Woolwich | 149,400 | 14.2 | 11.1 | 11.7 | 40 |
Note.—The information relating to London supplied by the Registrar-General
and that for individual Boroughs by the Medical Officers of Health.