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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Southwark 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 2.
Number of Births belonging to each ward, with the Birth-rates, and also the Infantile Mortality
and Zymotic Rate in the several Wards for 1905.
| WARD. | Births. | Infantile Mortality. | Zymotic Bates in the Wards. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Fe males. | Total. | Birth-rate. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Enteric Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | ||
| St. Mary's | 365 | 324 | 689 | 31.3 | 143 | 0.00 | 0.36 | 0.09 | 0.13 | 0.40 | 0.09 | 0.95 | 2.54 |
| St. Paul's | 244 | 286 | 530 | 24.9 | 128 | 0.00 | 0.65 | 0.18 | 0.23 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.51 | 2.06 |
| St. Peter's | 253 | 272 | 525 | 27.3 | 116 | 0.00 | 1.24 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.26 | 0.00 | 0.46 | 1.19 |
| St. John's | 353 | 369 | 722 | 32.3 | 162 | 0.00 | 1.07 | 0.22 | 0.17 | 0.44 | 0.04 | 1.25 | 1.83 |
| Trinity | 270 | 276 | 546 | 30.2 | 126 | 0.00 | 0'38 | 0.27 | 0.22 | 0.22 | 0.11 | 0.49 | 2.27 |
| All Saints' | 374 | 354 | 728 | 35.7 | 157 | 0.00 | 1.32 | 0.14 | 0.04 | 0.39 | 0.14 | 1.27 | 2.01 |
| St. Michael's | 366 | 405 | 771 | 30.6 | 146 | 0.00 | 0.70 | 0.19 | 0.31 | 0.39 | 0.03 | 0.91 | 1.94 |
| St. Jude's | 192 | 191 | 383 | 25.2 | 151 | 0.00 | 0.39 | 0.06 | 0.13 | 0.32 | 0.00 | 0.52 | 1.58 |
| St. George's | 366 | 371 | 737 | 34.4 | 192 | 0.00 | 0.51 | 0.04 | 0.32 | 0.56 | 0.09 | 1.54 | 2.85 |
| Christchurch | 128 | 127 | 255 | 22.3 | 121 | 0.00 | 0.52 | 0.00 | 0.35 | 0.70 | 0.00 | 0.61 | 2.98 |
| St. Saviour's | 177 | 187 | 364 | 29.8 | 137 | 0.00 | 0.57 | 016 | 0.24 | 0.49 | 0.00 | 0.65 | 2.37 |
| Borough | 3,088 | 3,162 | 6,250 | 30.0 | 147 | 0.00 | 0.73 | 0.13 | 0.21 | 0.38 | 0.05 | 0.88 | 2. 12 |