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 Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 2.
Number of Births belonging to each ward, with the Birth-rates, also the Infantile Mortality and Zymotic Rate in the several wards for 1913.
WARD. | Births. | Infantile Mortality. | Zymotic Rates in the Wards. | ||||||||||
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Males. | Females. | Total. | Birth, rate. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Enteric Fever. | Diar-rhæa. | Phthisis. | ||
St. Mary | 372 | 285 | 657 | 29.9 | 97 | — | 0.27 | 0.14 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.18 | 0.91 | 1.86 |
St. Paul | 263 | 252 | 515 | 26.6 | 89 | — | 0.26 | — | — | 0.10 | — | 0.57 | 1.50 |
St. Peter | 299 | 253 | 552 | 30.5 | 81 | — | 0.50 | — | 0.05 | 0.33 | 0.05 | 0.50 | 1.60 |
St. John | 331 | 352 | 683 | 32.5 | 117 | — | 0.52 | 0.14 | 0.10 | 0.14 | — | 0.86 | 1.62 |
Trinity | 278 | 263 | 541 | 34.2 | 129 | — | 0.38 | 0.06 | 0.13 | 0.19 | — | 1.77 | 2.46 |
All Saints | 348 | 373 | 721 | 37.8 | 104 | — | 0.63 | — | 0.21 | 0.37 | 0-05 | 1.26 | 1.10 |
St. Michael | 380 | 341 | 721 | 32.3 | 137 | — | 1.03 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.13 | — | 1.30 | 2.55 |
St. Jude | 190 | 177 | 367 | 27.4 | 103 | — | 0.45 | — | 0.07 | 0.22 | — | 0.75 | 2.02 |
St. George | 335 | 343 | 678 | 36.9 | 152 | — | 0.82 | — | 0.22 | 0.27 | — | 1.91 | 1.85 |
Christchurch | 126 | 102 | 228 | 24.3 | 136 | — | 0.64 | 0.11 | — | 0.21 | — | 1.17 | 3.09 |
St. Saviour | 154 | 114 | 268 | 27.6 | 116 | — | 0.62 | 0.21 | 0.21 | 0.21 | — | 1.03 | 1.44 |
Borough | 3,076 | 2,855 | 5,931 | 31.5 | 115 | — | 0.56 | 0.06 | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.03 | 1.09 | 1.88 |