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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 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: 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 1915.

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 1915.

WARD.Births.Infantile Mortality.Zymotic Rates in the Wards.
Males.Fe-males.Total.Birth-rate.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Enteric Fever.Diarrhoea.Phthisis.
St. Mary25326151424.5124_0.38—0.190.14—0.862.09
St. Paul24624449026.5120—0.92—0.160.160.100.651.30
St. Peter25124049128.4102—0.340.170.460.280.050.921.38
St. John28631560130.1124—0.900.100.100.30—1.101.95
Trinity21223544729.6112—0.530.130.330.39—0.362.31
All Saints34328362634.4145—1.210.110.380.27—1.212.52
St. Michael29432061428.8169—0.70—0.040.32—1.313.23
St. Jude16415031424.5165—0.550.070.150.23—0.621.95
St. George29931861736.3131—1.180.060.230.23—1.181.94
Christchurch12310723025.61480.56—0.110.22—1.112.34
St. Saviour14515830332.7109—0.540.10—0.21—0.652.27
Borough2,6162,6315,24729.2132—0.730.060.200.250.010.972.16