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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 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1917.
Estimated population 167 936
Total Births 4,135
Total Deaths 3,087
Birth Rate for London 17.5
Do. Southwark ... 24-6
Death Rate for London 15.0
Do. Southwark 18.3
Cases of Infectious Disease notified.
| Measles. | Anthrax. | Polio Myelitis. | Ophthalm. neonatorm. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Diphtheria. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Membranous Croup. | Continued Fever. | Cerebrospinal Fever. | Phthisis. | Other Tuberculosis. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1530 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 276 | 10 | 570 | 170 | - | 17 | 685 | 257 | 3570 |
| Total excluding Phthisis, | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Diarrhea. | Phthisis. | Deaths under 1 year to 1,000 Births. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 276 | — | 75 | 7 | 46 | 35 | — | 5 | 108 | 392 | — |
| The Zymotic Rate per 1000 and Infant Rate. | ||||||||||
| 1.63 | 0.44 | 0.04 | 0.27 | 0.21 | - | 0.03 | 0.64 | 2.33 | 111 | |
POPULATION
There has been apparently little change in the inhabitants during
the year under consideration All new building schemes have been at a
standstill and repairs to houses have been very difficult to carry out
owing to the want of men and materials. All matters, however, relating
to health have been carried out after some delay. The people upon the
whole,.owing to much higher wages—a rise on an average of 100 per
cent—have never before been so well clothed and fed. The working