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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 1925

[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 1925.

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 1925.

WARD.Births.Infantile Mortality.Zymotic Rates in the Wards.
Males.Females.Total.Birth-rate.Cerebro [Spinal Fever.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Enteric Fever.Diarrhœa.Phthisis.Influenza.Polio-Myelitis.Encephalitis Lethargica
St. Mary21822244019080-0.170.170.040.30-0.130.900.13-0.04
St. Paul18118236318.658-0.20-0.060.10-0.160.970.36-0.06
St. Peter16516432918.782------0.230.910.23-0.06
St. John22522645123.1102-0.260.050.050.51-0.151.180.20--
Trinity16818635421.473--0.060.120.42-0.361.090.06--
All Saints21722444120.268-0.14-0.230.18-0.230.900.05-0-05
St. Michael23623246822.594-0.05-0.240.38-0.631.300.14--
St. Jude16417033423.854-0.28-0.070.14-0.210.78---
St. George24921446325.5730.060.270.060.330.33-0.270.880.1-0.06
Christchurch.1029519723.276---0.350.35-1.061.53---
St. Saviour1017617719.273-0.220.110.650.220.430.76---
Borough2,0261,9914,01721.277-0.150.040.160.27-0.311.020.13-0.03