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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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| Boroughs. | Estimated Population, 1924. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality Rate. | Deaths from | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enteric Fever. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping-cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhæa and Enteritis (under 2 years). | |||||
| LONDON | 4,576,505 | 18.0 | 11.7 | 67 | 48 | 357 | 100 | 855 | 481 | 875 |
| Paddington | 140,400 | 16.0 | 11.8 | 73 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 22 |
| Kensington | 178,550 | 15.9 | 12.9 | 80 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 31 |
| Hammersmith | 134,200 | 17.5 | 11.9 | 65 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 33 | 12 | 24 |
| Fulham | 103,100 | 17.2 | 10.6 | 75 | ... | 3 | 3 | 36 | 10 | 39 |
| Chelsea | 64,580 | 14.5 | 13.3 | 66 | 1 | 2 | ... | 7 | 7 | 11 |
| City of Westminster | 139,900 | 10.7 | 12.1 | 69 | 4 | 1 | ... | 15 | 17 | 12 |
| St. Marylebone | 105,300 | 14.2 | 11.7 | 60 | 2 | ... | 2 | 22 | 7 | 25 |
| Hampstead | 87,000 | 12.2 | 10.1 | 55 | ... | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| St. Pancras | 214,300 | 18.1 | 12.6 | 71 | 3 | 3 | ... | 70 | 32 | 48 |
| Islington | 337,400 | 19.4 | 12.2 | 03 | 4 | 22 | 6 | 62 | 19 | 68 |
| Stoke Newington | 52,920 | 15.5 | 11.6 | 63 | ... | 1 | ... | 6 | 4 | 7 |
| Hackney | 226,900 | 18.0 | 11.4 | 64 | 2 | 20 | 5 | 33 | 29 | 48 |
| Holborn | 43,250 | 12.2 | 12.3 | 65 | 1 | ... | 1 | 8 | 2 | 7 |
| Finsbury | 77,180 | 22.6 | 13.6 | 59 | 3 | 11 | ... | 14 | 6 | 24 |
| City of London | 13,330 | 7.5 | 11.1 | 60 | ... | 1 | ... | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Shoreditch | 100,500 | 24.7 | 13.3 | 88 | 1 | 35 | 5 | 30 | 16 | 40 |
| Bethnal Green | 119,200 | 22.1 | 1.20 | 80 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 64 | 17 | 56 |
| Stepney | 253,740 | 21.0 | 12.1 | 75 | ... | 31 | 6 | 68 | 24 | 113 |
| Poplar | 107,300 | 22.9 | 11.0 | 75 | ... | 28 | 1 | 58 | 6 | 52 |
| Southwark | 187,714 | 21.2 | 13.1 | 77 | ... | 28 | 8 | 51 | 31 | 44 |
| Bermondsey | 122,100 | 22.7 | 12.6 | 75 | ... | 21 | 3 | 27 | 28 | 17 |
| Lambeth | 309,300 | 17.9 | 12.2 | 62 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 47 | 54 | 46 |
| Battersea | 171,000 | 18.6 | 10.4 | 58 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 10 | 16 |
| Wandsworth | 338,200 | 14.4 | 10.4 | 53 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 38 | 26 | 25 |
| Camberwell | 273,700 | 17.8 | 11.0 | 64 | ... | 22 | 13 | 41 | 37 | 31 |
| Deptford | 115,200 | 18.9 | 11.9 | 62 | ... | 32 | 3 | 17 | 22 | 13 |
| Greenwich | 102,470 | 18.8 | 11.2 | 69 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 17 | 14 | 20 |
| Lewisham | 184,900 | 15.7 | 10.2 | 56 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 20 |
| Woolwich | 139,980 | 17.9 | 10.7 | 54 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 7 |