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 Borough for 1926.
| WARD. | Births. | Infantile Mortality. | Zymotic Rates in the Borough. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Total. | Birth.rate. | Cerebro Spinal Fever. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Enteric Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Influenza. | Polio. Myelitis. | Encephalitis Lethargica | ||
| St. Mary | 211 | 206 | 417 | 18.0 | 82 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| St. Paul | 198 | 201 | 399 | 20.4 | 75 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| St. Peter | 162 | 146 | 308 | 17.5 | 45 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| St. John | 242 | 204 | 446 | 22.9 | 45 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Trinity | 178 | 180 | 358 | 21.6 | 42 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| All Saints | 222 | 198 | 420 | 19.2 | 79 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| St. Michael | 221 | 204 | 425 | 20.5 | 92 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| St. Jude | 159 | 152 | 311 | 22.3 | 80 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| St. George | 213 | 192 | 405 | 22.4 | 84 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| Christchurch. | 87 | 83 | 170 | 20.0 | 76 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . |
| St. Saviour | 81 | 70 | 151 | 16.4 | 53 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |
| Borough | 1,974 | 1,836 | 3,810 | 20.2 | 70 | 0.02 | 0.27 | 0.02 | 0.17 | 0.03 | — | 0.32 | 1.06 | 0.13 | — | 0.02 |