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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 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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Birth and Death Rates and Infantile Mortality Rate, &c.
| Boroughs. | Estimated Population, 1925. | Birth Rate. | Death Bate. | Infantile Mortality Rate. | Deaths from | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enteric Fever. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping-cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhaea and Enteritis (under 2 years). | |||||
| LONDON | 4,602,000 | 17.1 | 11.4 | 64 | 28 | 914 | 82 | 232 | 538 | 934 |
| Paddington | 147,100 | 15.4 | 12.3 | 84 | ... | 33 | 1 | 9 | 20 | 54 |
| Kensington | 179,400 | 151 | 12.4 | 61 | 2 | 26 | 4 | 8 | 22 | 36 |
| Hammersmith | 134,500 | 16.3 | 11.3 | 67 | ... | 22 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 22 |
| Fulham | 163,700 | 16.3 | 10.7 | 65 | ... | 46 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 35 |
| Chelsea | 64,820 | 13.3 | 12.4 | 05 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 15 |
| City of Westminster | 139,600 | 11.3 | 11.2 | 62 | 2 | 24 | ... | 2 | 8 | 14 |
| St. Marylebone | 106,100 | 12.8 | 12.6 | 82 | ... | 32 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 19 |
| Hampstead | 88,040 | 12.2 | 101 | 58 | 1 | 8 | 1 | ... | 9 | 5 |
| St. Pancras | 215,900 | 16.8 | 12.2 | 76 | 1 | 64 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 50 |
| Islington | 339,200 | 18.5 | 120 | 67 | 1 | 70 | 12 | 29 | 29 | 74 |
| Stoke Newington | 53,190 | 15.6 | 110 | 49 | ... | 6 | ... | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Hackney | 228,300 | 173 | 10.6 | 60 | ... | 11 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 72 |
| Holborn | 43,315 | 12.4 | 11.7 | 90 | ... | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| Finsbury | 77,560 | 20.6 | 12.8 | 67 | ... | 21 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 16 |
| City of London | 13,340 | 7.9 | 10.9 | 66 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Shoreditch | 107,300 | 23.3 | 11.9 | 66 | 1 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 25 |
| Bethnal Green | 119,800 | 20 9 | 11.6 | 72 | 1 | 43 | ... | 3 | 22 | 38 |
| Stepney | 255,370 | 19.7 | 11.7 | 65 | 4 | 63 | 9 | 8 | 31 | 92 |
| Poplar | 168,500 | 21.7 | 11.3 | 70 | 4 | 38 | 3 | 11 | 22 | 61 |
| Southwark | 189,000 | 202 | 12.7 | 70 | 3 | 51 | 3 | 5 | 32 | 50 |
| Bermondsey | 123,000 | 20.8 | 11.9 | 56 | ... | 24 | 5 | 1 | 41 | 24 |
| Lambeth | 311,100 | 17.2 | 11 5 | 54 | 2 | 66 | 4 | 22 | 43 | 45 |
| Battersea | 172,100 | 17.3 | 11.2 | 61 | 1 | 41 | 2 | 13 | 20 | 28 |
| Wandsworth | 340,900 | 14.3 | 10.4 | 64 | ... | 54 | 3 | 18 | 26 | 31 |
| Camberwell | 275,400 | 16.6 | 11.0 | 64 | ... | 48 | 5 | 7 | 56 | 48 |
| Deptford | 115 900 | 18.2 | 11.1 | 56 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 19 |
| Greenwich | 102,936 | 17.8 | 10.9 | 63 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 17 |
| Lewisham | 185,600 | 15.5 | 10.0 | 40 | 1 | 19 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 12 |
| Woolwich | 140,740 | 16.9 | 10.1 | 42 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 12 |