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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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NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Estimated population (1925) 188,600
Population (Census, 1921) 184,404
Area (acres) 1,131
Number of inhabited houses (1921) 19,050
Number of families or separate occupiers (1921) 46,727
Rateable value£1,664,071
Sum represented by penny rate £5,218
SOCIAL CONDITIONS
The district is chiefly a residential working class one, with a number
of factories, business premises, warehouses and wharves.
| Births—Legitimate | 3,653 |
| Illegitimate | 157 |
| Total | 3,810 |
| Birth Rate, 20.2. | |
| Deaths | 2,403 |
| Death Rate, 12.7. | |
| Number of women dying in, or in consequence of childbirth — | |
| From sepsis | 6 |
| Other causes | 7 |
| Deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 births, 70. | |
| Legitimate | 246 |
| Illegitimate | 19 |
| Total | 265 |
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | 51 |
| Do. Whooping Cough (all ages) | 5 |
| Do. Diarrhæa under 2 years of age | 50 |