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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 1927
[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, 1926. | Birth Rate. | Death Bate. | Infantile Mortality Bate. | Deaths from | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enteric Fever. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping-cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhsea and Enteritis (under 2 years). | |||||
| LONDON | 4,605,400 | 161 | 11.9 | 59 | 27 | 179 | 63 | 546 | 387 | 552 |
| West. | ||||||||||
| Paddington | 146,700 | 15.2 | 12.8 | 78 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 38 | 11 | 16 |
| Kensington | 179,800 | 14.8 | 13.1 | 65 | ... | 1 | ... | 14 | 10 | 28 |
| Hammersmith | 134,400 | 15.4 | 12.5 | 58 | ... | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 24 |
| Fulham | 164,300 | 14.9 | 11.0 | 67 | 2 | ... | 1 | 8 | 12 | 22 |
| Chelsea | 64,820 | 13.2 | 13.5 | 74 | 1 | 3 | ... | 6 | 4 | 14 |
| City of Westminster | 138,400 | 9.9 | 11.7 | 67 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 12 |
| North. | ||||||||||
| St. Marylebone | 105,800 | 13.0 | 11.5 | 59 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| Hampstead | 87,530 | 11.7 | 11.6 | 49 | ... | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| St. Pancras | 216,400 | 15.2 | 11.9 | 61 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 35 | 6 | 27 |
| Islington | 339,200 | 17.3 | 12.0 | 55 | ... | 30 | 10 | 46 | 23 | 42 |
| Stoke Newington | 53,080 | 13.8 | 11.8 | 64 | ... | 1 | ... | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Hackney | 228,500 | 15.5 | 11.3 | 64 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 28 | 25 | 35 |
| Central. | ||||||||||
| Holborn | 43,200 | 11.7 | 12.0 | 38 | ... | ... | ... | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Finsbury | 77,550 | 18.6 | 12.8 | 51 | ... | 3 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 11 |
| City of London | 13,230 | 8.6 | 11.5 | 96 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | ... |
| East. | ||||||||||
| Shoreditch | 107,400 | 20.4 | 12.2 | 73 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 25 | 12 | 22 |
| Bethnal Green | 119,600 | 19.7 | 11.1 | 57 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 16 | 23 |
| Stepney | 255,400 | 18.0 | 11.4 | 66 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 45 | 21 | 60 |
| Poplar | 169,000 | 19.6 | 11.5 | 66 | ... | 9 | 2 | 31 | 17 | 37 |
| South. | ||||||||||
| Southwark (1927) Pop. | 184,250 | 19.0 | 13.4 | 61 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 30 | 21 | 26 |
| Bermondsey | 123,100 | 19.6 | 12.6 | 61 | ... | 11 | ... | 12 | 13 | 13 |
| Lambeth | 311,000 | 16.0 | 12.2 | 54 | 3 | 24 | 2 | 30 | 31 | 33 |
| Battersea | 171,900 | 16.3 | 11.8 | 53 | ... | 1 | 3 | 16 | 25 | 7 |
| Wandsworth | 342,100 | 13.6 | 11.2 | 51 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 23 | 19 |
| Camberwell | 275,400 | 15.4 | 11.1 | 52 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 30 | 23 | 24 |
| Deptford | 115,700 | 16.5 | 11..1 | 58 | 1 | ... | 2 | 12 | 14 | 8 |
| Greenwich | 103,300 | 16.2 | 10.7 | 54 | 1 | ... | 2 | 16 | 11 | 9 |
| Lewisham | 187,800 | 15.2 | 10.8 | 45 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 8 |
| Woolwich | 141,900 | 15.3 | 10.3 | 43 | ... | 1 | ... | 10 | 10 | 5 |