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City of Westminster 1901

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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Table: Table V.— The Metropolitan Boroughs.

Table V.— The Metropolitan Boroughs.

Arranged in order of the Proportion per cent. of Domestic Indoor Servants to Families or Separate Occupiers, beginning with the Boroughs having the Lowest Proportion.Arranged in order of the Number out of every 100 Total Families occupying Tenements of levs than Five Rooms.Arranged in order of Overcrowding, the Most Crowded being given First.Arranged in order of Death-rate per 1,000 of. Population during 1901 from—
All Tenements Under Five Rooms.One Room.Two Rooms.Three Rooms.Four Rooms.All Causes.Phthisis.
ShoreditchFinsbury ShoreditchStepneyStepneyStepneyStepneyStepneyShoreditch (21.9)Holborn (2.81)
Bethnal GreenFinsburyBethnal GreenFinsburyFinsburyBethnal GreenSouthwark (21.5)Southwark (2.50)
BermondseyBethnal GreenBethnal Green ShoreditchFinsburyBethnal GreenShoreditchFinsburyFinsbury (21.4)City of London (2.29)
SouthwarkSouth warkShoreditch HolbornShoreditchBethnal GreenShoreditchStepney (20.9) Bermondsey (20.9)Shoreditch (2.22)
PoplarStepneyHolbornSt. PancrasBermondseyBermondsey Poplar St. MaryleboneFinsbury (2.9)
DeptfordSt. PancrasSt. Marylebone St. PancrasPoplarHolbornKensingtonBethnal Green (20.3Bethnal Green (2.15)
StepneyHolbornDeptfordKensingtonHolborn St. MaryleboneHolborn (20.1)Stepney (2.09)
BatterseaBermondseyKensingtonSt. Pancras SouthwarkSt. MaryleboneSt. Pancras SouthwarkCity of London (20.1)St. Marylebone (1.92)
WoolwichPoplar St. MaryleboneSouthwarkSouthwarkSouthwarkPoplar (20.0)Westminster (1.80)
CamberwellBermondseyIslingtonBermondseyPoplar St. PancrasHammersmith IslingtonSt. Pancras (18.3)St. Pancras (1.87)
DeptfordIslingtonIslingtonKensington St. MaryleboneIslingtonLambeth (17.3)Poplar (1.79) Bermondsey (1.79)
IslingtonChelseaPopiarPaddingtonChelseaKensingtonHammersmith (17.0)
St. PancrasFulhamChelsea Paddington WestminsterLambeth BatterseaCity of LondonIslington Battersea WestminsterChelseaGreenwichSt. Marylebone (16.6) Chelsea (10.6)Woolwich (1.70)
HackneyPaddingtonPoplarChelsea (1.68)
LambethWestminsterHackneyLambethHackney HolbornCamberwell (16.5) Deptford (16.5)Lambeth (1.65)
FulhamLambethCity of London LambethCamberwell Fulham HammersmithBattersea Chelsea HammersmithCamberwell GreenwichHackney (1 .53)
HammersmithBattersea City of LondonBattersea Camberwell Deptford FulhamBattersea (16.4)Islington (1.51)
HolbornHammersmithHammersmith Lambeth JWestminster (16.0) Islington (16.0)Camberwell (1.48)
GreenwichHackney HammersmithBattersea Camberwell HackneyPaddington WestminsterCambenvell WestminsterBattersea (1.43)
Stoke NewingtonCity of London Fulham HackneyFulham (15.8) Hackney (15.8)Hammersmith (1.42)
WandsworthDeptfordCity of London WoolwichHampsteadLambeth Paddington Westminster WoolwichFulham (1.37)
LewishamWoolwichDeptford HampsteadFulham HackneyGreenwich (15.3)Kensington (1.36)
City of LondonCamberwellBermondseyChelseaPaddington HampsteadKensington (15.2)Stoke Newington (1.35)
PaddingtonKensingtonGreenwich FulhamDeptfordWoolwich (14.6)Deptford (1.19)
St. MaryleboneGreenwichGreenwichStoke NewingtonDeptfordHampstead WandsworthPaddington (14.3)Greenwich (1.16)
ChelseaStoke NewingtonStoke Newington WoolwichHampstead Stoke NewingtonGreenwichWoolwich WandsworthWandsworth (13.4)Wandsworth (1.14)
WestminsterHampsteadWoolwichLewisham City of LondonStoke Newington (13.2)Paddington (1.10)
KensingtonWandsworthWandsworthWandsworthLewisham WandsworthLewisham Stoke NewingtonLewisham (13 0)Hampstead (0.91)
HampsteadLewishamLewishamLewishamStoke NewingtonHampstead (10.7)Lewisham (0.90)