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 Westminster, City of]
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The following table is inserted by courtesy of the Medical Officer of Health of Poplar, who collected the data. The comparative vital statistics are interesting.
Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population to the middle of year. | Births. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Zymotic Deaths. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Death-rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths of Infants under one year to 1,000 births. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
LONDON | 4,605,600 | 17.1* | 11.6* | 64* | |
Paddington | 146,700 | 15.3 | 0.8 | 12.6 | 86 |
Kensington | 180,000 | 15.1 | 0.6 | 12.8 | 60 |
Hammersmith | 134,400 | 16.3 | 0.6 | 11.4 | 66 |
Fulham | 164,300 | 16.2 | 0.6 | 10.8 | 64 |
Chelsea | 64,820 | 13.3 | 0.7 | 12.5 | 64 |
City of Westminster | 138,400 | 11.3 | 0.44 | 11.6 | 59.7 |
St. Marylebone | 105,800 | 12.7 | 0.5 | 11.9 | 81 |
Hampstead | 87,530 | 12.3 | 0.23 | 10.6 | 60 |
St. Pancras | 216,800 | 16.7 | 0.8 | 12.4 | 76 |
Islington | 339,200 | 19.0 | 0.5 | 12.0 | 66 |
Stoke Newington | 53,080 | 16.0 | 0.8 | 10.7 | 48 |
Hackney | 228,500 | 17.2 | 0.46 | 10.8 | 59 |
Holborn | 43,200 | 12.38 | 0.5 | 12.1 | 90 |
Finsbury | 77,550 | 21.4 | 0.67 | 12.9 | 66 |
City of London | 13,230 | 7.1 | 0.07 | 10.4 | 66 |
Shoreditch | 106,400 | 23.5 | 12.2 | 66 | |
Bethnal Green | 119,600 | 20.9 | 11.6 | 70 | |
Stepney | 256,100 | 19.4 | 0 | 11.5 | 65 |
Poplar | 169,000 | 21.6 | 0 | 11.4 | 70 |
Southwark | 188,600 | 20.2 | 0.9 | 12.7 | 70 |
Bermondsey | 123,100 | 19.6 | 0.76 | 12.1 | 60 |
Lambeth | 311,000 | 17.9 | 0.5 | 11.5 | 38.4 |
Battersea | 171,900 | 17.3 | 0.7 | 11.4 | 61.6 |
Wandsworth | 342,100 | 14.1 | 0.6 | 10.37 | 64 |
Camberwell | 275,400 | 16.6 | 11.0 | 70 | |
Deptford | 115,700 | 18.2 | 0.7 | 11.3 | 56 |
Greenwich | 104,300 | 17.7 | 0.4 | 10.8 | 61 |
Lewisham | 187,800 | 16.3 | 0.2 | 10.0 | 40 |
Woolwich | 141,900 | 17.4 | 0.3 | 10.2 | 43 |
*These provisional figures are taken from a table furnished by the Registrar-General.
Other figures supplied by Medical Officers of Health.