[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of] page 22

City of Westminster 1931

[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, Poplar, who collected the data.

Table: Vital Statistics, 1931.

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Vital Statistics, 1931.

—	Population.	Birthrate.	Death-rate.	Infantile Mortality per 1,000 Births.
West Districts—
l'addington	140,300	14.79	13.05	87
Kensington	174,800	14.2	14.0	76
Hammersmith	135,100	15.3 1	12.2	68
Fulham	151,200	15.08	12.3	67
Chelsea	57,220	12.8	14.1	42
City of Westminster	115,600	10.17	13.9	75.1
North Districts—
St. Marylebone	97,620	11.4	12.4	65
Hampstead	87,740	11.2	11.7	60
St. Paneras	196,600	15.1	13.3	68
Islington	324,600	16.3	12.6	64
Stoke Newington	51,380	15.2	12.7	53.9
Hackney	217,000	15.5	11.4	60
Central Districts—
Holborn	34,470	10.21	14.27	74
Fingbury	70,120	18.0	14.02	62
City of London	10,808	5.6	12.5	81
East Districts—
Shoreditch	98,260	17.1	12.5	74.2
Bethnal Green	109,200	16.8	12.5	87.7
Stepney	225,800	17.5	13.1	78
Poplar	156,300	17.5	12.4	77
South Districts—
Southwark	172,900	16.9	14.0	61
Bermondsey	112,400	17.4	12.5	57
Lambeth	295,900	15.28	12.66	60.35
Battersea	159,800	15.5	12.1	57.3
Wandsworth	353,200	12.27	11.30	59
Camberwell	252,100	14.7	11.9	56
Deptford	107,200	16.3	12.0	53
Greenwich	100,640	14.96	11.41	64
Lewisham	220,800	14.1	10.2	49
Woolwich	142,600	15.1	11.6	59

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Common Lodging House Deaths.
Reference has been made in former reports to the shifting population
which inhabits the six common lodging houses which are licensed in
the City. Some of the residents are permanent, but a greater proportion
are birds of passage. Deaths among the latter class of people tend to
increase the death.rates of the wards in which those lodging houses are
situated; 100 deaths of persons giving addresses in common lodging
houses occurred in 1931. They were mostly in institutions:—

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Table: Vital Statistics, 1931.

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