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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
City of Westminster 1933
[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, by whom the figures were compiled.
Statistics for 1933.
| City or Borough. | Population. (R.-G's. estimate) | Birthrate. | Death-rate. | Infant Mortality Rate. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Districts— | ||||
| Paddington | 141,900 | 13.41 | 13.36 | 85 |
| Kensington | 181,100 | 120 | 12.9 | 72 |
| Hammersmith | 131,400 | 13.9 | 12.9 | 65 |
| Fulham | 148,200 | 1307 | 13.00 | 65 |
| Chelsea | 58,850 | 10.6 | 13.6 | 78 |
| City of Westminster | 126,300 | 8.7 | 12.4 | 68 |
| North Districts— | ||||
| St. Marylebone | 94,080 | 9.71 | 12.2 | 56 |
| Hampstead | 90,380 | 9.6 | 11.0 | 38 |
| St. Pancras | 190,900 | 13.6 | 13.7 | 58 |
| Islington | 319,100 | 14.35 | 12.40 | 63 |
| Stoke Newington | 51,120 | 12.6 | 12.3 | 46 |
| Hackney | 214,300 | 140 | 11.5 | 50.6 |
| Central Districts— | ||||
| Holborn | 36,050 | 9.49 | 13.48 | 70 |
| Finsbury | 06,640 | 15.1 | 12.8 | 50 |
| City of London | 9,830 | 7.7 | 10.9 | 65 |
| East Districts— | ||||
| Shoreditch | 93,550 | 16.0 | 13.0 | 74 |
| Bethnal Green | 104,200 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 66 |
| Stepney | 219,100 | 15.1 | 12.9 | 65.3 |
| Poplar | 149,300 | 15.4 | 12.4 | 54 |
| South Districts— | ||||
| Southwark | 164,700 | 14.2 | 13.9 | 63 |
| Bermondsey | 107,300 | 14.0 | 12.5 | 61 |
| Lambeth | 289,000 | 13.6 | 13.1 | 63 |
| Battersea | 154,000 | 14.7 | 12.49 | 49.49 |
| Wandsworth | 350,200 | 10.93 | 11.49 | 50 |
| Camberwell | 243,700 | 13.32 | 12.33 | 49 |
| Deptford | 102,800 | 14.8 | 12.1 | 54 |
| Greenwich | 97,830 | 13.7 | 11.9 | 66 |
| Lewisham | 221,100 | 12.2 | 10.2 | 39 |
| Woolwich | 146,200 | 12.6 | 11.18 | 62 |
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 in so far that they have
been resident in the Poor Law institutions for perhaps thirty or forty
years although their original residence and perhaps even temporary at
that was in a common lodging house in the City. Deaths among the latter
class of people tend to increase the death-rates of the wards in which those
lodging houses, are situated; 90 deaths of persons giving addresses in
common lodging houses occurred in 1933. They were mostly in
institutions:—