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City of Westminster 1937

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

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Table: The following table is inserted by courtesy of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, by whom the figures were compiled.Table XXII.—Birth and Death Rates in Metropolitan Boroughsfor 1937.

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The following table is inserted by courtesy of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, by whom the figures were compiled.

Table XXII.—Birth and Death Rates in Metropolitan Boroughsfor 1937.

Cities and Boroughs.	Est. Resident Population (mid-1936).	Live Births rate per 1,000 Population.	Death rate per 1,000 Population.		Infantile Mortality rate per 1,000 Live Births.
Cities and Boroughs.	Est. Resident Population (mid-1936).	Live Births rate per 1,000 Population.	Crude.	Adjusted.	Infantile Mortality rate per 1,000 Live Births.
West Districts—
Paddington	138,300	13.65	13.05	12.91	66
Kensington	175,600	12.1	13.3	12.4	83
Hammersmith	126,500	15.1	12.6	13.0	68
Fulham	138,900	13.9	13.08	13.2	56
Chelsea	56,510	10.8	14.1	12.0	59
City of Westminster	124,300	8.2	11.5	11.8	58.7
North Districts—
St. Marylebone	92,110	9.36	13.10	12.98	73
Hampstead	90,690	11.2	11.6	10.9	54
St. Pancras	181,900	13.0	12.7	13.0	62
Islington	295,400	15.5	12.	13.2	66
Stoke Newington	60,250	14.2	12.5	12.0	37.5
Hackney	206,700	13.8	11.1	11.7	43.38
Central Districts—
Holborn	34,600	8.09	11.85	12.68	79
Finsbury	58,700	13.8	14.6	15.9	71
City of London	8,980	6.1	11.2	12.4	36.3
East Districts—
Shoreditch	82,240	14.86	12.47	13.72	54
Bethnal Green	94,560	13.3	12.5	14.1	54
Stepney	203,100	13.5	12.2	14.2	60.5
Poplar	136,800	15.5	12.6	14.0	31
South Districts—
Southwark	147,400	14.7	13.6	14.1	64
Bermondsey	98,790	14.4	12.3	14.0	59
Lambeth	273,800	14.1	13.2	13.0	68
Battersea	143,500	14.94	12.89	12.76	70.43
Wandsworth.	341,700	11.53	12..36	11.43	62
Camberwell	224,800	14.08	12.83	12.83	58
Deptford	96,580	15.1	11.8	12.3	45
Greenwich	95,990	13.88	12.03	12.27	50
Lewisham	226,000	13.9	10.8	10.9	46
Woolwich	149,400	14.2	11.1	11.7	40

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Common Lodging House Deaths.
Reference has been made in former reports to the shifting population
which inhabits the five 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 Public Assistance institutions for perhaps thirty
or forty years although their original residence, and perhaps a temporary
one at that, was in a common lodging house in the City. Deaths

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Table: The following table is inserted by courtesy of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, by whom the figures were compiled.Table XXII.—Birth and Death Rates in Metropolitan Boroughsfor 1937.

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