London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of Westminster 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
This page requires JavaScript
22
The following table is inserted by courtesy of the Medical Officer of
Health for Poplar, by whom the figures were compiled.
Table XVIII.—Birth and Death Rates in Metropolitan Boroughs for 1938.
| 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. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crude. | Adjusted. | ||||
| Paddington | 137,400 | 13.74 | 11.33 | 11.21 | 66 |
| Kensington | 174,100 | 12.8 | 11.7 | 10.9 | 78 |
| Hammersmith | 125,100 | 15.5 | 11.3 | 11.6 | 61 |
| Fulham | 137,700 | 14.2 | 11.6 | 11.7 | 51 |
| Chelsea | 56,050 | 10.2 | 13.5 | 11.5 | 80 |
| City of Westminster | 124,400 | 8.3 | 10.4 | 10.7 | 54.9 |
| St. Marylebone | 90,680 | 8.84 | 11.12 | 11.0 | 60 |
| Hampstead | 90,480 | 11.7 | 11.4 | 10.7 | 57 |
| St. Pancras | 179,400 | 13.5 | 11.5 | 11.7 | 64 |
| Islington | 292,300 | 15.32 | 11.90 | 12.02 | 65 |
| Stoke Newington | 50,480 | 13.8 | 11.0 | 10.5 | 43.2 |
| Hackney | 205,200 | 13.4 | 10.7 | 11.2 | 56.46 |
| Holborn | 34,350 | 7.28 | 10.51 | 11.25 | 84 |
| Finsbury | 56,960 | 13.0 | 12.9 | 14.1 | 73 |
| City of London | 8,780 | 6.6 | 10.7 | 11.8 | 51.8 |
| Shoreditch | 80,360 | 14.7 | 11.4 | 12.5 | 64 |
| Bethnal Green | 92,910 | 14.2 | 11.3 | 12.8 | 59.3 |
| Stepney | 200,500 | 13.06 | 11.05 | 12.92 | 60.7 |
| Poplar | 134,400 | 14.9 | 11.4 | 12.7 | 60 |
| Southwark | 145,300 | 14.0 | 12.5 | 13.4 | 57 |
| Bermondsey | 97,420 | 14.8 | 11.0 | 12.54 | 45 |
| Lambeth | 272,800 | 14.09 | 11.9 | 11.7 | 51 |
| Battersea | 141,700 | 14.92 | 11.82 | 11.70 | 53.45 |
| Wandsworth | 340,100 | 11.92 | 11.17 | 10.38 | 46 |
| Camberwell | 222,400 | 13.97 | 12.27 | 12.27 | 61 |
| Deptford | 95,460 | 14.4 | 11.8 | ? | 54 |
| Greenwich | 95,770 | 13.64 | 10.89 | 11.1 | 42 |
| Lewisham | 229,000 | 13.9 | 10.49 | 10.5 | 47 |
| Woolwich | 150,900 | 13.6 | 10.4 | 11.0 | 50 |
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
among the latter class of people tend to increase the death-rates of the
wards in which those lodging houses are situated; 57 deaths of persons
giving addresses in common lodging houses occurred in 1938. They
were mostly in institutions.