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 Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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DEATH-RATES (CORRECTED) IN METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS DURING 1908
PER 1000 PERSONS LIVING.
All Causes. | Principal All Diseases. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Dipthiria. | Whooping Cough. | Thypus. | Enteric Fever. | Pyrixiat (Origin uncertain). | Dirrhœa. | Phthisis. | Death under 1 year to 1000 Births. | |
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County of London | 13.8 | 1.35 | 0.31 | 0.11 | 0.15 | 0.20 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.53 | 1.32 | 113 | ||
West. Paddington | 12.4 | 0.87 | 0.23 | 0.10 | 0 10 | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.34 | 1.01 | 103 | |||
Kensington . | 129 | C.92 | 0.17 | 0.05 | 0.15 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0 48 | 0.98 | 119 | |||
Hammersmith | 14.0 | 1.09 | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.15 | 0.04 | 0.59 | 1 .26 | 120 | |||
Fulham | 12.4 | 1.59 | 0.41 | 0.10 | 0.18 | 0.19 | 0.06 | 0.65 | 1.14 | 116 | |||
Chelsea | 14.5 | 1.18 | 0.16 | 0.10 | 0.16 | 0.22 | 0.07 | 0.47 | 1.27 | 107 | |||
City of Westminster | 12.6 | 0.58 | 0.13 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.24 | 1.23 | 102 | |||
North. | |||||||||||||
St. Marylebone | 14.2 | 0.85 | 0.19 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.30 | 1.16 | 101 | |||
Hampstead | 8.5 | 0.40 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.13 | 0 78 | 69 | |||
St. Pancras | 14.7 | 1.06 | 0.19 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 0.29 | 0.04 | 0.37 | 1.51 | 107 | |||
Islington | 13.2 | 1.01 | 0.23 | 0.09 | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.05 | 0.32 | 1.24 | 102 | |||
Stoke Newington | 12.3 | 0.82 | 0.18 | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.11 | 0.07 | 0.35 | 1.07 | 92 | |||
Hackney | 13.2 | 1.52 | 0.31 | 0.13 | 0.19 | 0.18 | 0.03 | 0.68 | 1.22 | 115 | |||
Central. | |||||||||||||
Holborn | 16.4 | 1.07 | 0.20 | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.14 | 0.09 | 0.42 | 2.11 | 113 | |||
Finsbury | 18.6 | 2.09 | 0.45 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0 26 | 0.12 | 0.97 | 2.15 | 133 | |||
City of London | 17.7 | 0.40 | 0.15 | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 1.79 | 92 | |||||
East. | |||||||||||||
Shoreditch | 17.4 | 2.09 | 0.44 | 0.25 | 0.11 | 0.20 | 0.09 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 139 | |||
Bethnal Green | 17.1 | 2.48 | 0.78 | 0.30 | 0.21 | 0.32 | 0.10 | 0.77 | 1.61 | 132 | |||
Stepney | 16.4 | 2.53 | 0.84 | 0.17 | 0.24 | 0.41 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.83 | 1.56 | 130 | ||
Poplar | 15.9 | 2.26 | 0.47 | 0.21 | 0.19 | 0.42 | 0.08 | 0.89 | 1.34 | 123 | |||
South. | |||||||||||||
Southwark | 16.3 | 1.76 | 0.36 | 0.11 | 0.15 | 0.23 | 0.03 | 0.88 | 1.88 | 131 | |||
Bermondsey | 18.8 | 2.30 | 0.82 | 0.19 | 0.18 | 0.17 | 0.09 | 0.01 | 0.84 | 1.89 | 144 | ||
Lambeth | 18.3 | 1.18 | 0.31 | 0.13 | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.02 | 0.43 | 1.45 | 104 | |||
Battersea | 12.2 | 1.19 | 0.26 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.21 | 0.03 | 0.44 | 1.19 | 106 | |||
Wandsworth | 11.6 | 0.93 | 0.15 | 0.07 | 0.13 | 021 | 0.02 | 0.35 | 0.96 | 97 | |||
Camberwell | 12.7 | 1.06 | 0.19 | 0.08 | 0.14 | 0.19 | 0.02 | 0.44 | 1.12 | 104 | |||
Deptford | 13.8 | 1.32 | 0.28 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.20 | 0.09 | 0.63 | 1.16 | 122 | |||
Greenwich | 12.6 | 1.25 | 0.14 | 0.05 | 0.16 | 0.28 | 0.08 | 0.84 | 1.10 | 1.0 | |||
Lewisham | 11.0 | 1.25 | 0.29 | 0.07 | 0.27 | 0.19 | 0.03 | 0.40 | 0.85 | 86 | |||
Woolwich | 11.4 | 0.92 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 0.16 | 0.24 | 0.02 | 0.36 | 1.20 | 94 | |||
N.B.—0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.005; where no death occurred, ... is inserted.
†Called Simple Continued Fever previous to 1901.
The above table is taken from the Registrar General's Annual Summary, and the rates for Lambeth Borough differ slightly
from those given in this Report.