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
Stoke Newington 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Parish of St. Mary]
This page requires JavaScript
TABLE A 5.
A comparison of the Health Records of the several Metropolitan Sanitary Areas.
| ... Sanitary Area. | Crude or Recorded Death-rate. | Factor for correction for ape and sex distribution. | Corrected Death-rate. | Bate of Infantile Mortality. | Infectious Sickness-rate from Notifiable Diseases. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 17.7 | 1.0656 | 18.8 | 158 | 10.2 |
| Paddington | 14.4 | 1.08070 | 15.5 | 149 | 8.0 |
| Kensington | 15.7 | 1.10184 | 17.2 | 166 | 8.5 |
| Hamersmith | 16.7 | 1.06094 | 17.7 | 171 | 6.6 |
| Fulham | 17.0 | 1.04817 | 17.8 | 162 | 11.3 |
| Chelsen | 17.8 | 1.06685 | 18.9 | 161 | 9.9 |
| St. George, Hanover Square | 13.2 | 1.10438 | 14.5 | 133 | 4.9 |
| Westminster | 18.9 | 1.13046 | 21.3 | 166 | 7.4 |
| St. James, Westminster | 17.5 | 1.11597 | 19.5 | 166 | 9.9 |
| Marylebone | 18.3 | 1.07464 | 19.6 | 136 | 6.9 |
| Hampstead | 11.8 | 1.15153 | 13.6 | 127 | 5.3 |
| St. Pancras | 18.7 | 1.07043 | 20 0 | 168 | 8.8 |
| Islington | 15.8 | l.06983 | 16.9 | 136 | 8.6 |
| Stoke Newington | 14.0 | 1.07283 | 15.0 | 122 | 6.7 |
| Hackney | 16.5 | 1.04645 | 17.2 | 147 | 12.3 |
| St. Giles | 18.5 | 1.10886 | 20.5 | 146 | 10.5 |
| St. Martins-in-the-Fields | 16.3 | 1.21665 | 19.8 | 178 | 6.4 |
| Strand | 21.3 | 1.17919 | 25.1 | 161 | 9.1 |
| Holborn | 23.1 | 1.03683 | 23.9 | 184 | 11.5 |
| Clerkenwell | 22.1 | 1.10822 | 24.4 | 184 | 13.3 |
| St. Luke | 25.7 | 1.08070 | 27.7 | 149 | 13.4 |
| City of London | 21.3 | 1.15015 | 24.4 | 130 | 7.0 |
| Shoreditch | 21.6 | 1.03794 | 22.4 | 183 | 11.0 |
| Bethnal Green | 21.4 | 1.04133 | 22.2 | 171 | 13.8 |
| Whitechapel | 20.4 | 1.07948 | 22.0 | 148 | 12.3 |
| St. George in the East | 26.4 | 1.03907 | 27.4 | 197 | 11.8 |
| Limehouse | 25.1 | 1.08869 | 21.3 | 193 | 13.1 |
| Mile End | 18.7 | 1.03068 | 19.2 | 149 | 13.4 |
| Poplar | 19.8 | 1.03569 | 20.5 | 170 | 13.1 |
| St. Saviour, Southwark | 24.6 | 1.04702 | 25.7 | 195 | 11.2 |
| St. George, Southwark | 23.7 | 1.10375 | 26.1 | 189 | 11.7 |
| Newington | 21.2 | 1.04531 | 22.1 | 177 | 11.1 |
| St. Olave, Soutliwark | 22.1 | 1.03963 | 22.9 | 154 | 12.1 |
| Bermondsey | 22.1 | 1.05801 | 23.3 | 190 | 11.0 |
| Rotherhithe | 18.9 | 1.03569 | 19.5 | 174 | 11.7 |
| Lambeth | 17.5 | 104989 | 18.3 | 151 | 9.0 |
| Battersea | 16.2 | 1.07584 | 17.4 | 162 | 15.0 |
| Wandsworth | 13.4 | 1.06804 | 14.3 | 135 | 10.0 |
| Camberwell | 16.6 | 1.05801 | 17.5 | 159 | 11.1 |
| Greenwich | 17.2 | 1.02791 | 17.6 | 157 | 10.2 |
| Lewisham | 12.8 | 1.06864 | 13.6 | 129 | 7.5 |
| Woolwich | 17.7 | 1.12713 | 19.9 | 157 | 10.4 |
| Lee | 13.2 | 10.1376 | 14.3 | 135 | 10.0 |
| Plumstead | 13.7 | 1.03458 | 14.1 | 117 | 9.6 |