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 St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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Table N o . 5.—Showing the Birth rates, Death rates, and Infantile Mortality rates of England and Wales and certain of the large Towns, and of London and the Metropolitan Boroughs for 1914.
| Population as Estimated by the Registrar. General in the middle of 1914. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality. | Population as Estimated by the Registrar. General in the middle of 1914. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. (Crude). | Infantile Mortality. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | 860,591 | 27.0 | 15.0 | 122 | west. | ||||
| Liverpool | 763,926 | 80.3 | 19.4 | 139 | Paddington Kensington | 142,19 3 171,34 | 209 18.8 | 13.0 13.1 | 95 94 |
| Manchester | 731,830 | 25.8 | 16.7 | 127 | Hammersmith | 123,853 | 23.8 | 13.9 | 94 |
| Sheffield | 472,234 | 27.4 | 16.3 | 132 | Fulham | 157,303 | 23.5 | 13.4 | 113 |
| Leeds | 457,507 | 23.5 | 14.8 | 123 | Chelsea | 64,511 | 20.2 | 13.5 | 67 |
| Bristol | 361,573 | 21.5 | 13.3 | 100 | City of Westminster | 154,544 | 14.0 | 12.6 | 80 |
| West Ham | 294,476 | 30.3 | 14.8 | 106 | north. | ||||
| Bradford | 290,612 | 19.6 | 15.6 | 123 | St, Marylebone | 114,355 | 18.7 | 13.8 | 98 |
| Hull | 237,472 | 27.6 | 15.3 | 121 | Hampstead | 86,388 | 14.8 | 10.4 | 80 |
| Newcastle-on-Tyne | 271,523 | 27.9 | 17.0 | 136 | |||||
| Islington | 325,496 | 25.2 | 15.2 | 105 | |||||
| Nottingham | 264,970 | 23.4 | 15.3 | 145 | Islington Stoke Newington | 50,511 | 20.7 | 13.1 | 78 |
| rortsmoutn | 241,748 | 23.6 | 12.6 | 85 | Hackney | 223,393 | 24.5 | 13.9 | 92 |
| Stoke.on.Trent | 239,515 | 31.9 | 17.6 | 144 | central. | ||||
| Salford | 233,970 | 26.7 | 16.5 | 125 | Holborn | 46,832 | 16 .4 | 16.1 | 90 |
| Leicester | 231,152 | 22.0 | 13.9 | 120 | Finsbury | 84,521 | 30.1 | 19.6 | 123 |
| Cardiff | 185,763 | 25.7 | 13.9 | 120 | City of London | 17,831 | 10.2 | 134 | 94 |
| Bolton | 184,026 | 21.9 | 14.4 | 119 | east. Shoreditch | 109,569 | 32.1 | 19.0 | 141 |
| Croydon | 178,511 | 22.4 | 11.0 | 80 | Bethnal Green | 127,807 | 29.7 | 16.0 | 137 |
| Willesden | 164,115 | 24.0 | 10.5 | 86 | Stepney | 275,081 | 29.4 | 16.5 | 124 |
| Rhondda | 162,592 | 34.0 | 14.5 | 136 | Poplar | 160,839 | 81.6 | 17.1 | 116 |
| Sunderland | 152,436 | 32.4 | 16.9 | 134 | south. | ||||
| Oldham | 150,055 | 23.2 | 17.7 | 138 | Southwark | 188,321 | 29.8 | 17.8 | 124 |
| Tottenham | 146,141 | 26.0 | 11.5 | 92 | Bermondsey | 124,633 | 310 | 17.4 | 125 |
| East Ham | 142,905 | 23.9 | 10.3 | 77 | Lambeth | 297,094 | 23.7 | 14.6 | 104 |
| Birkenhead | 135,789 | 27 .8 | 15.2 | 120 | Battersea | 167,451 | 25.8 | 13.3 | 93 |
| Blackburn | 134,015 | 20,8 | 14,6 | 115 | Wandsworth | 331,321 | 20.2 | 10.9 | 89 |
| Camberwell | 261,828 | 25.2 | 13.7 | 99 | |||||
| Brighton | 133,186 | 17.6 | 133 | 82 | Deptford | 109,269 | 28.6 | 14.4 | 99 |
| Walthamstow | 131,890 | 23.3 | 10.5 | 80 | Greenwich | 96,018 | 25.1 | 14.7 | 98 |
| Leyton | 131,224 | 20.9 | 10.2 | 79 | Lewisham | 169,211 | 19.8 | 10.9 | 74 |
| Derby | 125,562 | 24.0 | 12.8 | 92 | Woolwich | 122,431 | 23.3 | 13.8 | 85 |