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, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table No . 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 1920. (52 weeks ended 1st January, 1921.)
Population (Civilian) as Estimated by the Registrar. General in the middle of 1920. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality. | Population (Civilian) as Estimated by the Registrar. General in the middle of 1920. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. (Crude), | Infantile Mortality. | ||
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England and Wales | 37 609,600 | 25.4 | 124 | 80 | County of London | 4,531,971 | 26.3 | 12. 4 | 75 |
Birmingham | 895,915 | 28.0 | 12.6 | 83 | west. | ||||
Liverpool | 803,452 | 31.2 | 15.7 | 111 | Paddington . . | 149,673 | 22.8 | 11.1 | 78 |
Manchester | 770,597 | 25.5 | 130 | 94 | Kensington .. ,. Hammersmith . . | 161,177 136,200 | 24.3 24.5 | 13.0 11.2 | 81 65 |
Sheffield | 492,570 | 26.6 | 13.2 | 104 | Fulham | 158,621 | 27.2 | 11.3 | 74 |
Leeds | 449,212 | 25.6 | 14.3 | 105 | Chelsea | 62,987 | 22.2 | 11.9 | |
Bristol | 375,H41 | 257 | 11.7 | 69 | City of Westminster . . | 132,615 | 16.2 | 11 6 | 71 |
West Ham | 299,440 . | 33.0 | 12.7 | 72 | north. | ||||
Bradford | 293,979 | 20.7 | 13.1 | 92 | St. Marylebone | 101,856 | 21.6 | 12.5 | 65 |
Hull | 290,808 | 29.2 | 13.2 | 98 | Hampstead | 91,519 | 17.1 | 9.0 | 48 |
Newcastle.on.Tyne | 286,061 | 29.4 | 13.8 | 96 | St. Pancras | 228.178 | 25. 4 | 12.3 | 72 |
Nottingham | 267,836 | 25.9 | 12.9 | 95 | Islington Stoke Newington | 907 52.984 | 28.2 23.1 | 13.3 12.8 | 71 80 |
Portsmouth | 233,805 | 25.9 | 11.1 | 60 | o Hacknev • . « . | 225,372 | 26.6 | 12.6 | 81 |
Stoke.on.Trent | 248,852 | 31.1 | 12.7 | 98 | central. | ||||
Salford | 235,239 | 26.8 | 12.7 | 97 | Holborn | 39,676 | 20.8 | 14.9 | 64 |
Leicester | 245,465 | 24.0 | 11.5 | 87 | Finsbury | 78,291 | 31.9 | 14.5 | 76 |
Cardiff | 212,582 | 24.7 | 10.7 | 82 | City of London | 14,447 | 12.6 | 13.3 | 71 |
Bolton | 184,533 | 22.7 | 13.6 | 98 | fast. | ||||
Crovdon | 191,580 | 23.0 | 10.8 | 62 | Shoreditch | 102,044 | 36.6 | 15.4 | 91 |
167,328 | 25.2 | 9.8 | 65 | Bethnal Greeu | 114,471 | 33.7 | 14.7 | 95 | |
Rhondda | 184,999 | 27.3 | 11.7 | 104 | Stepney Ponlar | 241,770 159,766 | 31.2 34.2 | 14.4 14.6 | 87 82 |
Sunderland | 155,211 | 35.0 | 15.8 | 103 | south. | ||||
Oldham | 143,154 | 23.3 | 14.7 | 106 | Southwark | 187,142 | 31.8 | 14.1 | 86 |
Tottenham | 146,970 | 25.5 | 9.7 | 64 | Bermondsey | 129,189 | 31.8 | 130 | 84 |
West Ham | 299,440 | 33.0 | 12.7 | 72 | Lambeth | 293,572 | 27.8 | 13.0 | 67 |
Birkenhead | 153,951 | 27.8 | 12.5 | 101 | Battersea | 165,664 | 28.1 | 12.3 | 82 |
Blackburn | 131,012 | 21.5 | 13.4 | 110 | Wandsworth | 346,990 | 20.8 | 10.0 | 62 |
Brighton Walthamstow | 137,685 132,771 | 22.7 23.9 | 12.0 9.6 | 65 62 | Camberwell Deptford Greenwich | 284,712 115,636 102,408 | 26.5 28.3 25.9 | 11.5 120 11.9 | 70 79 72 |
Leyton | 128,832 | 22.8 | 9.9 | 69 | Lewisham | 174,438 | 23.1 | 10.8. | 65 |
Derby | 128,868 | 25.8 | 10.5 | 72 | Woolwich | 141,666 | 24.7 | 10.4 | 60 |