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.—
— | Adjusted Population, Mid. 1921. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality. | — | Adjusted Population, Mid. 1921. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. (Crude.) | Infantile Mortality. |
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England and Wales | †37,885,242 | 20.6 | 12.9 | 77 | |||||
Birmingham | 936,000 | 21.6 | 11.9 | 85 | County of London | 4,514,405 | 21.0 | 13.4 | 74 |
Liverpool | 817,000 | 26.4 | 14.5 | 94 | |||||
Manchester | 744,000 | 21.9 | 14.0 | 94 | Paddington | 145,600 | 18.8 | 12.8 | 69 |
Sheffield | 519,239 | 21.0 | 11.6 | 81 | Kensington | 177,300 | 17.8 | 13.4 | 84 |
Leeds | 465,500 | 20.5 | 13.7 | 97 | Hammersmith | 128,708 | 21.0 | 13.3 | 71 |
Bristol | 381,700 | 20.1 | 12.8 | 71 | Fulham | 159,400 | 20.3 | 12.0 | 68 |
West Ham | 307,000 | 27.1 | 13.3 | 77 | Chelsea | 64,290 | 16.6 | 13.1 | 63 |
Hull | 291,800 | 24.6 | 14.3 | 106 | City of Westminster | 139,893 | 13.2 | 12.5 | 55 |
Bradford | 291,100 | 18.1 | 13.8 | 86 | |||||
Newcastle-on-Tyne | 278,400 | 26.8 | 14.2 | 86 | St. Marylebone | 105,200 | 16.0 | 13.5 | 67 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 273,238 | 26.2 | 14.3 | 115 | Hampstead | 86,890 | 14.8 | 10.9 | 54 |
Nottingham | 266,400 | 21.3 | 12.2 | 81 | St. Pancras | 212,900 | 21.4 | 14.5 | 73 |
Salford | 239,100 | 22.3 | 13.9 | 103 | Islington | 333,000 | 22.7 | 13.8 | 76 |
Leicester | 237,900 | 19.9 | 12.6 | 85 | Stoke Newington | 52,590 | 17.8 | 13.6 | 66 |
Portsmouth | 233,929 | 22.4 | 12.3 | 63 | Hackney | 224,200 | 21.2 | 12.7 | 72 |
Cardiff | 222,089 | 22.5 | 12.8 | 79 | |||||
Plymouth | 199,869 | 20.1 | 14.1 | 72 | Holborn | 43,520 | 15.3 | 12.8 | 74 |
Croydon | 191,500 | 18.9 | 12.3 | 67 | Finsbury | 76,690 | 25.2 | ie.2 | 79 |
Bolton | 182,200 | 18.6 | 13.5 | 94 | City of London | 13,527 | 10.9 | 13.9 | 81 |
Willesden | 167,200 | 18.7 | 10.5 | 59 | |||||
Rhondda | 166,600 | 24.4 | 12.0 | 80 | Shoreditch | 105,200 | 28.1 | 16.3 | 102 |
Southampton | 162,200 | 20.5 | 12.0 | 67 | Bethnal Green | 118,300 | 25.2 | 15.3 | 90 |
Sunderland | 161,100 | 29.0 | 15.7 | 105 | Stepney | 252,000 | 23.9 | 13.9 | 80 |
Swansea | 159/00 | 21.4 | 12.8 | 81 | Poplar | 164,100 | 26.9 | 14.4 | 78 |
Tottenham | 149,200 | 18.8 | 11.2 | 73 | |||||
Oldham | 148,300 | 19.1 | 15.5 | 107 | Southwark | 186,000 | 24.6 | 15.6 | 79 |
Birkenhead | 147,800 | 23.4 | 13.1 | 94 | Bermondsey | 120,500 | 27.0 | 17.0 | 101 |
East Ham | 145,500 | 19.4 | 10.9 | 67 | Lambeth | 305,700 | 20.8 | 13.7 | 77 |
Brighton | 134,800 | 17.4 | 13.6 | 64 | Battersea | 169,200 | 21.7 | 13.1 | 69 |
Middlesbrough | 133,400 | 28.7 | 14.7 | 111 | Wandsworth | 331,500 | 16.6 | 11.2 | 61 |
Derby | 131,800 | 20.9 | 11.2 | 71 | Camberwell | 269,600 | 21.5 | 13.4 | 78 |
Coventry | 130,300 | 19.3 | 10.5 | 68 | Deptford | 113,500 | 23.2 | 13.8 | 74 |
Leyton | 130,100 | 16.7 | 10.7 | 71 | Greenwich | 101,400 | 21.0 | 12.9 | 58 |
Walthamstow | 129,800 | 18.8 | 10.7 | 63 | Lewisham | 175,800 | 18.2 | 11.1 | 54 |
Blackburn | 129,682 | 17.1 | 14.0 | 96 | Woolwich | 137,604 | 20.8 | 11.5 | 62 |
Gateshead | 126,700 | 25.4 | 15.2 | 110 | |||||
Stockport | 125,500 | 17.5 | 13.0 | 76 |
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† Enumerated population in 1921 (unrevised).