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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T able 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 1923. (52 weeks ended 29th December, 1923.)
Adjusted Population, Mid. 1922. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality. | - | Adjusted Population, Mid. 1922. | Birth Rate. | Death Kate (Crude). | Infantile Mortality. | |
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Birmingham | 945,100 | 20.4 | 10.7 | 71 | |||||
Liverpool | 826,400 | 24.9 | 13.5 | 98 | Paddington | 145,300 | 18.1 | 11.5 | 63 |
Manchester | 748,500 | 21.2 | 13.1 | 85 | Kensington | 179,100 | 17.5 | 12.0 | 71 |
Sheffield | 522,600 | 19.6 | 11.3 | 89 | Hammersmith | 134,.100 | 20.2 | 10.8 | 63 |
Leeds | 466,700 | 19.2 | 12.6 | 85 | Fulham | 159,500 | 19 6 | 10.5 | 63 |
Bristol | 383,900 | 19.5 | 11.2 | 61 | Chelsea | 63,920 | 15.9 | 12.1 | 55 |
West Ham | 310,200 | 26.2 | 10.6 | 58 | City of Westminster North. | 139,390 | 12.1 | 10.5 | 46 |
Hull | 294,000 | 23.6 | 11.3 | 83 | |||||
Bradford | 291,300 | 18.1 | 13.5 | 78 | St. Marylebone | 105,2C0 | 15.8 | 11.5 | 68 |
Newcastle-on-Tyne | 281,600 | 24.7 | 12.7 | 89 | Hampstead | 86,920 | 14.3 | 10.3 | 42 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 274,300 | 24.8 | 12.7 | 93 | St. Pancras | 212,500 | 20.6 | 12.0 | 63 |
Nottingham | 267,900 | 20.2 | 12.0 | 85 | Islington | 333,900 | 21.4 | 11.6 | 66 |
Salford | 240,700 | 20.8 | 12.9 | 95 | Stoke Newinwton | 52,620 | 18.3 | 10.6 | 48 |
Leicester | 238,800 | 19.4 | 11.4 | 81 | Hackney | 225,400 | 19.7 | 10.6 | 58 |
Portsmouth | 236,630 | 21.3 | 10.7 | 52 | |||||
Cardiff | 223,830 | 23.1 | 11.9 | 72 | Holborn | 42,850 | 13.9 | 12.1 | 76 |
Plymouth | 2(0,370 | 20.0 | 11.9 | 50 | Finsbury | 76,840 | 24.1 | 13.1 | 60 |
Croydon | 192,300 | 17.9 | 10.3 | 52 | City of London East. | 13,363 | 8.3 | 11.5 | 81 |
Boltou | 182,700 | 17.3 | 12.7 | 86 | |||||
Willesden | 168,200 | 17.8 | 9.3 | 54 | Shoreditch | 105,800 | 27.1 | 12.9 | 80 |
Bhondda | 167,500 | 28.1 | 10.7 | 88 | Bethnal Green | 118,400 | 24.4 | 11.3 | 69 |
Southampton | 163,700 | 19.7 | 11.1 | 53 | Stepney | 252,170 | 23.5 | 11.6 | 63 |
Sunderland | 162,900 | 25.2 | 13.7 | 97 | Poplar | 165,700 | 25.8 | 11.2 | 59 |
Swansea | 161,000 | 21.2 | 11.4 | 77 | |||||
Tottenham | 150,500 | 17.7 | 9.2 | 67 | Southwark | 187,220 | 24.4 | 12.8 | 68 |
Birkenhead | 149,200 | 21.7 | 10.6 | 62 | Bermondsey | 121,100 | 25.0 | 12.1 | 73 |
Oldham | 148,300 | 17.7 | 15.8 | 112 | Lambeth | 307,000 | 20.4 | 11.4 | 58 |
East Ham | 145,800 | 17.6 | 8.9 | 54 | Battersea | 169,200 | 20.4 | 10.7 | 48 |
Brighton | 135,279 | 16.9 | 12.0 | 57 | Wandsworth | 334,900 | 16.4 | 10.1 | 52 |
Middlesbrough | 134,800 | 27.6 | 12.9 | 86 | Camberwell | 270,300 | 21.0 | 11.0 | 56 |
Derby | 132,400 | 19.7 | 11.4 | 63 | Deptford | 114,100 | 21.3 | 10.9 | 58 |
Leyton | 131,600 | 15.4 | 91 | 50 | Greenwich | 102,000 | 20.8 | 10.8 | 62 |
Coventry | 131,200 | 17.3 | 9.2 | 61 | Lewisham | 176,600 | 18.7 | 10.3 | 45 |
\Valthamstow | 129,700 | 18.2 | 8.8 | 50 | Woolwich | 138,250 | 20.2 | 9.9 | 43 |
Blackburn | 129,600 | 16.3 | 13.2 | 99 | |||||
Gateshead | 127,300 | 24.2 | 12.6 | 96 | |||||
Stockport | 125,800 | 17.5 | 12.2 | 90 |
†Estimated population to middle of 1923.