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. 4.—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 1932. (52 weeks ended 31st December, 1932.)
Table 4.-Showing the Birth rates, and Infantile Mortality rates of England and Wales and certain of the large Towns, and of London and the Metropolitan Boroughs for 1932. (52 weeks ended 31st December, 1932.)
Estimated Population, Mid. 1932. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality, | Estimated Population, Mid. 1932. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality. | ||
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Birmingham | 1,009,300 | 16.3 | 11.4 | 68 | |||||
Liverpool | 859,500 | 21.1 | 13.2 | 91 | Paddington | 143,600 | 13.8 | 13.3 | 107 |
Manchester | 763.000 | 15.5 | 13.2 | 86 | Kensington | 183,500 | 12.9 | 13.6 | 98 |
Sheffield | 513,000 | 14.4 | 11.7 | 73 | Hammersmith | 133,700 | 14.5 | 12.8 | 66 |
Leeds | 484,900 | 14.4 | 13.3 | 88 | Fulham | 149,600 | 14.3 | 12.4 | 58 |
Bristol | 403,900 | 15.0 | 11.6 | 53 | Chelsea | 59,430 | 11.9 | 12.9 | 52 |
Kingston-upon Hull | 318,200 | 19.2 | 11.8 | 68 | City of Westminster | 126,400 | 9.3 | 12.5 | 67 |
Bradford | 296,300 | 13.6 | 14.0 | 75 | |||||
West Ham | 289,300 | 17.2 | 11.5 | 72 | St. Marylebone | 96,430 | 10.9 | 13.1 | 87 |
Newcastleon-Tyne | 285,100 | 17.1 | 12.4 | 76 | Hampstead | 90,130 | 10.9 | 11.6 | 54 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 276,500 | 17.2 | 12.2 | 87 | |||||
Nottingham | 270,700 | 16.4 | 12.5 | 80 | Islington | 319,100 | 16.0 | 12.7 | 68 |
Portsmouth | 253,100 | 16.2 | 12.3 | 60 | Stoke Newington | 51,680 | 15.0 | 12.9 | 54 |
Leicester | 240,800 | 14.9 | 12.5 | 70 | Hackney | 214,200 | 14.5 | 11.5 | 54 |
Croydon | 237,300 | 14.0 | 10.8 | 49 | |||||
Cardiff | 222,600 | 15.7 | 12.5 | 76 | Holborn | 36,440 | 9.6 | 14.2 | 72 |
Salford | 220,300 | 15.7 | 13.3 | 97 | Finsbury | 69,030 | 16.0 | 13.4 | 88 |
Plymouth | 208,440 | 15.6 | 12.6 | 59 | City of London | 9,990 | 6.5 | 12.8 | 46 |
Sunderland | 188,200 | 21.2 | 13.7 | 95 | |||||
Willesden | 186,800 | 15.4 | 9.9 | 59 | Shoreditch | 95,800 | 17.5 | 12.8 | 80 |
Coventry | 179,800 | 18.7 | 9.7 | 71 | Bethnal Green | 106,300 | 15.4 | 12.1 | 69 |
Bolton | 177,700 | 13.4 | 12.6 | 70 | Stepney | 223,000 | 16.8 | 12.5 | 60 |
Southampton | 177,470 | 17.2 | 12.1 | 54 | Poplar | 152,400 | 17.2 | 12.1 | 63 |
Swansea | 164,900 | 16.3 | 12.0 | 69 | |||||
Tottenham | 156,800 | 14.1 | 10.1 | 51 | Southwark | 168,900 | 16.2 | 13.1 | 72 |
Birkenhead | 147,700 | 17.7 | 11.6 | 70 | Bermondsey | 110,100 | 16.6 | 12.1 | 57 |
Brighton | 145,500 | 13.0 | 13.9 | 41 | Lambeth | 292,300 | 14.8 | 12.5 | 56 |
Derby | 142,400 | 14.5 | 11.6 | 70 | Battersea | 157,000 | 14.8 | 12.1 | 58 |
East Ham | 141,500 | 14.6 | 10.3 | 54 | Wandsworth | 353,300 | 11.8 | 11.6 | 63 |
Rhondda | 140,850 | 17.0 | 12.5 | 71 | Camberwell | 248,000 | 14.6 | 12.0 | 65 |
Middlesbrough | 140,000 | 20.3 | 12.9 | 85 | Deptford | 105,100 | 15.9 | 12.3 | 65 |
Oldham | 138,900 | 12.9 | 14.1 | 83 | Greenwich | 99,590 | 14.8 | 12.0 | 81 |
Ilford | 137,480 | 14.5 | 8.5 | 40 | Lewisbam | 221,500 | 12.7 | 10.2 | 55 |
Walthamstow | 135,010 | 13.3 | 10.0 | 58 | Woolwich | 146,900 | 14.0 | 11.1 | 60 |
Wolverhampton | 133,300 | 16.4 | 11.6 | 61 | |||||
Leyton | 127,140 | 13.1 | 10.5 | 53 | |||||
Stockport | 126,800 | 12.6 | 12.7 | 72 | |||||
Norwich | 126,600 | 14.7 | 12.1 | 56 |