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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

London County Council 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: The corresponding figures for England and Wales are as follows—

The corresponding figures for England and Wales are as follows—

1851-6034.2189330.7189829.3
1861-7035.2189429.6189929.1
1871-80. 35.5189530.2190028.7
1881-9032.5189629.6190128.5
189131.4189729.5190228.6
189230.4

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The accompanying diagram (II.) shows the London birth-rate in each year since 1850
in relation to the mean birth-rate of the period 1851-1902.

Table: The following table shows the birth-rate in the several metropolitan boroughs in 190.6 per 1,000 persons, and per 100 married females aged 15-45—

The following table shows the birth-rate in the several metropolitan boroughs in 190.6 per 1,000 persons, and per 100 married females aged 15-45—

Metropolitan Boroughs.Births.Birth rate per 1,000 living.Births per 100 married females aged 15-45.
Paddington ...3,30422.419.6
Kensington3,48819.318.8
Hammersmith3,19227.522.1
Fulham4,78932.923.8
*Chelsea1,68522.420.7
Westminster, City of3,28617.916.6
*St. Marylebone3,97629.626.4
Hampstead1,54918.217.8
St. Pancras ...6,45227.021.2
Islington9,21726.921.1
Stoke Newington1,15422.018.7
Hackney6,38228.323.4
*Holborn1,64727.723.3
*Finsbury3,69736.227.9
London, City of34013.114.6
Shoreditch4,06933.926.5
Bethnal-green4,58934.827.5
*Stepney11,59037.929.9
Poplar...5,89034.227.6
Southwark6,89732.824.5
Bermondsey ...4,34632.826.2
*Lambeth9,06729.223.2
Battersea4,94428.4213
Wandsworth ...6,38026.022.0
Camberwell ...7,48728.023.1
Deptford3,39129.923.2
Greenwich2,80228.124.1
Lewisham3,46625.721.8
Woolwich3,73430.723.3
London132,81028.523.3

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Deaths.
The number of deaths in the administrative county of London in 1902 (53 weeks) was
80,105. giving an annual death-rate of 17.2 per 1,000 living. The London death-rate in successive
periods has been as follows:—

Table: All causes—Death-rates per 1,000 living.

All causes—Death-rates per 1,000 living.

1841-5024.8189220.31189818.41
1851-6023.7189321.01189919.61
1861-7024.4189417.41190018.61
1871-8022.5189519.51190117.11
1881-9020.51896 .18.21190217.21
189121.0189717.8l

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The death-rate in each year since 1840, in relation to the mean death-rate of the period
1841-1902, is shown in diagram III.
The following table has been prepared for the purpose of comparing the death-rate of
London with those of other English towns having populations which exceeded 200,000 persons at
the census of 1901.
* Lying-in hospitals arc situated in these districts.
* These death rates are fully corrected for institutions, i.e., by the exclusion of deaths of persons not belonging to but occurring
in institutions situated within London, and by the inclusion of d-aths of persons belonging to London but occurring in London
institutions situated outa:de the administrative county.