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London County Council 1906

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

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Table: The following table enables comparison to be made of the infant mortality in London and other large English towns.Deaths under one year of age per1,000births.

The following table enables comparison to be made of the infant mortality in London and other large English towns.

Deaths under one year of age per1,000births.

Town.1896-1905.1906.Town.1896-1905.1906.
London15011311West Ham167150
Liverpool180172Bradford159152
Manchester183167Newcastle-on-Tyne167151
Birmingham185168Hull170160
Leeds172151Nottingham181171
Sheffield182158Salford192159
Bristol138127Leicester176168

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London had therefore both in the period 1896-1905 and in 1906 a lower infant mortality than
any of these towns except Bristol,

Table: The following table shows the deaths under one year of age and the number of these deaths per 1,000 births in each of the sanitary areas of the County of London for the period 1901-5 and for the year 1906:—Sanitary areas—Deaths under one year of age per1,000births.

The following table shows the deaths under one year of age and the number of these deaths per 1,000 births in each of the sanitary areas of the County of London for the period 1901-5 and for the year 1906:—

Sanitary areas—Deaths under one year of age per1,000births.

Sanitary area.Deaths under one year of age, 1906. (52 weeks)Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births.
1901-5.1906.
Paddington355123105
Kensington456145132
Hammersmith430145138
Fulham649143134
Chelsea212135133
Westminster. City of328118110
St. Marylebone317134117
Hampstead1139577
St. Pancras753137123
Islington1,089127124
Stoke Newington113115102
Hackney676132119
Holborn149138120
Finsbury469160160
London, City of36134101
Shoreditch644173163
Bethnal Green697150155
Stepney1,453150134
Poplar821154152
Southwark895158144
Bermondsev623159153
Lambeth1,086138131
Battersea591138126
Wandsworth873120121
Camberwell910133130
Deptford472136143
Greenwich318131119
Lewisham391112113
Woolwich388120109
London16,30713921312

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It will be seen from the foregoing table that both in the period 1901-5 and the year 1906
Shoreditch (173 and 163 respectively) had the highest infantile death-rate and Hampstead (95 and 77
respectively) had the lowest.
The reports of Medical Officers of Health of the several sanitary areas of the Administrative
County for the year 1906 contain a table prepared under the instructions of the Local Government
Board and giving the number of deaths, from all causes and certain specified causes, of infants dying
at different periods in the first year of life. From the information thus supplied, the following
table has been compiled, showing the figures for London as a whole.
1 See footnote (1) page 8,
2 See footnote (2) page 7.