London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
This page requires JavaScript
13
Report of the County Medical Officer—General.
The following table shows the corrected death-rates from all causes in each metropolitan borough during the last seven years:—
| Metropolitan borough. | Corrected death rates. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906. | 1907. | 1908. | 1909. | 1910. | 1911. | 1912. | |
| Paddington | 12.9 | 14.0 | 12.8 | 13.6 | 12.5 | 13.3 | 12.3 |
| Kensington | 14.2 | 14.2 | 13.5 | 14.0 | 12.6 | 13.6 | 12.9 |
| Hammersmith | 15.0 | 14.6 | 14.3 | 14.8 | 12.7 | 15.4 | 13.0 |
| Fulham | 15.7 | 15.2 | 14.7 | 14.4 | 12.9 | 14.9 | 13.2 |
| Chelsea | 15.8 | 15.3 | 15.1 | 15.4 | 13.6 | 14.7 | 13.8 |
| Westminster, City of | 13.8 | 13.9 | 13.6 | 14.2 | 12.4 | 13.1 | 13.0 |
| St. Marylebone | 15.7 | 15.6 | 14.9 | 15.6 | 13.7 | 15.4 | 14.1 |
| Hampstead | 10.6 | 10.3 | 9.7 | 10.4 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 10.4 |
| St. Pancras | 16.5 | 15.6 | 15.4 | 15.9 | 14.8 | 15.5 | 14.6 |
| Islington | 15.0 | 14.9 | 13.6 | 14.6 | 13.5 | 14.5 | 14.0 |
| Stoke Newington | 11.5 | 11.4 | 12.3 | 11.5 | 11.2 | 12.4 | 11.5 |
| Hackney | 14.0 | 14.3 | 13.9 | 13.6 | 12.8 | 14.4 | 12.2 |
| Holborn | 18.4 | 17.8 | 17.0 | 16.5 | 15.9 | 15.7 | 15.3 |
| Finsbury | 21.1 | 19.1 | 19.1 | 20.2 | 18.3 | 19.6 | 18.6 |
| London, City of | 16.7 | 15.5 | 16.6 | 18.0 | 13.7 | 15.7 | 14.0 |
| Shoreditch | 20.5 | 21.3 | 18.2 | 19.9 | 17.6 | 20.7 | 18.7 |
| Bethnal Green | 20.0 | 18.2 | 17.9 | 17.9 | 16.2 | 18.9 | 15.9 |
| Stepney | 19.7 | 17.6 | 18.6 | 17.5 | 15.9 | 18.1 | 15.9 |
| Poplar | 17.9 | 17.2 | 16.2 | 16.8 | 15.9 | 18.7 | 16.2 |
| Southwark | 19.1 | 19.1 | 17.5 | 18.3 | 17.5 | 18.5 | 16.8 |
| Bermondsey | 19.8 | 18.1 | 18.6 | 18.9 | 17.7 | 18.4 | 16.8 |
| Lambeth | 15.5 | 15.1 | 13.9 | 14.9 | 13.4 | 14.6 | 13.0 |
| Battersea | 14.3 | 14.4 | 13.3 | 14.5 | 12.8 | 14.4 | 12.3 |
| Wandsworth | 12.8 | 12.3 | 11.5 | 12.0 | 10.2 | 12.0 | 10.2 |
| Camberwell | 15.2 | 14.4 | 13.4 | 14.3 | 13.0 | 14.1 | 12.7 |
| Deptford | 16.7 | 14.6 | 14.5 | 14.5 | 15.0 | 15.4 | 13.0 |
| Greenwich | 14.6 | 13.8 | 14.0 | 13.9 | 13.3 | 14.5 | 12.9 |
| Lewisham | 12.1 | 11.5 | 11.2 | 10.5 | 9.8 | 11.1 | 10.2 |
| Woolwich | 14.4 | 13.7 | 12.7 | 13.4 | 12.0 | 13.1 | 11.9 |
Corrected
death-rates,
all causes,
1906-12.
Infantile Mortality.
The deaths of children under one year of age in the Administrative County of London during
1912 (52 weeks) numbered 10,056, being in the proportion of 91 per 1,000 births.
The proportion in successive periods has been as follows:—
| Period. | Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births. | Period. | Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1841-1850 | 157a | 1903 | 130b |
| 1851-1860 | 155a | 1904 | 145b |
| 1861-1870 | 162a | 1905 | 130b |
| 1871-1880 | 158a | 1906 | 131b |
| 1881-1890 | 152 | 1907 | 116b |
| 1891-1900 | 159b | 1908 | 113b |
| 1901-1910 | 126b | 1909 | 108b |
| 1910 | 103b | ||
| 1901 | 148b | 1911 | 129b |
| 1902 | 140b | 1912 | 91b |
Deaths of
infants per
1,000 births.
The accompanying diagram (E.) shows the infantile mortality in each year since 1857 in relation
to the mean infantile mortality of the period 1858-1912, and also the infantile mortality in each year
after exclusion of the deaths from premature birth, which cause of death would in all probability be
affected in greater degree than the deaths under any other heading by the more complete registration
of recent years.
(a) The registration of births was not made compulsory until the beginning of 1875; before that year many births
were probably unregistered. (b) See footnotes (b) and (c), page 4