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London County Council 1916
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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TABLE I.
COUNTY OF LONDON.
Vital statistics for the several metropolitan boroughs and the County of London in the year 1916. (Rates per 1,000 of civil population),
| Metropolitan borough. (In topographical order). | Estimated civil population. 1916. | Births. (a) | Deaths. | Infant mortality per 1,000 births). | Measles. | Scarlet fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping cough. | Typhoid fever. | Diarrhœa and Enteritis age 0.2 (per 1,000 births). | Phthisis. | Cancer. | Cases of notifiable infectious disease (b) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet fever. | Diphtheria. | Typhoid fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal fever (per 1,000 births). | Cerebro. spinal fever. | ||||||||||||||
| Western | Paddington | 130,668 | 19.1 | 14.4 | 94 | .03 | .03 | .07 | .17 | .02 | 21.4 | 1.38 | 1.58 | 2.1 | 1.6 | .16 | .8 | 3.0 | .07 |
| Kensington | 152,144 | 18.3 | 15.4 | 86 | .04 | .01 | .06 | .07 | .01 | 13.2 | 1.26 | 1.54 | 1.4 | 1.0 | .13 | .6 | 3.6 | .14 | |
| Hammersmith | 117,965 | 20.3 | 14.2 | 86 | .21 | .03 | .13 | .10 | .01 | 13.1 | 1.51 | 1.23 | 1.8 | 1.8 | .05 | .4 | 3.1 | .03 | |
| Fulham | 149,428 | 23.1 | 13.3 | 88 | .12 | .03 | .13 | .21 | .01 | 17.0 | 1.41 | 1.22 | 1.9 | 2.1 | .03 | .5 | 5.9 | .08 | |
| Chelsea | 57,298 | 18.2 | 16.9 | 94 | .07 | — | .26 | .30 | .02 | 17.7 | 1.48 | 1.57 | 1.9 | 1.8 | .14 | .5 | 1.8 | .09 | |
| Westminster, City of | 132,853 | 12.4 | 13.9 | 87 | .07 | .01 | .10 | .06 | .04 | 16.1 | 1.29 | 1.50 | 1.3 | 1.1 | .18 | .4 | 4.5 | .08 | |
| Northern | St. Marylebone | 98,573 | 16.9 | 15.7 | 100 | .07 | .02 | .06 | .21 | .03 | 16.5 | 1.54 | 1.52 | 1.2 | 1.4 | .13 | .7 | — | .08 |
| Hampstead | 81,470 | 13.1 | 10.7 | 65 | .01 | — | .05 | .10 | — | 5.2 | .74 | 1.41 | 1.7 | 1.2 | .07 | .5 | 1.7 | .06 | |
| St. Pancras | 196,812 | 21.2 | 15.5 | 85 | .21 | .05 | .12 | .20 | .03 | 10.8 | 1.78 | 1.40 | 2.2 | 2.2 | .18 | .6 | 4.0 | .10 | |
| Islington | 309,359 | 21.6 | 15.7 | 89 | .27 | .06 | .15 | .19 | .03 | 15.3 | 1.56 | 1.37 | 2.1 | 1.9 | .10 | .5 | 2.9 | .13 | |
| Stoke Newington | 49,776 | 18.5 | 13.0 | 61 | .02 | .08 | .12 | .02 | — | 9.0 | 1.39 | 1.37 | 1.7 | 2.2 | .06 | .4 | 4.0 | .14 | |
| Hackney | 209,636 | 22.0 | 13.8 | 84 | .19 | .02 | .12 | .18 | .01 | 13.9 | 1.43 | 1.21 | 2.0 | 1.7 | .13 | .8 | 1.6 | .11 | |
| Central | Holborn | 38,161 | 15.6 | 17.6 | 97 | .08 | .05 | .26 | .10 | — | 16.9 | 1.97 | 1.10 | 1.7 | 2.6 | .24 | .6 | 3.1 | .08 |
| Finsbury | 74,230 | 24.7 | 19.4 | 123 | .50 | .03 | .18 | .16 | — | 19.5 | 2.16 | .79 | 2.7 | 2.5 | .05 | .8 | 2.0 | .26 | |
| London, City of | 20,113 | 5.7 | 11.6 | 120 | — | — | — | .05 | — | — | 1.34 | 1.24 | 1.7 | 1.2 | .10 | .3 | 8.0 | .10 | |
| Eastern | Shoreditch | 99,932 | 27.4 | 18.3 | 123 | .34 | .10 | .20 | .36 | .05 | 32.2 | 2.20 | 1.01 | 3.2 | 3.1 | .11 | 1.3 | 1.0 | .18 |
| Bethnal Green | 115,552 | 27.3 | 15.3 | 106 | .19 | .04 | .20 | .38 | .02 | 22.4 | 1.73 | .91 | 3.4 | 3.3 | .16 | 1.4 | 4.7 | .16 | |
| Stepney | 258,395 | 25.6 | 14.9 | 91 | .27 | .05 | .15 | .29 | .03 | 16.9 | 1.90 | .93 | 2.8 | 3.6 | .14 | .9 | 1.4 | .12 | |
| Poplar | 155,095 | 27.0 | 16.3 | 103 | .32 | .05 | .18 | .28 | .03 | 23.2 | 1.61 | .92 | 2.0 | 2.2 | .12 | 1.0 | 3.7 | .12 | |
| Southern | Southwark | 177,166 | 25.4 | 17.3 | 99 | .47 | .03 | .23 | .25 | .01 | 17.8 | 2.24 | 1.18 | 1.7 | 2.5 | .07 | 1.0 | 3.3 | .14 |
| Bermondsey | 113,661 | 28.0 | 17.4 | 101 | .37 | .04 | .24 | .13 | .02 | 16.2 | 1.71 | 1.12 | 2.2 | 2.3 | .10 | .9 | .6 | .15 | |
| Lambeth | 283,729 | 20.9 | 15.2 | 90 | .17 | .03 | .16 | .17 | .00 | 19.7 | 1.52 | 1.37 | 1.7 | 1.5 | .06 | .4 | 3.3 | .11 | |
| Battersea | 159,402 | 21.8 | 13.9 | 84 | .17 | .04 | .17 | .19 | .01 | 14.8 | 1.44 | 1.24 | 2.2 | 2.3 | .09 | .6 | 2.6 | .10 | |
| Wandsworth | 310,858 | 18.2 | 11.9 | 80 | .08 | .02 | .18 | .16 | .02 | 10.7 | 1.05 | 1.29 | 2.2 | 1.7 | .15 | .5 | 3.3 | .09 | |
| Camberwell | 249,749 | 22.5 | 13.7 | 73 | .09 | .04 | .12 | .13 | .01 | 14.2 | 1.61 | 1.09 | 2.0 | 1.9 | .05 | .7 | 1.8 | .04 | |
| Deptford | 107,696 | 24.9 | 15.5 | 88 | .31 | .05 | .12 | .13 | .01 | 18.2 | 1.63 | 1.30 | 2.8 | 2.4 | .06 | 1.0 | 1.7 | .06 | |
| Greenwich | 94,452 | 23.1 | 15.2 | 83 | .53 | .04 | .23 | .24 | .06 | 16.0 | 1.42 | 1.13 | 2.0 | 3.9 | .15 | .6 | 2.5 | .06 | |
| Lewisham | 162,901 | 18.9 | 11.9 | 73 | .09 | .01 | .12 | .17 | .02 | 13.4 | 1.07 | 1.24 | 1.9 | 1.5 | .07 | .4 | 1.8 | .06 | |
| Woolwich | 130,313 | 21.6 | 13.1 | 69 | .18 | .03 | .09 | .25 | .01 | 7.2 | 1.30 | 1.02 | 1.7 | 2.0 | .07 | .7 | 4.9 | .05 | |
| London | 4,237,387 | 21.5 | 14.7 | 89 | .19 | .03 | .15 | .19 | .02 | 16.2 | 1.53 | 1.24 | 2.1 | 2.1 | .11 | .7 | 2.8 | .10 | |
(a) These rates are not calculated on the civil population shown, but have been supplied by the courtesy of the Registrar-General.
(b) Three cases of small-pox were notified, one each in Fulham, Bermondsey and Woolwich; the two latter cases were, however, subsequently found not to be small-pox.
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