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London County Council 1924
[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 1924. (Rates per 1,000 of civil population.
| Metropolitan boroughs. (Arranged in topographical order.) | Estimated civil population, 1924. | Births. | 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. | Pneumonia. | Bronchitis. | Cancer. | Cases of notifiable infectious disease. (a) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet fever. | Diphtheria. | Typhoid fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal fever (per 1,000 births). | Cerebrospinal fever. | Acute pneumonia. | |||||||||||||||
| Western. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Paddington | 146,400 | 17. | 13.1 | 78 | .56 | .02 | .10 | .06 | .01 | 12.8 | .86 | 1.33 | .80 | 1.60 | .95 | 1.89 | .11 | .46 | 3.55 | .01 | 3.09 |
| Kensington | 178,550 | 16.3 | 13.1 | 75 | .42 | .01 | .08 | .11 | .02 | 6.9 | .68 | 1.41 | 1.03 | 1.67 | 1.79 | 1.27 | .18 | .35 | 1.70 | .02 | .87 |
| Hammersmith | 134,200 | 17.9 | 12.3 | 72 | .25 | .04 | .12 | .13 | .01 | 5.8 | 1.07 | 1.15 | 1.00 | 1.47 | 1.77 | 1.98 | .04 | .26 | 4.93 | .05 | 1.14 |
| Fulham | 163,100 | 18.2 | 11.1 | 72 | .18 | .04 | .07 | .10 | .01 | 7.4 | .79 | 1.09 | .85 | 1.38 | 2.21 | 1.60 | .04 | .57 | 8.64 | .01 | 2.01 |
| Chelsea | 64,580 | 14.3 | 13.3 | 64 | .46 | – | .05 | .09 | .02 | 15.1 | 1.24 | .90 | .91 | 1.90 | 1.33 | 1.24 | .14 | .55 | 1.07 | – | 1.59 |
| Westminster, City of | 139,900 | 11.2 | 12.1 | 61 | .19 | .03 | .18 | .02 | – | 2.5 | .89 | .99 | .97 | 1.48 | 1.47 | 1.69 | .11 | .20 | 6.17 | 0.2 | . 65 |
| St. Marylebone | 105,300 | 14.5 | 13.5 | 80 | .48 | .02 | .03 | .02 | .02 | 13.7 | .95 | 1.28 | 1.31 | 1.83 | 1.72 | 1.18 | .17 | .46 | 6.44 | 01 | .65 |
| Hampstead | 87,600 | 13.5 | 11.7 | 56 | .07 | .01 | .03 | .05 | .03 | 8.4 | .66 | .88 | .65 | 1.72 | 1.82 | 1.17 | .12 | .17 | 3.33 | .02 | 116 |
| St. Pancras | 214,300 | 18.9 | 13.1 | 74 | .35 | .06 | .10 | .21 | .01 | 14.3 | 1.09 | 1.02 | 1.46 | 1.42 | 3.49 | 2.85 | .06 | .50 | 3.90 | .01 | 1.95 |
| Islington | 337,400 | 19.9 | 12.4 | 67 | .31 | .03 | .09 | .17 | .01 | 7.8 | .98 | 1.24 | .99 | 1.43 | 3.15 | 2.51 | .04 | .34 | 2.79 | .01 | .55 |
| Stoke Newington | 52,920 | 16.6 | 11.5 | 56 | .08 | .02 | .09 | .06 | – | 5.7 | .70 | .94 | .60 | 1.51 | 1.66 | 1.96 | .02 | .19 | 1.13 | .02 | .22 |
| Hackney | 226,900 | 18.6 | 11.2 | 59 | .13 | .03 | .14 | .07 | – | 6.2 | .97 | 1.00 | .76 | 1.37 | 2.32 | 2.42 | .03 | .21 | 2.57 | .03 | .19 |
| Holborn | 43,250 | 13.4 | 12.2 | 81 | .25 | .02 | .09 | .14 | – | 5.2 | 1.09 | 1.04 | 1.23 | 1.62 | 2.08 | 1.64 | .05 | .50 | 3.41 | – | 1.46 |
| Finsbury | 77,180 | 21.6 | 14.3 | 78 | .58 | .03 | .18 | .32 | – | 7.2 | 1.23 | 1.30 | 1.63 | 1.30 | 2.85 | 2.51 | .06 | 1.24 | 4.14 | .03 | .79 |
| London, City of (b) | 13,621 | 7.2 | 12.0 | 112 | – | .07 | – | .07 | – | – | 1.17 | 1.10 | .59 | 1.54 | .94 | .72 | .14 | – | – | – | .43 |
| Shoreditch | 106,500 | 25.0 | 13.6 | 84 | .59 | .03 | .14 | .26 | .01 | 9.8 | 1.18 | 1.62 | 1.62 | 1.21 | 3.45 | 3.63 | .04 | .52 | 3.71 | .02 | 3.38 |
| Bethnal Green | 119,200 | 22.1 | 12.3 | 77 | .36 | .03 | .24 | .13 | .10 | 11.4 | 1.11 | 1.56 | .96 | 1.02 | 3.53 | 4.73 | .75 | .64 | 2.24 | .02 | 2.80 |
| Stepney | 253,740 | 21.3 | 12.4 | 76 | .26 | .01 | .09 | .15 | .02 | 14.4 | 1.15 | 1.53 | .95 | 1.21 | 2.21 | 2.20 | .11 | .42 | 2.55 | .03 | 1.87 |
| Poplar | 167,300 | 22.9 | 12.1 | 72 | .23 | .04 | .12 | .23 | .01 | 7.6 | .97 | 1.77 | 1.08 | 1.28 | 2.91 | 2.40 | .06 | .34 | 2. 06 | .02 | 3.64 |
| Southwark | 187,714 | 22.5 | 14.1 | 71 | .40 | .05 | .27 | .09 | .01 | 10.2 | 1.40 | 1. 43 | 1.09 | 1.32 | 2.81 | 4.18 | .06 | .66 | 4.68 | .02 | 1.27 |
| Bermondsey | 122,100 | 24.3 | 13.7 | 79 | .41 | .05 | .21 | .10 | .01 | 10.1 | 1.18 | 1.83 | 1.01 | 1.44 | 3.20 | 4.39 | .02 | .34 | 0.67 | .01 | 1.96 |
| Lambeth | 309,300 | 19.0 | 12.6 | 67 | .28 | .04 | .17 | .08 | .00 | 9.7 | 1.03 | 1.14 | 1.04 | 1.52 | 3 .04 | 1.94 | .06 | .33 | 3.52 | .02 | .91 |
| Battersea | 171,000 | 18.4 | 11.8 | 62 | .30 | .02 | .15 | .10 | .01 | 7.3 | .89 | .93 | 1. 07 | 1.35 | 2.32 | 2.53 | .05 | .44 | 4.71 | .03 | 2.97 |
| Wandsworth | 338,200 | 14.7 | 11.1 | 57 | .21 | .02 | .07 | .08 | – | 4.4 | .73 | .66 | .74 | 1.51 | 2.47 | 1.36 | .05 | .33 | 4.56 | .02 | 1.70 |
| Camberwell | 273,700 | 18.8 | 11.4 | 70 | .28 | .03 | .19 | .06 | .01 | 9.5 | 1.00 | 1.04 | .87 | 1.38 | 2.17 | 3.00 | .04 | .40 | 2.88 | .01 | .63 |
| Deptford | 115,200 | 20.6 | 12.0 | 76 | .30 | .02 | .13 | .13 | .03 | 6.7 | .90 | 1.30 | .79 | 1.28 | 2.52 | 3.04 | .16 | .69 | 2.91 | – | 1.22 |
| Greenwich | 102,470 | 20.0 | 11.5 | 74 | .29 | .01 | .14 | .15 | .01 | 11.6 | 1.02 | .87 | .70 | 1.12 | 2.82 | 3 .07 | .10 | .48 | 2.39 | .02 | 1.08 |
| Lewisham | 184,900 | 16.4 | 10.4 | 48 | .10 | .03 | .05 | .06 | .01 | 4.3 | .72 | .78 | .79 | 1.42 | 1.96 | .98 | .06 | .30 | 3.25 | – | .61 |
| Woolwich | 139,980 | 17.9 | 11.0 | 65 | .20 | .03 | .06 | .09 | .01 | 3.9 | 1.22 | .68 | 1.01 | 1.29 | 2.87 | 1.37 | .06 | .32 | 2.67 | .08 | 2.39 |
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11908
e 2
(а) Four cases of smallpox were notified, one each in Kensington, Chelsea, Westminster and St. Pancras. there were no deaths.
(b) Including Inner and Middle Temples.