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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table 28.— Vital statistics for the metropolitan boroughs and the County of London in the year 1936. (Rates per 1,000 of population.)
| Metropolitan boroughs arranged in topographical order | Estimated resident population 1936 | Live births | Deaths | Infant mortality (per 1,000 live births) | Measles | Scarlet fever | Diphtheria | Whooping cough | Typhoid fever | Diarrhœa and enteritis, age 0-2 (per 1,000 live births') | Pulmonary tuberculosis | Pneumonia | Other resp. dis. | Cancer | Maternal mortality (per 1,000 live births) | Notifications of infectious disease (53 weeks) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet fever | Diphtheria | Ty phoid fever | Erysipelas | Cerebrospinal fever | Acute pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||
| Paddington | 139,200 | 13.8 | 12.8 | 72 | 16.1 | .57 | 1.95 | 5.21 | 1.86 | 1.54 | .05 | ||||||||||
| Kensington | 176,100 | 12.7 | 12.5 | 73 | 17.5 | 1.82 | 1 .74 | 05 | |||||||||||||
| Hammersmith | 127,700 | 15.1 | 12.5 | 60 | 12.5 | 1.95 | 1.56 | 2.59 | 1.03 | ||||||||||||
| Fulham | 141,300 | 14.9 | 12.6 | 64 | .02 | 9.9 | 1.78 | 1.89 | 2.26 | 1.24 | 1.58 | ||||||||||
| Chelsea | 56,500 | 11.3 | 13.7 | 53 | — | .02 | 21.9 | 1.96 | 3.13 | 2.58 | 119 | 1.54 | |||||||||
| Westminster,city of | 124,100 | 8.6 | 11.7 | 64 | — | 10.3 | 1.85 | 1.87 | 1.42 | - | |||||||||||
| St. Marylebone | 92,400 | 9.8 | 12.7 | 75 | .01 | 24.3 | 2.11 | 2.21 | 1.51 | 1.27 | |||||||||||
| Hampstead | 90,700 | 11.6 | 11.3 | 66 | - | .04 | 11.5 | 1.78 | 2.86 | 1.33 | 1.00 | ||||||||||
| St. Pancras | 183,900 | 12.8 | 13.1 | 78 | .01 | 25.4 | 1.96 | 2.97 | 2.29 | 2.61 | 1.22 | ||||||||||
| Islington | 301,000 | 15.4 | 12.6 | 62 | .00 | 15.1 | 1.89 | 2.15 | 2.49 | 1.91 | |||||||||||
| Stoke Newington | 50,350 | 13.8 | 11.4 | 45 | '— | — | 4.3 | 1.57 | 5.76 | 2.59 | 1.49 | - | |||||||||
| Hackney | 209,100 | 14.4 | 12.0 | 63 | — | 12.6 | 1.68 | 1.33 | 2.59 | 1.62 | |||||||||||
| Holborn | 34,850 | 8.3 | 12.0 | 62 | — | — | 10.4 | 1.92 | - | 1.90 | 1.73 | ||||||||||
| Finsbury | 60,800 | 13.8 | 14.0 | 81 | — | 20.2 | 1.09 | 1.86 | 1.19 | 2.42 | 2.50 | 1.18 | |||||||||
| City of London(a) | 9,500 | 7.5 | 11.8 | 141 | — | — | — | — | — | 42.3 | 1.89 | - | 2.91 | - | - | ||||||
| Shoreditch | 85,400 | 14.9 | 12.8 | 75 | — | — | 22.0 | 1.66 | - | 3.32 | 2.53 | ||||||||||
| Bethnal Green | 96,900 | 13.5 | 12.7 | 98 | .02 | 30.5 | 1.81 | 2.29 | 3.40 | 2.26 | |||||||||||
| Stepney | 207,800 | 14.8 | 12.6 | 99 | — | 32.6 | 1.46 | 1.63 | 2.43 | 2.45 | |||||||||||
| Poplar | 140,300 | 15.0 | 12.5 | 73 | — | 16.1 | 1.51 | 1.90 | 3.23 | 3.38 | 2.34 | ||||||||||
| South wark | 152,200 | 14.8 | 13.1 | 59 | - | .01 | 8.4 | 1.06 | 2.03 | 1.77 | 2.28 | 2.19 | |||||||||
| Bermondsey | 100,400 | 15.4 | 12.8 | 60 | - | .04 | 10.4 | 1.78 | 2.61 | 2.03 | 1.23 | ||||||||||
| Lambeth | 277,500 | 13.9 | 12.5 | 59 | .00 | 9.6 | 1.83 | 2.50 | 1.48 | ||||||||||||
| Battersea | 145,500 | 14.6 | 13.1 | 59 | — | 10.3 | 1.79 | 2.35 | 3.32 | 2.17 | 1.81 | ||||||||||
| Wandsworth | 343,000 | 11.5 | 11.8 | 58 | — | .01 | 9.2 | 1.68 | 1.27 | 1.90 | 111 | ||||||||||
| Camberwell | 229,300 | 13 9 | 12.6 | 59 | .00 | 8.5 | 1.82 | 2.19 | 3.04 | 1.11 | |||||||||||
| Deptford | 98,900 | 15.7 | 12.2 | 50 | — | 11.6 | 1.78 | 2.60 | 1.96 | ||||||||||||
| Greenwich | 95,900 | 13.8 | 11.4 | 51 | .01 | 16.6 | 1.42 | 3.13 | 2.64 | ||||||||||||
| Lewisham | 224,000 | 13.1 | 10.9 | 56 | — | 7.5 | 1.62 | 2 05 | 3.68 | 1.03 | |||||||||||
| Woolwich | 146,500 | 13.8 | 11.3 | 60 | 09 | .01 | 12.4 | 1.77 | 2.48 | 4.06 | 1.58 | 1.66 | |||||||||
| 4,141,100 | 13.6 | 12.3 | 66 | .01 | 14.5 | 1.78 | 1.97 | 2.55 | 1.67 | ||||||||||||
(a) Including Inner and Middle Temple.