Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table V.l—Vital statistics—Metropolitan Boroughs and the Administrative County of London, 1957 (a)
Metropolitan Boroughs | Estimated home population mid if) 57 | Live birth rate | Death rate (all causes) | Infant Mortality (per t,ooo live births) | Death-rates | Notifications of infectious disease | |||||||||||||||||
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Cancer | Vascular lesions of C.N.S. | Heart disease | Other circulatory | Pneumonia | Other respiratory (including bronchitis) | Violence | Dysentery | Food poisoning | Measles | Pneumonia | Poliomyelitis | Scarlet fever | whoop- ing cough | Tuberculosis | |||||||||
Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | ||||||||||||||||||||
Paralytic | Nonparalytic | Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | ||||||||||||||||||||
Chelsea | 50,600 | 14.6 | 11.1 | 14.8 | 10.2 | 22 | 2.59 | 2.15 | 41.1 | 1.50 | 1.07 | 0.85 | 0.65 | 1.40 | 8.02 | 0.85 | – | 0.67 | 1.36 | 0.89 | |||
Fulham | 116,200 | 15.3 | 14.7 | 11.0 | 11.2 | 203 | 102 | 3.24 | 0.53 | 0.56 | 114 | 0.45 | 0.92 | 13.18 | 0.50 | 0.28 | 1.20 | 1.04 | |||||
Hammersmith | 111,700 | 16.9 | 15.7 | 11.0 | 11.9 | 25 | 2.65 | 1.30 | 2.90 | 0.47 | 0.52 | 1.05 | 0.45 | 1.23 | 0.45 | 11.34 | 0.82 | – | 0.34 | 117 | 113 | ||
Kensington | 167,900 | 16.5 | 11.9 | 10.4 | 10.7 | 28 | 2.17 | 1.28 | 2.76 | 0.64 | 0.56 | 0.74 | 0.58 | 0.46 | 0.31 | 5.85 | 0.45 | 0.20 | 0.77 | 1.14 | |||
Hampstead | 97,130 | 15.1 | 11.3 | 10.5 | 10.7 | 18 | 2.37 | 1.24 | 2.98 | 0.67 | 0.53 | 0.65 | 0.45 | 0.27 | 8.53 | 0.49 | 0.57 | 1.11 | 1.11 | ||||
Paddington | 120,500 | 18.7 | 14.8 | 10.0 | 10.8 | 24 | 2.15 | 1.02 | 2.82 | 0.41 | 0.48 | 0.61 | 0.77 | 0.27 | 0.46 | 9.98 | 0.46 | 0.42 | 0.77 | 1.59 | |||
St. Marylebone | 72,530 | 10.9 | 8.5 | 15.5 | 11.4 | 32 | 2.79 | 1.97 | 5.74 | 0.63 | 0.47 | 1.14 | 0.51 | 6.98 | 0.39 | 0.84 | 0.90 | ||||||
St. Pancras | 132,000 | 16.8 | 14.4 | 10.9 | 11.4 | 21 | 2.47 | 1.05 | 308 | 0.39 | 0.70 | 0.98 | 0.59 | 0.94 | 0.98 | 7.70 | 113 | 0.78 | 2.14 | 1.80 | |||
Westminster City of | 95,930 | 11.1 | 9.1 | 9.6 | 10.0 | 22 | 2.18 | 101 | 2.68 | 0.46 | 0.39 | 0.66 | 0.57 | 0.25 | 5.75 | – | 0.65 | 1.06 | |||||
Finsbury | 34,830 | 20.5 | 18.0 | 10.0 | 10.6 | 2.10 | 0.72 | 3.04 | 0.63 | 1.06 | 3.42 | 9.88 | 1.64 | 1.12 | 1.35 | 1.09 | |||||||
Holborn | 22,230 | 11.4 | 8.1 | 11.8 | 13.2 | 2.34 | 3.46 | 0.72 | 0.90 | 4.45 | 0.27 | 1.44 | – | ||||||||||
Islington | 227,800 | 20.1 | 18.1 | 10.8 | 10.8 | 21 | 2.27 | 0.91 | 3.17 | 0.62 | 0.70 | 1.06 | 0.43 | 1.71 | 0.58 | 7.71 | 0.75 | 0.10 | 0.02 | 0.87 | 1.87 | 1.12 | 0.13 |
Hackney | 165,000 | 15.8 | 14.7 | 11.0 | 12.2 | 20 | 2.56 | 1.15 | 3.28 | 0.48 | 0.49 | 1.02 | 0.45 | 0.78 | 0.19 | 13.66 | 0.44 | 0.55 | 1.08 | 0.77 | |||
Shoreditch | 43,870 | 16.8 | 15.1 | 14.0 | 10.5 | 2.80 | 2.05 | 3.10 | 0.78 | 1.23 | 1.46 | 1.60 | 17.55 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.71 | |||||||
Stoke Ncwington | 50,480 | 17.6 | 15.7 | 9.8 | 11.3 | 28 | 2.10 | 1.13 | 2.89 | 0.42 | 0.85 | 1.94 | 15.51 | 0.42 | 1.05 | 0.87 | 0.69 | ||||||
Bethnal Green | 50,940 | 15.8 | 14.5 | 11.3 | 11.5 | 2.41 | 106 | 312 | 0.49 | 0.75 | 1.33 | 208 | 15.39 | – | 0.49 | 1.39 | 0.80 | ||||||
City of London(b) | 5,100 | 6.3 | 5.6 | 10.4 | 10.6 | – | – | – | |||||||||||||||
Poplar | 67,080 | 16.8 | 15.6 | 10.3 | 11.9 | 21 | 2.24 | 0.95 | 2.55 | 0.42 | 0.52 | 1.31 | 0.45 | 0.79 | 0.76 | 15.06 | 0.81 | 0.88 | 1.74 | 0.79 | |||
Stepney | 97,810 | 19.0 | 16.7 | 12.4 | 14.0 | 24 | 2.55 | 1.11 | 3.50 | 0.61 | 0.99 | 1.22 | 0.50 | 0.35 | 14.29 | 0.79 | 0.47 | 0.78 | 1.23 | ||||
Deptford | 70,970 | 14.8 | 14.2 | 12.2 | 10.9 | 2.52 | 1.32 | 3.51 | 0.61 | 0.93 | 1.32 | 0.31 | 11.54 | 0.63 | – | – | 0.83 | 1.24 | 2.01 | ||||
Greenwich | 88,910 | 14.1 | 13.3 | 9.6 | 11.0 | 29 | 2.15 | 0.87 | 2.64 | 0.48 | 0.49 | 0.93 | 0.40 | 0.25 | 13.43 | 0.31 | 1.15 | 1.09 | 0.85 | ||||
Woolwich | 146,200 | 13.7 | 13.6 | 10.3 | 10.9 | 26 | 2.20 | 1.05 | 3.06 | 0.49 | 0.72 | 0.70 | 0.34 | 0.68 | 0.34 | 9.47 | 1.39 | 0.99 | 0.94 | 0.90 | |||
Camberwcll | 177,700 | 16.7 | 15.4 | 10.6 | 10.9 | 24 | 2.15 | 1.13 | 3.15 | 0.57 | 0.68 | 0.84 | 0.29 | 0.43 | 0.32 | 16.13 | 0.43 | 0.74 | 1.88 | 1.25 | |||
Lewisham | 220,900 | 14.9 | 14.2 | 11.0 | 11.0 | 16 | 2.25 | 1.42 | 3.39 | 0.48 | 0.52 | 0.88 | 0.38 | 0.66 | 0.22 | 12.35 | 0.43 | 0.65 | 102 | 1.00 | 0.12 | ||
Bermondsey | 54,750 | 17.0 | 16.0 | 11.5 | 12.7 | 22 | 2.48 | 1.10 | 3.00 | 0.38 | 0.60 | 1.39 | 0.64 | 20.07 | 0.58 | – | – | 1.26 | 2.06 | 1.39 | – | ||
Lambeth | 224,300 | 18.7 | 16.8 | 10.5 | 10.8 | 23 | 2.14 | 1.07 | 3.14 | 0.49 | 0.71 | 0.84 | 0.40 | 0.30 | 0.26 | 13.24 | 0.97 | 0.69 | 1.15 | 0.88 | |||
Southwark | 91,140 | 18.0 | 16.0 | 12.0 | 10.8 | 23 | 2.39 | 0.92 | 3.76 | 0.68 | 1.09 | 0.84 | 0.38 | 0.38 | 0.22 | 12.94 | 0.67 | 1.57 | 2.06 | 1.33 | |||
Battersea | 111,800 | 16.1 | 15.1 | 10.9 | 11.1 | 23 | 2.54 | 1.23 | 3.27 | 0.47 | 0.45 | 0.91 | 0.43 | 0.29 | 0.23 | 12.54 | 0.61 | 0.51 | 1.06 | 0.80 | |||
Wandsworth | 337,700 | 14.9 | 14.3 | 14.7 | 10.2 | 16 | 3.53 | 1.48 | 4.61 | 0.73 | 0.75 | 0.84 | 0.44 | 0.69 | 0.78 | 11.26 | 0.97 | 0.13 | 0.08 | 0.69 | 1.03 | 0.77 | |
London, 1957 | 3,254,000 | 16.2 | 14.4 | 11.4 | 11.3 | 22 | 2.44 | 1.19 | 3.34 | 0.56 | 0.65 | 0.93 | 0.46 | 0.72 | 0.37 | 11.36 | 0.67 | 0.06 | 0.04 | 0.67 | 1.22 | 1.06 | 0.09 |
3,273,000 | 15.9 | 140 | 11.7 | 11.7 | 21 | 2.42 | 1.27 | 3.46 | 0.59 | 0.67 | 1.07 | 0.47 | 1.95 | 0.41 | 2.95 | 0.50 | 0.06 | 0.03 | 0.67 | 1.67 | 1.10 | 0.10 |
(a) Rales are per 1,000 home population, figures in italics are based upon fewer than 20 births, deaths or notifications as a warning that the smallness of the experiences may a ffect their significance.
(b) Including Inner and Middle Temple.