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 —
Metropolitan Boroughs | Estimated home population mid 1963 | Live birth rate | Death rate Cat! causes) | Infant mortality (per 1,000 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 (excluding tuberculosis] | Violence | Dysentery | Food poisoning | Measles | Pneumonia | Poliomyelitis | Scarlet fever | Whooping cough | Tuberculosis | |||||||||
Crude | Adjusted | Crude | Adjusted | ||||||||||||||||||||
Paralytic | Nonparalytic | Pulmonary | Non. pulmonary | ||||||||||||||||||||
Chelsea | 48,050 | 12.9 | 9.4 | 16.5 | 11.9 | 18 | 2.85 | 216 | 5 41 | 0.94 | 1.44 | 1.27 | 0.67 | 1.19 | 0 04 | 7.33 | - | - | 0.50 | 0.46 | |||
Fulham | 109,700 | 191 | 17.0 | 12.5 | 12.8 | 22 | 2.44 | 1 .29 | 3.71 | 0.92 | 1.00 | 116 | 0.40 | 1.42 | 0.15 | 9.30 | - | - | 0.19 | 114 | 0.53 | ||
Hammersmith | 107,660 | 22.9 | 19.7 | 12.1 | 13 .6 | 20 | 2.68 | 1 .24 | 3.32 | 0 62 | 0.91 | 1.11 | 0.66 | 0.45 | 0.12 | 9.33 | 0.34 | - | - | 0.71 | 0.55 | ||
Kensington | 172,170 | 19.3 | 11.2 | 10.2 | 12.0 | 25 | 211 | 1.02 | 2.76 | 0.67 | 0.61 | 0.86 | 0.77 | 0.21 | 018 | 5.48 | - | 0.46 | 0.83 | ||||
Hampstead | 97,980 | 17.8 | 11.4 | 10.1 | 11.2 | 17 | 1.94 | 1 .05 | 3.54 | 0.54 | 0.79 | 0.52 | 0.56 | 0.55 | 0.06 | 7.52 | - | - | 0.37 | 0.55 | |||
Paddington | 113,960 | 22.8 | 16 6 | 11.4 | 13.7 | 18 | 2.46 | 1.11 | 3.19 | 0.55 | 0.68 | 1.00 | 0.84 | 0.41 | 5.81 | - | - | 0.25 | 0.67 | 1.18 | |||
St. Marylebone | 67,320 | 11.4 | 8.7 | 16.5 | 12.2 | 18 | 3.06 | 2.12 | 6.30 | 0.65 | 0.89 | 117 | 0.68 | 0.18 | 4.62 | - | - | 0.55 | |||||
St. Pancras | 123,610 | 19.6 | 15.9 | 12.0 | 13.2 | 25 | 2.70 | 116 | 3.29 | 0.46 | 1.23 | 0.83 | 0.66 | 1.76 | 0.32 | 7.77 | - | - | 0.22 | 0.40 | 0.94 | ||
Westminster, City of | 86,550 | 12.5 | 10.4 | 12.2 | 12.2 | 23 | 2.78 | 1.31 | 3.30 | 0.81 | 0.79 | 0.62 | 1.04 | 0.85 | 0.24 | 5.45 | - | - | 0.32 | 0.65 | |||
Finsbury | 32,230 | 17.3 | 15.2 | 12.1 | 13.9 | 11 | 2.79 | 0.90 | 3.29 | 0.65 | 1.21 | 1.09 | 0.71 | 9.87 | 0.93 | 12.35 | 1.46 | - | - | 1.33 | 1.15 | 0.12 | |
Holborn | 20,700 | 111 | 7.3 | 12.2 | 13.4 | 52 | 2.80 | 3.14 | 1.06 | 0.10 | 6.28 | - | - | 1.06 | 0.05 | ||||||||
Islington | 227,410 | 25.2 | 20.7 | 11.7 | 13.1 | 19 | 2.41 | 1.06 | 316 | 0.88 | 1.01 | 1.18 | 0.63 | 3.74 | 0.40 | 9.72 | 0.14 | - | - | 0.29 | 0.79 | 1.00 | |
Hackney | 163,170 | 24.4 | 22.0 | 12.4 | 14.0 | 26 | 2.65 | 1.15 | 3.52 | 1.07 | 0.64 | 1 .40 | 0.43 | 2.92 | 0.09 | 8.49 | 0.09 | - | - | 0.34 | 1.67 | 0.54 | 0.06 |
Shoreditch | 38,330 | 15.8 | 15. 5 | 13.5 | 13.8 | 33 | 2.17 | 1.23 | 3.84 | 0.73 | 1.85 | 1.72 | 0.63 | 0.76 | 0.10 | 16.80 | - | - | 0.55 | 0.34 | |||
Stoke Newington | 52,830 | 25.5 | 21.9 | 10.9 | 13.5 | 16 | 2.14 | 1.00 | 3.56 | 0.66 | 0.78 | 1.29 | 0.38 | 2.65 | 0.17 | 7.50 | - | - | 0.42 | 1.17 | 0.51 | ||
Bethnal Green | 46,090 | 17.8 | 16.7 | 12.2 | 13.3 | 24 | 2.45 | 1.02 | 3.43 | 0.72 | 1.04 | 1.52 | 0.52 | 0.59 | 0.28 | 5.16 | - | - | 2.13 | 0.69 | |||
City of London(b) | 4,580 | 9.2 | 7.5 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
Poplar | 67,830 | 19.7 | 18.7 | 11.1 | 13.5 | 23 | 2.40 | 1 .27 | 2.73 | 0.62 | 0.84 | 1.31 | 0.55 | 0.93 | 0.41 | 11 .75 | 1 .08 | - | 0.68 | 0.65 | 0.63 | ||
Stepney | 89,930 | 20.2 | 18.4 | 13.5 | 15.4 | 25 | 2.67 | 1.25 | 3.79 | 0.66 | 1 .09 | 1.87 | 0.63 | 0.44 | 0.09 | 11.25 | 1.41 | - | - | 0.34 | 1.21 | ||
Deptford | 68,450 | 23.6 | 21.9 | 11.2 | 12.1 | 25 | 2.29 | 0.85 | 3.52 | 0.42 | 0.98 | 1 .29 | 0.38 | 6.27 | 0.04 | 11 .37 | 0.48 | - | - | 0.39 | 1.05 | _1.23 | 0.06 |
Greenwich | 83,760 | 16.8 | 16.1 | 11.3 | 12.1 | 14 | 2.28 | 0.96 | 3.65 | 0.62 | 0.76 | 0.98 | 0.49 | 3.84 | 0.07 | 11.04 | - | - | 0.35 | 0.42 | 0.32 | ||
Woolwich | 148,690 | 16.2 | 17.5 | 12.0 | 13. 0 | 26 | 2.29 | 1.14 | 3.91 | 0.69 | 0.96 | 1.11 | 0 .44 | 0.44 | 0.02 | 11.10 | 0.48 | - | - | 0.58 | 0.54 | 0.27 | |
Camberwell | 174,220 | 21.3 | 19 .6 | 12.6 | 13.6 | 20 | 2.34 | 1 .41 | 3.95 | 0.63 | 0.98 | 1 .29 | 0.47 | 1 .23 | 0 .09 | 11.03 | 0.18 | - | - | 0.38 | 0.99 | 0.67 | 0.04 |
Lewisham | 222,730 | 17.9 | 17.4 | 11.8 | 11.4 | 23 | 2.20 | 1.55 | 3.89 | 0.51 | 0.82 | 0.98 | 0.43 | 1.67 | 0.08 | 10.77 | 0.19 | - | - | 0.34 | 0.84 | 0.48 | |
Bermondsey | 50,540 | 17.3 | 17.0 | 12.7 | 14.1 | 16 | 2.39 | 1.19 | 3.92 | 0.83 | 1 .39 | 0.93 | 0.59 | 1.39 | 0.28 | 13.43 | 0.44 | - | - | 0.81 | 0.51 | 0.55 | |
Lambeth | 223,120 | 24.9 | 21.9 | 12.2 | 13.7 | 25 | 2.45 | 1.17 | 3.48 | 0.57 | 1.09 | 1 .28 | 0.60 | 0 .61 | 0.08 | 9.54 | 0.22 | - | 0.34 | 0.74 | 0.41 | 0.07 | |
Southwark | 85,870 | 18.3 | 17.0 | 13.8 | 13.4 | 19 | 2.18 | 1.35 | 4.68 | 0.66 | 1.20 | 1 .62 | 0.49 | 4.74 | 0.20 | 10.61 | 1.02 | - | - | 0.92 | 0.84 | 0.62 | 0.12 |
Battersea | 102,940 | 23.1 | 21.0 | 12.5 | 12.8 | 20 | 2.32 | 1.59 | 3.63 | 0.63 | 0.92 | 1.27 | 0.49 | 0.29 | 0.11 | 6.83 | 0.28 | - | - | 1.02 | 0.40 | 0.05 | |
Wandsworth | 348,450 | 18.3 | 17.6 | 15.0 | 11.9 | 20 | 2.61 | 1 .56 | 5.21 | 0.82 | 1 .19 | 1.28 | 0.56 | 0.71 | 0.10 | 9.84 | 0.40 | - | - | 0.98 | 0.40 | ||
London, 1963 | 3,178,870 | 20.0 | 17.2 | 12.5 | 13.1 | 22 | 2.44 | 1.27 | 3.80 | 0.69 | 0.97 | 1.16 | 0.57 | 1.55 | 0.17 | 9.19 | 0.30 | 0.32 | 0.82 | 0.63 | 0.08 | ||
3,185,770 | 19 .6 | 17.6 | 12.0 | 11.7 | 21 | 2.44 | 1.22 | 3.75 | 0.60 | 0.83 | 1.07 | 0.56 | 0.88 | 0.21 | 2.99 | 0.26 | 0.27 | 0.19 | 0.66 | 0.08 |
(а) Rates are per 1,000 home population, figures in italics are based upon fewer than 20 births, deaths or notifications.
(b) Including Inner and Middle Temple.