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 Bethnal Green, Parish of St. Matthew ]
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| Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population middle of 1897. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1,000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping-Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1,000 births. | ||
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| Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
| LONDON | 4,463,109 | 133,618 | 78,971 | 30 0 | 17.7 | 2.56 | 11,453 | 10 | 1,927 | 778 | 2,240 | 1,837 | 1 | 557 | 8 | 4,089 | 7,629 | 158 |
| Paddington | 126,161 | 3,018 | 1,814 | 24.3 | 14.4 | 1.94 | 243 | ... | 2 | 21 | 64 | 44 | ... | 9 | 1 | 102 | 142 | 149 |
| Kensington | 171,427 | 3,683 | 2,077 | 21.5 | 15.7 | 1.78 | 304 | ... | 32 | 30 | 81 | 19 | ... | 21 | 1 | 120 | 247 | 166 |
| Hammersmith | 105,959 | 3,139 | 1,760 | 29.7 | 16.7 | 1.99 | 211 | ... | 5 | 11 | 30 | 28 | ... | 8 | 1 | 128 | 146 | 171 |
| Fulham | 120,040 | 4,106 | 2,034 | 34.3 | 17.0 | 3.04 | 362 | ... | 51 | 26 | 63 | 61 | ... | 12 | 1 | 148 | 184 | 162 |
| Chelsea | 90,692 | 2,549 | 1,713 | 26.4 | 17.8 | 2.55 | 244 | ... | 18 | 17 | 54 | 41 | ... | 14 | ... | 100 | 175 | 161 |
| St.GeorgeHanoverSq | 80,330 | 1,369 | 1,059 | 17.1 | 13.2 | 1.10 | 89 | ... | 17 | 7 | 17 | 13 | ... | 10 | ... | 25 | 93 | 133 |
| Westminster | 53,027 | 1,237 | 1,004 | 23.4 | 19.0 | 2.47 | 131 | ... | 20 | 13 | 23 | 16 | ... | 6 | ... | 47 | 143 | 106 |
| St JamesWestmnstr. | 22,570 | 459 | 393 | 20.4 | 17.5 | 1.87 | 42 | ... | 13 | 8 | 3 | 6 | ... | 3 | ... | 9 | 51 | 103 |
| Marylebone | 140,808 | 4,135 | 2,572 | 29.5 | 18.3 | 1.61 | 227 | ... | 9 | 9 | 46 | 41 | ... | 14 | ... | 108 | 246 | 136 |
| Hampstead | 77,275 | 1,479 | 911 | 19.2 | 11.8 | 1.16 | 90 | ... | 9 | 6 | 17 | 25 | ... | 5 | ... | 28 | 57 | 127 |
| St. Pancras | 242,255 | 7,017 | 4,518 | 29. 0 | 18.7 | 2.47 | 597 | 1 | 87 | 24 | 114 | 124 | ... | 38 | ... | 209 | 486 | 168 |
| Islington | 341,134 | 9,845 | 5,387 | 28.9 | 15.8 | 1.91 | 653 | 1 | 99 | 61 | 129 | 134 | ... | 45 | ... | 184 | 491 | 130 |
| Stoke Newington. | 34,130 | 835 | 488 | 24.5 | 14.3 | 2.12 | 72 | ... | 7 | 2 | 19 | 15 | ... | 10 | ... | 19 | 40 | 121 |
| Hackney | 216,698 | 6,312 | 3,573 | 29.2 | 16.5 | 2.90 | 626 | ... | 127 | 37 | 134 | 97 | ... | 35 | ... | 190 | 310 | 147 |
| St. Giles | 37,840 | 981 | 696 | 26.0 | 18.4 | 1.63 | 61 | ... | 9 | 7 | 7 | 18 | ... | 6 | ... | 14 | 113 | 146 |
| St Martin-in-Fields | 12,711 | 109 | 206 | 13.3 | 16.3 | 1.19 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | ... | 1 | ... | 2 | 33 | 178 |
| Strand | 23,552 | 570 | 501 | 24.3 | 21.3 | 2.06 | 48 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 6 | ... | 4 | ... | 18 | 79 | 161 |
| Holborn | 30,493 | 781 | 703 | 25.7 | 23.1 | 2.79 | 85 | ... | 6 | 14 | 16 | 19 | ... | 5 | ... | 35 | 84 | 184 |