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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
Bethnal Green 1897
[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. | Diarrhœa. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1,000 births. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
| Clerkenwell | 66,162 | 2,092 | 1,459 | 31.7 | 22.1 | 3.61 | 238 | 1 | 49 | 14 | 48 | 49 | ... | 11 | ... | 66 | 155 | 184 |
| St. Luke | 41,279 | 1,860 | 1,056 | 45.2 | 25.7 | 3.82 | 157 | ... | 40 | 13 | 21 | 28 | ... | 4 | ... | 51 | 128 | 149 |
| London City | 30,222 | 478 | 642 | 15.9 | 21.3 | 1.66 | 50 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 10 | ... | 10 | ... | 5 | 57 | 130 |
| Shoreditch | 121,883 | 4,314 | 2,627 | 35.5 | 21.6 | 4.07 | 496 | 1 | 116 | 29 | 78 | 63 | ... | 20 | ... | 189 | 247 | 183 |
| Bethnal Green | 129,098 | 4,818 | 2,761 | 37.4 | 21.4 | 3.41 | 439 | ... | 114 | 25 | 84 | 57 | ... | 17 | 1 | 140 | 255 | 171 |
| Whitechapel | 79,724 | 3,150 | 1,623 | 39.6 | 20.4 | 2.16 | 171 | ... | 45 | 15 | 34 | 16 | ... | 8 | ... | 53 | 200 | 148 |
| St. George-in-East | 47,917 | 2,029 | 1,262 | 42.5 | 26.4 | 4.27 | 204 | ... | 68 | 14 | 28 | 24 | ... | 10 | ... | 60 | 132 | 197 |
| Limehouse | 58,508 | 1,997 | 1,462 | 34.2 | 25.1 | 3.54 | 206 | ... | 63 | 12 | 29 | 37 | ... | 4 | ... | 61 | 149 | 193 |
| Mile End Old Town | 111,883 | 4,257 | 2,085 | 38.2 | 18.7 | 2.97 | 330 | ... | 77 | 12 | 62 | 58 | ... | 23 | ... | 98 | 156 | 149 |
| Poplar | 169,811 | 5,849 | 3,353 | 34.5 | 19.8 | 3.07 | 519 | ... | 83 | 28 | 120 | 83 | ... | 30 | ... | 175 | 319 | 170 |
| St. Saviour Southw'k | 24,919 | 769 | 611 | 30.9 | 24.6 | 3.66 | 91 | ... | 32 | 7 | 12 | 12 | ... | 2 | ... | 26 | 80 | 195 |
| St. George Southw'k | 60,388 | 2,114 | 1,426 | 35.1 | 23.7 | 4.35 | 262 | 1 | 67 | 14 | 28 | 32 | ... | 10 | 1 | 109 | 171 | 189 |
| Newington | 122,191 | 4,248 | 2,588 | 34.9 | 21.2 | 3.59 | 439 | ... | 85 | 33 | 65 | 62 | ... | 9 | ... | 165 | 269 | |
| St. Olave Southw'k | 11,480 | 434 | 253 | 37.9 | 22.1 | 2.96 | 34 | ... | 6 | 2 | 2 | 8 | ... | 1 | ... | 15 | 33 | 154 |
| Bermondsey | 85,629 | 3,176 | 1,883 | 37.2 | 22.1 | 4.35 | 371 | ... | 76 | 34 | 62 | 62 | ... | 13 | ... | 124 | 174 | 190 |
| Rotherhitne | 40,643 | 1,258 | 766 | 31.0 | 18.9 | 3.26 | 132 | ... | 21 | 22 | 21 | 17 | ... | 2 | ... | 49 | 64 | 174 |
| Lambeth | 300,048 | 9,388 | 5,247 | 31.4 | 17.5 | 2.65 | 791 | ... | 140 | 42 | 144 | 144 | ... | 26 | ... | 295 | 500 | 151 |
| Battersea | 168,877 | 5,266 | 2,734 | 31.3 | 16.2 | 2.79 | 470 | ... | 79 | 47 | 106 | 79 | ... | 19 | ... | 140 | 251 | 152 |
| Wandsworth | 195,612 | 5,042 | 2,606 | 25.8 | 13.4 | 1.91 | 370 | ... | 27 | 29 | 111 | 42 | ... | 16 | 1 | 144 | 222 | 135 |
| Camberwell | 257,575 | 7,483 | 4,276 | 29.1 | 16.6 | 2.91 | 750 | 5 | 141 | 32 | 170 | 111 | ... | 31 | ... | 260 | 386 | 159 |
| Greenwich | 178,367 | 5,563 | 3,058 | 31.3 | 17.2 | 2.27 | 405 | 2 | 35 | 32 | 70 | 57 | ... | 29 | ... | 180 | 263 | 157 |
| Lee | 39,215 | 881 | 516 | 22.5 | 13.2 | 1.43 | 56 | ... | 6 | 3 | 17 | 5 | ... | 3 | ... | 22 | 43 | 135 |
| Lewisham | 86,152 | 2,186 | 1,099 | 25.4 | 12.8 | 1.71 | 147 | ... | 17 | 9 | 36 | 19 | ... | 7 | ... | 59 | 81 | 129 |
| Woolwich | 41,409 | 1,307 | 735 | 31.7 | 17.8 | 2.54 | 105 | ... | 2 | 8 | 33 | 8 | ... | 4 | ... | 50 | 79 | 158 |
| Plumstead | 61,057 | 1,975 | 834 | 32.4 | 13.7 | 1.97 | 120 | ... | 3 | 6 | 24 | 22 | ... | 3 | 1 | 61 | 95 | 116 |