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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
Hammersmith 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith, Metropolitan Borough of]
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The following table of Deaths from Infectious Diseases is compiled from the Registrar General's Report.
| Boroughs. | Populatii n estimated to the middle of 1913 † | Births. | All causes. | Enteric Fever. | Small-pox. | Deaths from | Deaths under 1 year of Age. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping-cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) | Pulmonary Tuberculosis | |||||||
| COUNTY OF LONDON | 4,518.191 | 112,637 | 65.030 | 114 | - | i.57o | 188 | 800 | 43i | 3.098 | 5,98i | 11,869 |
| Paddintjton | 142,210 | 3.055 | 1.941 | 6 | _ | 55 | 7 | 37 | 12 | 71 | 157 | 305 |
| Kensington | 171,284 | 3.357 | 2.377 | 4 | — | 84 | 3 | 29 | 6 | 80 | 188 | 375 |
| Hammersmith | 123,7-15 | 3,043 | 1.754 | — | — | 47 | 7 | 47 | 12 | 64 | 151 | 314 |
| Fulham | 157.117 | 4,302 | 1,992 | 8 | — | 50 | 3 | 27 | 14 | 98 | 209 | 414 |
| Chelsea | 64,598 | 1,257 | 911 | 1 | — | 18 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 81 | 113 |
| City of W'stmnstr | 154,810 | 2.227 | 1,992 | 3 | — | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 52 | 206 | 213 |
| St. Marylebone | 114.532 | 2,221 | 1,633 | 5 | _ | 33 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 37 | 158 | 202 |
| Hampstead | 86,346 | 1,326 | 93« | 1 | — | 21 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 18 | 50 | 97 |
| St. Pancras | 214 .330 | 5.512 | 3,32i | 6 | — | 41 | 6 | 31 | 16 | 114 | 327 | 508 |
| Islington | 325.585 | 8.357 | 5.009 | 5 | — | 107 | 17 | 61 | 34 | 221 | 441 | 894 |
| Stoke Newington | 5o.5i8 | 1.144 | 698 | 2 | — | 11 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 48 | 94 |
| Hackney | 223,353 | 5,522 | 3,037 | 4 | — | 68 | 11 | 23 | 11 | Mi | 261 | 549 |
| Holborr | 46,949 | 798 | 698 | _ | _ | 10 | — | 6 | 4 | 15 | 89 | 83 |
| Finsbury | 84,679 | 2,547 | 1,576 | — | — | 30 | 4 | 3» | 9 | 97 | 173 | 352 |
| City of London | 17.916 | 167 | 276 | 2 | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 16 | |
| Shoreditch | 109,654 | 3,513 | 2,068 | 1 | — | 52 | 3 | 29 | 14 | 207 | 200 | 546 |
| Bethnai Green | 127.824 | 3.998 | 2,006 | 4 | — | 62 | 3 | 34 | 10 | 151 | 201 | 470 |
| Stepney | 275.300 | 8.187 | 4172 | ii | — | <j5 | 8 | 26 | 22 | 287 | 471 | 916 |
| Poplar | 160,913 | 5,230 | 2,668 | 5 | — | 69 | 12 | 38 | 34 | 159 | 239 | 586 |
| Southwark | 188,487 | 5.936 | 3.343 | 6 | _ | 105 | 11 | 38 | 19 | 182 | 354 | 682 |
| Bermondsey | 124.739 | 3.896 | 2,266 | 3 | — | 90 | 4 | 47 | 17 | '65 | 204 | 513 |
| Lambeth | 297.139 | 7,233 | 4.3m | 8 | — | 99 | M | 47 | 37 | 202 | 389 | 736 |
| Battersea | 167.464 | 4.239 | 2,361 | 6 | — | 93 | 7 | 28 | 20 | 125 | 192 | 469 |
| Wandsworth | 330.395 | 6.840 | 3.550 | 5 | — | 116 | 11 | 23 | 16 | 148 | 288 | 603 |
| Camberwell | 261.805 | 6,671 | 3 653 | 5 | — | 68 | 13 | 54 | 18 | 179 | 306 | 708 |
| Deptford | 109,280 | 3.'03 | 1.704 | 2 | — | 50 | 3 | 46 | 17 | 93 | '44 | 347 |
| Greenwich | 96,015 | 2,54i | 1.385 | 2 | — | 40 | 2 | 24 | 12 | 52 | 114 | 262 |
| Lewisham | 168,822 | 3,522 | 1,814 | 8 | — | 25 | 5 | 23 | 35 | 50 | 127 | 273 |
| Woolwich | 122,382 | 2,893 | 1,573 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 17 | 48 | 186 | 229 | |
† Based on the results of the Censuses of 1901 and 1911.