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 Lewisham]
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Boroughs | Births. | Per 1000 Persons Living. Deaths from | Deaths under 1 year to 1000 Births | |||||||||||
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All Causes | Principal Epidemic Diseases | Small-Pox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Whooping-Cough | Typhus | Enteric Fever | Pyrexia† (Origin uncertain) | Diarrhœa | Phthisis | |||
Cnty of L'nd'n West. | 25.2 | 13.8 | 1.35 | - | 0.31 | 0.11 | 0.15 | 0.20 | 1 - | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.53 | 1.32 | 113 |
Padding to n | 22.1 | 12.4 | 0.87 | - | 0.23 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.07 | - | 0.03 | - | 0.34 | 1.01 | 103 |
Kensington. | 19.2 | 12.9 | 0.92 | - | 0.17 | 0.05 | 0.15 | 0.04 | - | 0.03 | - | 0.48 | 0.98 | 119 |
Hainmersmith | 25.4 | 14.0 | 1.09 | - | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.15 | - | 0.04 | - | 0.59 | 1.26 | 120 |
Fulbain | 27.0 | 12.4 | 1.59 | - | 0.41 | 0.10 | 0.18 | 0.19 | - | 0.06 | - | 0.65 | 1.14 | 116 |
Chelsea | 20.4 | 14.5 | 1.18 | - | 0.16 | 0.10 | 0.16 | 0.22 | - | 00.7 | - | 0.47 | 1.27 | 107 |
Ctyof Wstnistr | 16.7 | 12.8 | 0.58 | - | 0.13 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.05 | - | 0.03 | - | 0.24 | 1.23 | 102 |
North. | ||||||||||||||
St. Marylebone | 20.6 | 14.2 | 0.85 | - | 0.19 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.10 | - | 0.05 | - | 0.30 | 1.16 | 101 |
llampstead | 14.9 | 8.5 | 0.40 | - | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.05 | - | 0.05 | - | 0.13 | 0.78 | 69 |
St. Pan eras | 14.7 | 1.06 | - | 0.19 | 0.08 | 0.09 | 0.29 | - | 0.04 | - | 0.37 | 1.51 | 107 | |
Islington | 24.7 | 13.2 | 1.01 | - | 0.23 | 0.09 | 0.16 | 0.16 | - | 0.05 | - | 0.32 | 1.24 | 102 |
Stoke Nwingtn | 19.7 | 12.3 | 0.82 | - | 0.18 | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.11 | - | 0.07 | - | 0.35 | 1.07 | 92 |
Hackney | 23.3 | 13.2 | 1.52 | - | 0.31 | 0.13 | 0.19 | 0.18 | - | 0.03 | - | 0.68 | 1.22 | 115 |
Central. | ||||||||||||||
Holborn | 19.6 | 16. 4 | 1.07 | - | 0.20 | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.14 | - | 0.09 | - | 0.42 | 2.11 | 113 |
Finsbury | 31.1 | 18.6 | 2.09 | - | 0 .45 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.26 | - | 0.12 | - | 0.97 | 2.15 | 133 |
City of London | 14.9 | 17.07 | 0.40 | - | 0.15 | - | 0.10 | 0.05 | - | - | - | 1.79 | 92 | |
East. | ||||||||||||||
Slioreditch | 32.0 | 17.4 | 2.09 | - | 0.44 | 0.25 | 0.11 | 0.20 | - | 0.09 | - | 1.00 | 2.00 | 139 |
Hethnal Green | 32.0 | 17.1 | 2.48 | - | 0.78 | 0.30 | 0.21 | 0 .32 | - | 0.10 | - | 0.77 | 1.61 | 132 |
Stepney | 32.1 | 16.4 | 2.53 | - | 0.84 | 0.17 | 0.24 | 0.41 | - | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.83 | 1.56 | 130 |
Poplar | 31 .5 | 15.9 | 2.26 | - | 0.47 | 0.21 | 0.19 | 0.42 | - | 0.08 | 0.89 | 1.34 | 123 | |
South. | ||||||||||||||
South wark | 29 .2 | 16.3 | 1.76 | - | 0.36 | 0 .1 1 | 0.15 | 0.23 | - | 0.03 | - | 0.88 | 1.88 | 131 |
Bermondsey | 32.5 | 18.8 | 2.30 | - | 0.82 | 0.19 | 0.18 | 0.17 | - | 0.09 | 0.01 | 0.84 | 1.89 | 144 |
Lambeth | 13.3 | 1.18 | - | 0.31 | 0.13 | 0 .14 | 0.15 | - | 0.02 | - | 0.43 | 1.45 | 104 | |
Battersea | 24.9 | 12.2 | 1.19 | - | 0.26 | 0.18 | 0.12 | 0.21 | - | 0.03 | - | 0.44 | 1.19 | 106 |
Wandsworth | 25.2 | 11.6 | 0.93 | - | 0.15 | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0.21 | - | 0.02 | - | 3.35 | 3.96 | 97 |
Camberwell | 24.2 | 12.7 | 1.06 | - | 0.19 | 0.08 | 0.14 | 0.19 | - | 0.02 | - | 0.44 | 1.12 | 104 |
Deptford | 26.4 | 13.8 | 1.32 | - | 0.28 | 0.08 | 0.20 | - | 0.07 | - | 0.63 | 1.16 | 122 | |
Greenwich | 23 .5 | 12. 6 | 1.25 | - | 0.14 | 0.05 | 0.16 | 0.28 | - | 0.08 | - | 0.54 | 1 10 | 120 |
Lewisham | 11.0 | 1.14 | - | 0.29 | 0.07 | 0.28 | 0.19 | - | 0.03 | - | 3.28 | 3.85 | 87 | |
Woolwich | 23.8 | 11. 4 | 0.92 | - | 0. 07 | 0.07 | 0.16 | 0.24 | - | 0. 02 | - | 3.36 | 1.20 | 94 |
In this Table 0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0*005; where no
death occurred, — is inserted, t Called Simple Continued Fever previous to 1901.