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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* Table 13.
Death.rates
Boroughs. | Death.rates per 1000 Living. | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All Causes. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria | Enteric Fever | Phthisis | ||||||
Before Distribution | After Distribution | Before Distribution | After Distribution | Before Distribution | After Distribution | Before Distribution | After Distribution | Before Distribution | After Distribution | |
County of London | 14.0 | 13.8 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 1.30 | 1.32 |
West. | ||||||||||
Paddington | 13.6 | 1. 4 | —- | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0 .10 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.98 | 1.01 |
Kensington | 14.8 | 12.9 | —- | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.15 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 1.62 | 0.98 |
Hammersmith | 13.9 | 14.0 | —- | 0.09 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 1.16 | 1.26 |
Fulham | 11.5 | 12.4 | 0.32 | 0.10 | 0.54 | 0.18 | 0.11 | 0.06 | 1.06 | 1.14 |
Chelsea | 21.7 | 14.5 | — | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.16 | 0 .05 | 0.07 | 2.49 | 1.27 |
City of Westm'r | 14.1 | 12.6 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.67 | 1.23 |
North. | ||||||||||
St. Maryleboue | 13.2 | 14.2 | 0.01 | 0.10 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.67 | 1.16 |
Hampstead | 10.6 | 8.5 | 0.53 | 0.07 | 0.48 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 1. 57 | 0.78 |
St. Pancras | 15.2 | 14.7 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 1.56 | 1.51 |
Islington | 12.8 | 13.2 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.16 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 1.45 | 1.24 |
Stoke Nevvington | 9.0 | 12.3 | — | 0.09 | — | 0.02 | — | 0.07 | 0.56 | 1.07 |
Hackney | 13.6 | 13.2 | 0.21 | 0.13 | 0.31 | 0 19 | 0.07 | 0.03 | 1.31 | 1.22 |
Central | ||||||||||
Holborn | 19.2 | 16.4 | — | 0.13 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 1.37 | 2 .11 |
Finsbury | 9.7 | 18.6 | — | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.16 | 0.03 | 0.12 | 0.89 | 215 |
City of London | 49.8 | 17.7 | 0.05 | — | 0.36 | 0.10 | 0.41 | — | 2.66 | 1.79 |
East. | ||||||||||
Shoreditch | 16.4 | 17.4 | 0.02 | 0.25 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.02 | 0.09 | 2.11 | 2.00 |
Bethnal Green | 16 .9 | 17.1 | — | 0.30 | 0.07 | 0.21 | 0.04 | 0.10 | 1.83 | 1.61 |
Stepney | 17.6 | 16 .4 | 0.01 | 0.17 | 0.14 | 0.24 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 1.37 | 1.56 |
Poplar | 16.2 | 15.9 | 0.05 | 0.21 | 0.06 | 0.19 | 0.07 | 008 | 1.55 | 1.34 |
South. | ||||||||||
South wark | 13.9 | 16.3 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.15 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.95 | 1.88 |
Bermondsey | 15.1 | 18.8 | 0.02 | 0.19 | 0.02 | 0.18 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 1.69 | 1.89 |
Lambeth | 14.4 | 13.3 | 0.11 | 0.13 | 0.17 | 0.14 | 0.05 | 0.02 | 1.41 | 1.45 |
Battersea | 12.1 | 12.2 | 0.02 | 0.13 | 0 02 | 0 12 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 1.10 | 1.19 |
Wandsworth | 11.0 | 11.6 | 0.22 | 0.07 | 0.20 | 013 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.98 | 0.96 |
Camber well | 13 .8 | 12.7 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.02 | 0 .14 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 1.64 | 1.12 |
Deptford | 10 .5 | 13.8 | 0.48 | 0.06 | 0. 49 | 0.08 | 0.13 | 0.07 | 0.70 | 1.16 |
Greenwich | 10.5 | 12.6 | 0.41 | 0.05 | 0. 55 | 0.16 | 014 | 0.08 | 1.67 | 1.10 |
Lewisham | 11.7 | 11.0 | 0.47 | 0.07 | 0.52 | 0.28 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.83 | 0 .85 |
Woolwich | 10.5 | 11.4 | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.04 | 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 1.10 | 1.20 |
The deaths ' before Distribution ' are those actually registered in the several Boroughs without
any coirection whatever.