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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

St Pancras 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras]

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Table: Deaths from Diphtheria in the Metropolitan Sanitary Areas, &c.— contd.

Deaths from Diphtheria in the Metropolitan Sanitary Areas, &c.— contd.

Sanitary Areas.Enumerated Population, 1891.Deaths.Mean Annual Mortality per 1000 Population.
At all agesUnder 15 years.Total 1887 to 1895.Annual Mean 1887 to 1895.At all ages.Under 15 years.
East Districts705,114255,603,729414.30.591.62
Shoreditch124,00943,83056562.80.511.43
Bethnal Green129,13248,89484593.90.731.92
Whitechapel74,46224,81839343.70.591.76
St. George's - in -the - East.45,79516,38231835.30.772.15
Limehouse57,37620,62031234.70.601.68
Mile End Old Town107,59238,45352958.80.551.50
Poplar166,74862,60376785.20.511.37
South Districts1,524,472529,5795,872652.40.431.23
St. Saviour27,1778,82110511.70.431.33
St. George - the -Martyr, South-wark.59,71220,85522424.90.421.19
Newington115,80440,20742046.70.431.16
St. Olave12,7234,369333.70.290.85
Bermondsey84,68231,53228331.40.370.99
Rotherhithe39,25515,01014616.20.411.07
Lambeth275,20389,3871,089121.00.441.36
Battersea150,55857,3441,122124.70.401.16
Wandsworth156,91249,874
Camberwell235.34484,43587697.30.411.15
Greenwich165,41360,60370978.80.451.30
Lewisham (excluding Penge).72,27223,68718720.80.290.88
Woolwich40,84813,021596.60.160.50
Plumstead and52,43630,43423827.60.521.21
Lee36,103849.30.26

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Comparing the Sanitary Districts singly in the several groups, according
to the column per 1,000 of population under 15 years, the death-rates in
every one of the Districts in the East Groups is above the average of London,
the highest being St. George's-in-the-East and Bethnal Green, and the lowest