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 Bethnal Green]
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A nalysis of the V ital and M ortal S tatistics—
Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population middle of 1898. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1,000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping-cough. | Typhus. I | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1,000 Births. | ||
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Births | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
Clerkenwell | 66,120 | 2,072 | 1,432 | 31.4 | 21.7 | 3.75 | 246 | .. | 61 | 13 | 36 | 35 | .. | 7 | .. | 94 | 155 | 196 |
St. Luke | 41,076 | 1,853 | 1,054 | 45.2 | 25.7 | 4.04 | 165 | .. | 37 | 15 | 24 | 24 | .. | 2 | .. | 63 | 108 | 150 |
London City | 29,088 | 469 | 555 | 16.2 | 19 .1 | 117 | 34 | .. | 8 | 10 | 2 | .. | 6 | 1 | 5 | 54 | 128 | |
Shoreditch | 121,485 | 4,266 | 2,707 | 35.2 | 22.3 | 3.95 | 480 | .. | 108 | 21 | 44 | 98 | .. | 17 | .. | 192 | 245 | 196 |
Bethnal Green | 129,027 | 4,779 | 2,872 | 37.1 | 22.3 | 3.90 | 503 | .. | 152 | 11 | 62 | 119 | .. | 17 | .. | 142 | 279 | 184 |
Whitechapel | 80,559 | 3,123 | 1,622 | 38.9 | 20.2 | 2.10 | 169 | .. | 45 | 8 | 20 | 24 | .. | 9 | .. | 63 | 209 | 144 |
St. George-in-the-East | 48,241 | 2,083 | 1,192 | 43.3 | 24.8 | 3.31 | 159 | .. | 33 | 6 | 14 | 39 | .. | 7 | .. | 60 | 130 | |
Limehouse | 58,661 | 1,912 | 1,390 | 32.7 | 23.8 | 4.26 | 249 | .. | 57 | 5 | 26 | 62 | .. | 8 | 1 | 90 | 140 | 208 |
Mile End Old Town | 112,528 | 4,294 | 2,229 | 38.3 | 19.9 | 3.51 | 393 | .. | 93 | 8 | 63 | 74 | .. | 13 | .. | 142 | 164 | 155 |
Poplar | 170,220 | 5,907 | 3,605 | 34.8 | 21. 2 | 3.72 | 629 | .. | 130 | 22 | 89 | 120 | .. | 10 | 1 | 237 | 311 | 191 |
St. Saviour Southwark | 24,562 | 739 | 577 | 30. 2 | 23. 6 | 3.09 | 76 | .. | 17 | 1 | 15 | 14 | .. | 4 | .. | 25 | 75 | 211 |
St. George Southwark | 60,461 | 2,138 | 1,470 | 35.5 | 24.4 | 3.99 | 241 | .. | 43 | 20 | 36 | 34 | .. | 9 | .. | 99 | 192 | 188 |
Newington | 123,183 | 4,165 | 2,520 | 33.9 | 20 .5 | 3.17 | 388 | .. | 55 | 24 | 72 | 45 | .. | 10 | .. | 182 | 298 | 173 |
St. Olave, Southwark | 11,288 | 357 | 232 | 31.7 | 20.6 | 2.31 | 26 | .. | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | .. | 1 | .. | 5 | 25 | 132 |
Bermondsey | 85,738 | 3,090 | 1,771 | 36.1 | 20.7 | 3. 02 | 258 | .. | 59 | 19 | 44 | 47 | .. | 9 | .. | 80 | 184 | |
Rotherhite | 40,840 | 1,289 | 773 | 31.0 | 19.0 | 2.24 | 91 | .. | 33 | 10 | 11 | 15 | .. | 1 | .. | 21 | 169 | |
Lambeth | 304,073 | 9,266 | 5,422 | 30.6 | 17.9 | 2.50 | 755 | .. | 135 | 30 | 114 | 159 | .. | 35 | 1 | 281 | 506 | 154 |
Battersea | 171,921 | 2,897 | 30.6 | 16.9 | 2.93 | 503 | .. | 114 | 28 | 120 | 68 | .. | 14 | 2 | 157 | 257 | 166 | |
Wandsworth | 202,526 | 5,186 | 2,902 | 25.7 | 14.4 | 2. 40 | 484 | .. | 111 | 16 | 89 | 86 | .. | 16 | .. | 166 | 229 | 144 |
Camberwell | 26l,l89 | 7425 | 4,26l | 28.5 | 164 | 2.41 | 628 | .. | 117 | 18 | 87 | 108 | .. | 26 | .. | 252 | 398 | 160 |
Greenwich | l80,44I | 5.625 | 3 336 | 31.3 | 185 | 3. 08 | 555 | .. | 108 | 21 | 44 | 122 | .. | 38 | .. | 222 | 272 | 176 |
Lee | 39.717 | 891 | 592 | 22 ,5 | 14.9 | 1.97 | 78 | .. | 6 | 7 | 14 | 14 | .. | 7 | .. | 30 | 46 | 160 |
Le wisham | 88,562 | 2.317 | 1.350 | 26 2 | 153 | 2 50 | 221 | .. | 35 | 10 | 26 | 32 | .. | 6 | .. | 112 | 78 | 161 |
Woolwich | 41.478 | 1,253 | 844 | 30.3 | 20.4 | 4.13 | 171 | .. | 58 | 5 | 19 | 27 | .. | 8 | .. | 54 | 86 | 173 |
Plumstead | 62,531 | 1,896 | 1,0l6 | 30.4 | 16.3 | 2.85 | 178 | .. | 58 | 12 | 15 | 33 | .. | 3 | .. | 57 | 92 |