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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
Shoreditch 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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VITAL STATISTICS OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS Table No. 25
| Metropolitan Boroughs. | Estimated Resident Population (mid.1937). | Birth rate. | Death rate— | Infanti le Mortality per 1,000 births. | Maternal Mortality. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rate per 1,000 live births. | Rate per 1,000 live and still births. | ||||||||||
| Crude | Adjusted | ||||||||||
| Puerperal Sepsis. | Other causes. | Total. | Puerperal Sepsis. | Other causes. | Total. | ||||||
| West Districts: | |||||||||||
| Paddington | 138,300 | 13.6 | 130 | 12 9 | 66 | 1.06 | 3.17 | 4.23 | 1.02 | 3.06 | 4.08 |
| Kensington | 175,600 | 12.1 | 13.3 | 12.4 | 83 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 3.2 |
| Hammersmith | 126,500 | 15.1 | 12.6 | 13.0 | 68 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 |
| Fulham | 138,900 | 13.9 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 56 | 0.00 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 0.00 | 2.9 | 2.9 |
| Chelsea | 56,510 | 10.8 | 141 | 12.0 | 59 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Westminster | 124,300 | 8.2 | 11.5 | 11.8 | 59 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 8.8 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 8.4 |
| North Districts: | |||||||||||
| St. Marylebone | 92,110 | 9.4 | 13.1 | 13.0 | 73 | 2.33 | 2.33 | 4.66 | 2.23 | 2.23 | 4.46 |
| Hampstead | 90,690 | 11.2 | 11.6 | 10.9 | 54 | 0.98 | 1.97 | 2.95 | 0.96 | 1.91 | 2.87 |
| St. Pancras | 181,900 | 13.0 | 12.7 | 13.0 | 62 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 3.2 |
| Islington | 295,400 | 15.2 | 12 9 | 13.0 | 66 | 1.99 | l.l1 | 3.10 | 1.94 | 1.07 | 3.01 |
| Stoke Newington | 50,250 | 14.9 | 12.5 | 12.0 | 38 | 0.00 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 0.00 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| Hackney | 206,700 | 13.8 | 1l.l | 11.7 | 43 | 0.34 | 1.04 | 1.39 | 0.33 | 1.01 | 1.34 |
| Central Districts: | |||||||||||
| Holborn | 34,600 | 8.1 | 11.8 | 12.7 | 79 | 3.57 | 0.00 | 3.57 | 3.4 | 0.00 | 3.4 |
| Finsbury | 58,700 | 13.8 | 14.6 | 15.9 | 71 | 0.00 | 2.46 | 2.46 | 0.00 | 2.40 | 2.40 |
| City of London | 8,980 | 6.1 | 11.2 | 12.4 | 36 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| East Districts: | |||||||||||
| Shoreditch | 82,240 | 14.9 | 12.5 | 13.7 | 54 | 0.82 | 2.45 | 3.27 | 0.79 | 2.38 | 3.17 |
| Bethnal Green | 94,560 | 13.3 | 12.5 | 14.1 | 54 | 1.59 | 0.79 | 2.38 | 1.53 | 0.77 | 2.30 |
| Stepney | 203,100 | 13.5 | 12.2 | 14.2 | 61 | 0.72 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 0.69 | 1.74 | 2.4 |
| Poplar | 136,800 | 15.5 | 12.6 | 14.0 | 61 | 0.47 | 0.47 | 0.94 | 0.46 | 0.46 | 0.92 |
| South Districts: | |||||||||||
| Southwark | 147,400 | 14.7 | 13.6 | 14.1 | 64 | 0.46 | 2.77 | 2.33 | 0.45 | 2.68 | 3.13 |
| Bermondsey | 98,790 | 14.4 | 12.3 | 14.0 | 59 | 0.00 | 0.70 | 0.70 | 0.00 | 0.68 | 0.68 |
| Lambeth | 273,800 | 14.1 | 13.2 | 13.0 | 68 | 1.29 | 0.77 | 2.06 | 1.24 | 0.74 | 1.98 |
| Battersea | 143,500 | 14.9 | 12.9 | 12.8 | 70 | 0.00 | 1.87 | 1.87 | 0.00 | 1.81 | 1 81 |
| Wandsworth | 341,700 | 11.5 | 12.4 | 11.4 | 62 | 0.76 | 2.53 | 3.29 | 0.73 | 2.45 | 3.18 |
| Camberwell | 224,800 | 14.1 | 12.8 | 12.8 | 58 | 0.95 | 0.95 | 1.90 | 0.92 | 0.92 | 1.84 |
| Deptford | 96,580 | 15.1 | 11.8 | 12.3 | 45 | 0.00 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.00 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Greenwich | 95,990 | 13.9 | 12.0 | 12.3 | 50 | 0.75 | 0.00 | 0.75 | 0.72 | 0.00 | 0.72 |
| Lewisham | 226,000 | 13.9 | 10.8 | 10.9 | 46 | 0.33 | 0.99 | 1.32 | 0.32 | 0.96 | 1.27 |
| Woolwich | 149,400 | 14.2 | 1 l.l | 11.7 | 40 | 0.00 | 1.41 | 1 .41 | 0.00 | 1.35 | 1 .35 |
| London | 4,094,500 | 13.4 | 12.5 | — | 60 | 0.84 | 1.45 | 2.29 | 0.81 | 1.41 | 2.22 |