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 Woolwich]
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Sanitary Area. | Estimated Population middle of 1895. | Births. | Dea;hs. | Annual Rate per 1000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1000 Births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
WOOLWICH | 42768 | 1323 | 771 | 30.9 | 18.0 | 1.9 | 85 | ... | 6 | 11 | 14 | 3 | ... | 9 | ... | 24 | 93 | 158 |
Paddington | 122756 | 2977 | 2107 | 24.3 | 17.2 | 1.7 | 207 | ... | 19 | 14 | 47 | 20 | ... | 13 | ... | 94 | 163 | 164 |
Kensington | 167671 | 3621 | 2759 | 21.7 | 16.5 | 1.9 | 322 | ... | 34 | 28 | 90 | 38 | ... | 15 | 1 | 116 | 253 | 172 |
Hammersmith | 108429 | 2909 | 8101 | 26.9 | 16.7 | 2.1 | 225 | 1 | 27 | 17 | 44 | 43 | ... | 12 | ... | 81 | 160 | 166 |
Fulham | 117745 | 3930 | 2195 | 33.5 | 18.7 | 2.9 | 342 | ... | 51 | 21 | 77 | 50 | ... | 12 | 1 | 130 | 154 | 187 |
Chelsea | 99930 | 2734 | 1913 | 27.4 | 19.2 | 2.2 | 221 | 1 | 11 | 25 | 57 | ... | 13 | ... | 79 | 185 | 168 | |
St. George Hanover Square | 74037 | 1470 | 1175 | 19.9 | 15.9 | 1.6 | 117 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 24 | 26 | ... | 9 | 1 | 36 | 105 | 138 |
Westminster | 54003 | 1284 | 1146 | 23.8 | 21.3 | 2 .1 | 111 | ... | 25 | 6 | 21 | 15 | ... | 3 | ... | 41 | 125 | 185 |
St. James Westminster | 23149 | 542 | 411 | 23.5 | 17.8 | 1.3 | 31 | ... | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | ... | 6 | ... | 6 | 35 | 144 |
Marylebone | 137392 | 4400 | 2843 | 32.1 | 20.8 | 1.7 | 239 | 9 | 25 | 14 | 35 | 39 | ... | 23 | 1 | 93 | 299 | 138 |
Hampstead | 77592 | 1453 | 931 | 18.8 | 12 .0 | 1.0 | 78 | ... | 9 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 29 | 75 | 135 |
St. Pancras | 233543 | 7118 | 4778 | 30.5 | 20.5 | 3.2 | 741 | 1 | 228 | 52 | 131 | 94 | ... | 30 | ... | 205 | 428 | 174 |
Islington | 335929 | 9879 | 5753 | 29.5 | 17.2 | 2.0 | 686 | 1 | 141 | 67 | 146 | 79 | 1 | 30 | 2 | 219 | 532 | 143 |
Stoke Newington | 35234 | 813 | 471 | 23.1 | 13.4 | 1.1 | 39 | ... | 7 | 1 | 5 | 5 | ... | 4 | ... | 17 | 37 | 116 |
Hackney | 215623 | 6172 | 3735 | 28.7 | 17.4 | 2.5 | 545 | 1 | 120 | 41 | 83 | 65 | 1 | 45 | ... | 189 | 3I4 | 154 |
St. Giles | 37654 | 1120 | 859 | 29.8 | 22.9 | 2.1 | 77 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 13 | ... | 2 | ... | 28 | 127 | 160 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 13536 | 189 | 244 | 14.0 | 18.1 | 1.8 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 6 | ... | 1 | ... | 5 | 24 | 265 |
Strand | 22586 | 612 | 569 | 27.2 | 25.3 | 49 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 3 | ... | 5 | ... | 11 | 76 | 175 | |
Holborn | 32188 | 821 | 810 | 25.6 | 25.2 | 2.8 | 90 | ... | 45 | 6 | 7 | 8 | ... | ... | ... | 24 | 98 | |
Clerkenwell | 65036 | 2083 | 1491 | 32.1 | 23.0 | 3.9 | 250 | ... | 93 | 17 | 34 | 41 | 1 | 11 | ... | 53 | 159 | 192 |
St. Luke | 40763 | 1904 | 1226 | 46.8 | 30.2 | 5.5 | 224 | ... | 106 | 5 | 20 | 21 | ... | 6 | ... | 66 | 113 | 184 |
London City | 33824 | 553 | 720 | 16.4 | 21.4 | 1.6 | 55 | ... | 15 | 4 | 8 | 3 | ... | 13 | ... | 12 | 51 | 157 |