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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

Woolwich 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: TABLE X.Comparative Analysis of Births and Deaths, etc., in Woolwich and other Sanitary Districts of the Metropolis, during the year 1895.

TABLE X.

Comparative Analysis of Births and Deaths, etc., in Woolwich and other Sanitary Districts of the Metropolis, during the year 1895.

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.
Births.Deaths.Principal Zymotic Diseases.
WOOLWICH42768132377130.918.01.985...611143...9...2493158
West Districts.
Paddington1227562977210724.317.21.7207...19144720...13...94163164
Kensington1676713621275921.716.51.9322...34289038...151116253172
Hammersmith1084292909810126.916.72.1225127174443...12...81160166
Fulham1177453930219533.518.72.9342...51217750...121130154187
Chelsea999302734191327.419.22.22211112557...13...79185168
St. George Hanover Square740371470117519.915.91.6117110102426...9136105138
Westminster540031284114623.821.32 .1111...2562115...3...41125185
St. James Westminster2314954241123.517.81.331...23410...6...635144
North Districts.
Marylebone1373924400284332.120.81.7239925143539...23193299138
Hampstead77592145393118.812 .01.078...981471912975135
St. Pancras2335437118477830.520.53.274112285213194...30...205428174
Islington3359299879575329.517.22.0686114167146791302219532143
Stoke Newington3523481347123.113.41.139...7155...4...1737116
Hackney2156236172373528.717.42.55451120418365145...1893I4154
Central Districts.
St. Giles37654112085929.822.92.17721361313...2...28127160
St. Martin-in-the-Fields1353618924414.018.11.82412276...1...524265
Strand2258661256927.225.32.249269133...5...1176175
Holborn3218882181025.625.22.890...45678.........2498
Clerkenwell650362083149132.123.03.9250...93173441111...53159192
St. Luke407631904122646.830.25.5224...10652021...6...66113184
London City3382455372016.421.41.655...15483...13...1251157