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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 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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Table: TABLE X—Continued.Analysis of the Vital and Mortal Statistics of Woolwich and other Sanitary Districts of the Metropolis, after Distributionof Deaths occurring in Public Institutions, during the Year1898.

TABLE X—Continued.

Analysis of the Vital and Mortal Statistics of Woolwich and other Sanitary Districts of the Metropolis, after Distributionof Deaths occurring in Public Institutions, during the Year1898.

Sanitary Areas.Estimated Population middle of 1898.Births.Deaths.Annual Rate per 100 Living.Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases.Small-pox.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.
East District.
Shoreditch1214854266270735.222.33.95480...108214498...17...192245196
Bethnal Green1290274779287237.122.33.90503...1521162119...17...142279184
Whitechapel805593123162238.923.22.10169...4582024...9...163209144
St. George-in-the-East482412083119243.324.83.31159...3361439...7...60130195
Limehouse586611912139032.723.84.26249...5752662...8190140208
Mile End Old Town1125284294222938.319.93.51393...9386374...13...142164155
Poplar1702205907360514.821.23.72029...1302289120...301237311191
South District.
St. Saviour Southwark2456273957730.223.63.0976...1711514...4...2575211
St. George Southwark604612138147035.524.43.99241...43203634...9...99192188
Newington1321834165252033.920.53.17388...55247245...10...182298173
St. Olave Southwark1128835723231.720.62.3126...51311...1...525132
Bermondsey857383090177136.120.73.02258...59194447...9...80184157
Rotherhithe40849129877331.919.02.249133101115...1...2174169
Lambeth3040739266542230.617.92.50755...13530114159...351281506154
Battersea1719215157289730.016.92.93503...1142812068...142157257166
Wandsworth2025265186290225.714.42.40484...111168986...16...166229144
Camberwell2611897425426128.516.42.41628...1171887128...26...252398160
Greenwich1804415625333631.318.53.08555...10821441 22...38...222272176
Lee3977189159222.514.91.9778...6714...7...3046160
Lewisham885622317135026.215.32.50221...35102632...6...11278161
Plumstead625311890101630.416.32.85178...58121533...3...5792155