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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T able VIII.
Analysis of the Vital and Mortal Statistics of the Sanitary Districts of the Metropolis, after Distribution of Deaths occurring
in Public Institutions during the year 1900.
Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population in the middle of 1900. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 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. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
London | 4,589,129 | 130,868 | 83,732 | 28.6 | 18.3 | 2.19 | 10,034 | 4 | 1,928 | 361 | 1,539 | 1,945 | 2 | 716 | 7 | 3,532 | 7,809 | 158 |
130,134 | 2,891 | 2,069 | 22.3 | 15.9 | 1.72 | 222 | - | 50 | 5 | 27 | 35 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 95 | 149 | 165 | |
Kensington | 173,603 | 3,586 | 2,730 | 20.7 | 15.8 | 1.66 | 286 | - | 98 | 4 | 27 | 33 | — | 17 | 197 | 104 | 180 | |
Hammersmith | 110,203 | 2,994 | 1,887 | 272 | 17.2 | 2.23 | 247 | - | 90 | 7 | 28 | 10 | — | 17 | 95 | 185 | 162 | |
Fulham | 136,383 | 4,524 | 2,350 | 33.3 | 17.3 | 2.86 | 387 | - | 81 | 23 | 66 | 54 | — | 18 | 145 | 210 | 147 | |
Chelsea | 96,715 | 2,235 | 1,732 | 23.2 | 18.0 | 1.77 | 170 | - | 33 | 7 | 18 | 18 | — | 19 | 75 | 165 | 149 | |
St. George's,Hanover Sq. | 81,133 | 1,295 | 1,119 | 16.0 | 13.8 | 0.78 | 63 | - | 6 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 17 | 110 | 197 | |
Westminster | 51,657 | 1,058 | 1,062 | 20.5 | 20.6 | 1.46 | 75 | - | 20 | 1 | 8 | 15 | — | 9 | 22 | 124 | 189 | |
St. James', Westminster | 21,457 | 409 | 344 | 19.1 | 16.1 | 1.08 | 23 | — | 6 | 1 | 4 | 2 | - | 3 | 7 | 35 | 154 | |
139,777 | 3,991 | 2,627 | 28.6 | 18.9 | 1.86 | 259 | 2 | 49 | 12 | 40 | 55 | - | 12 | 1 | 88 | 278 | 125 | |
Hampstead | 81,766 | 1,621 | 922 | 19.9 | 11.3 | 1.18 | 96 | — | 21 | 4 | 31 | 9 | — | 9 | 22 | 69 | 100 | |
St. Pancras | 245,651 | 6,447 | 4,639 | 26.3 | 18.9 | 2.35 | 580 | — | 126 | 10 | 72 | 105 | — | 64 | 1 | 202 | 472 | 160 |
Islington | 351,541 | 9,253 | 5,723 | 26.4 | 16.3 | 1.90 | 667 | 1 | 161 | 25 | 105 | 147 | — | 49 | 1 | 178 | 556 | 145 |
Stoke Newington | 35,718 | 775 | 449 | 21.8 | 12.6 | 1.43 | 51 | — | 2 | 4 | 14 | 11 | — | 6 | 14 | 37 | 108 | |
Hackney | 225,519 | 6,373 | 3,624 | 28.3 | 16.1 | 2.11 | 476 | — | 33 | 19 | 59 | 112 | — | 43 | 210 | 260 | 158 | |
36,870 | 1,017 | 671 | 27.7 | 18.2 | 1.67 | 61 | - | 11 | 4 | 8 | 14 | - | 5 | 19 | 110 | 118 | ||
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 11,865 | 155 | 209 | 13.1 | 17.7 | 0.84 | 10 | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | 3 | 4 | 28 | 148 | |
Strand | 22,748 | 445 | 464 | 19.6 | 20.5 | 1.14 | 26 | — | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | - | 4 | 8 | 74 | 135 | |
Holborn | 29,188 | 732 | 770 | 25.2 | 26.5 | 2.37 | 69 | — | 21 | 4 | 5 | 11 | - | 4 | 24 | 83 | 240 | |
Clerkenwell | 66,007 | 1,963 | 1,413 | 29.8 | 215 | 2.71 | 179 | — | 39 | 10 | 18 | 52 | — | 6 | 54 | 169 | 167 | |
St. Luke | 40,655 | 1,821 | 1,085 | 44.9 | 26.8 | 325 | 132 | — | 30 | 2 | 13 | 35 | - | 6 | 46 | 128 | 138 | |
London City | 26,922 | 397 | 591 | 14.8 | 22.0 | 0.89 | 24 | — | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | — | 2 | 4 | 67 | 176 | |
120,641 | 4,004 | 2,604 | 33.3 | 21.6 | 3.02 | 364 | - | 76 | 16 | 57 | 48 | - | 14 | 1 | 152 | 224 | 186 | |
Bethnal Green | 128,831 | 4,588 | 2,822 | 35.7 | 22.0 | 2.76 | 355 | — | 63 | 12 | 63 | 94 | — | 18 | 105 | 272 | 168 | |
Whitechapel | 82,220 | 2,902 | 1,589 | 35.4 | 19.4 | 1.73 | 142 | — | 31 | 11 | 19 | 23 | — | 9 | 49 | 189 | 139 | |
St. George-in-the-East | 48,875 | 2,175 | 1,187 | 44.6 | 24.4 | 2.61 | 127 | — | 20 | 6 | 14 | 27 | — | 10 | 50 | 128 | 162 | |
Limehouse | 58,944 | 1,839 | 1,534 | 31.3 | 26.1 | 4.10 | 241 | — | 83 | 13 | 17 | 56 | — | 7 | 65 | 145 | 228 | |
Mile End Old Town | 113,781 | 4,261 | 2,311 | 37.6 | 20.4 | 2.53 | 288 | — | 60 | 7 | 35 | 58 | — | 22 | 106 | 193 | 158 | |
Poplar | 170,968 | 5,923 | 3,803 | 34.7 | 22.3 | 3.34 | 569 | — | 78 | 8 | 115 | 104 | — | 47 | 217 | 305 | 192 | |
23,854 | 700 | 600 | 29.4 | 25.2 | 2.93 | 70 | 10 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 27 | 74 | 197 | |||||
St. George Southwark | 60,597 | 2,093 | 1,652 | 34.6 | 27.3 | 3.53 | 213 | — | 36 | 11 | 23 | 43 | — | 12 | 88 | 221 | 209 | |
Newington | 125,138 | 4,173 | 2,727 | 33.4 | 219 | 2.85 | 355 | — | 70 | 11 | 70 | 65 | — | 21 | 118 | 276 | 171 | |
St. Olave Southwark | 10,909 | 400 | 231 | 36.8 | 21.2 | 1.85 | 20 | _ | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 | — | — | 3 | 29 | 120 | |
Bermondsey | 85,920 | 2,826 | 1,948 | 33.0 | 22.7 | 3.24 | 277 | — | 42 | 7 | 59 | 64 | — | 27 | 78 | 169 | 186 | |
Rotherhithe | 41,246 | 1,184 | 883 | 28.8 | 21.5 | 3.40 | 140 | — | 40 | 6 | 26 | 22 | — | 10 | 36 | 47 | 205 | |
Lambeth | 312,152 | 9,167 | 5,431 | 29.4 | 17.4 | 1.66 | 519 | — | 69 | 21 | 101 | 98 | — | 53 | 1 | 176 | 521 | 145 |
Battersea | 178,100 | 5,161 | 2,985 | 29.1 | 16.8 | 2.34 | 415 | — | 78 | 11 | 34 | 108 | — | 32 | 152 | 262 | 159 | |
Wandsworth | 217,004 | 5,774 | 3,204 | 26.7 | 14.8 | 1.65 | 361 | — | 82 | 17 | 44 | 44 | — | 27 | 1 | 146 | 252 | 144 |
Camberwell | 268,457 | 7,211 | 4,372 | 26.9 | 16.3 | 1.99 | 534 | — | 40 | 12 | 132 | 122 | — | 33 | 195 | 370 | 154 | |
Greenwich | 184,582 | 5,562 | 3,305 | 30.2 | 18.0 | 2.27 | 418 | — | 58 | 15 | 64 | 111 | — | 23 | 147 | 274 | 161 | |
Lee | 40,722 | 990 | 615 | 24.4 | 15.1 | 1.40 | 57 | — | 5 | _ | 19 | 9 | — | 4 | 20 | 39 | 156 | |
Lewisham | 93,548 | 2,784 | 1,469 | 29.8 | 15.7 | 2.14 | 200 | _ | 20 | 9 | 32 | 49 | — | 14 | 76 | 104 | 131 | |
Woolwich | 41,600 | 1,175 | 915 | 28.3 | 22.1 | 2.79 | 116 | — | 29 | 6 | 7 | 15 | — | 3 | 55 | 106 | 173 | |
Plumstead | 68,098 | 1,994 | 1,058 | 29.3 | 15.5 | 2.30 | 150 | 46 | 5 | 24 | 27 | 9 | 36 | 101 | 129 |