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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81.2
Table VII.
Analysis of the Vital Statistics of the Metropolitan Boroughs and of the City of London after Distribution of
Deaths in Public Institutions during 1902.
Boroughs. | Estimated Population middle of 1902. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 living. | Deaths from Principal Infectious Diseases. | Small.Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Ill-Defined Fever. | Diarrhœa. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children Under 1 Year of Age to 1,000 Births. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Births. | Deaths. | Principal Infectious Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
County op London | 4,579,110 | 132,810 | 80,105 | 28.5 | 17.2 | 2.21 | 10280 | 1314 | 2360 | 560 | 1159 | 1876 | - | 537 | 4 | 2470 | 7424 | 139 |
Paddington | 145,107 | 3,304 | 2,156 | 22.4 | 14.6 | 1.74 | 256 | 20 | 83 | 9 | 33 | 23 | - | 13 | - | 75 | 155 | 133 |
Kensington | 177,605 | 3,488 | 2,768 | 19.3 | 15.3 | 1.49 | 265 | 11 | 93 | 21 | 19 | 21 | - | 19 | - | 81 | 232 | 149 |
Hammersmith | 114,210 | 3,192 | 1,895 | 27.5 | 16.3 | 1.90 | 222 | 13 | 77 | 7 | 23 | 27 | - | 11 | - | 64 | 166 | 143 |
Fulham | 143,102 | 4,789 | 2,488 | 32.9 | 17.1 | 3.13 | 454 | 13 | 168 | 19 | 51 | 65 | - | 9 | - | 129 | 200 | 148 |
Chelsea | 74,018 | 1,685 | 1,354 | 22.4 | 18.0 | 2.06 | 155 | 7 | 67 | 8 | 13 | 14 | - | 6 | - | 40 | 109 | 145 |
City of Westminster | 380,800 | 3,286 | 2,953 | 17.9 | 16.1 | 1.28 | 234 | 39 | 42 | 15 | 29 | 34 | - | 20 | 1 | 54 | 328 | 136 |
St. Marylebone | 132,145 | 3,976 | 2,455 | 29.6 | 18.3 | 1.98 | 267 | 24 | 97 | 14 | 27 | 23 | - | 15 | - | 67 | 258 | 107 |
Hampstead | 83,743 | 1,549 | 920 | 18.2 | 10.8 | 0.81 | 68 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 10 | - | 11 | - | 12 | 72 | 87 | |
St. Pancras | 235,521 | 6,452 | 4,450 | 27.0 | 18.6 | 2.46 | 580 | 81 | 113 | 49 | 107 | 113 | - | 44 | - | 83 | 450 | 147 |
Islington | 337,270 | 9,217 | 5,634 | 26.9 | 16.4 | 1.80 | 614 | 54 | 116 | 40 | 104 | 156 | - | 46 | - | 98 | 513 | 133 |
Stoke Newington | 51,700 | 1,154 | 702 | 22.0 | 13.4 | 1.17 | 61 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 14 | - | 4 | 1 | 18 | 66 | 115 |
Hackney | 221,926 | 6,382 | 3,378 | 28.3 | 15.0 | 1.98 | 443 | 70 | 78 | 15 | 61 | 92 | - | 31 | - | 96 | 323 | 119 |
Holborn | 58,535 | 1,647 | 1,266 | 27.7 | 21.3 | 2.44 | 146 | 46 | 30 | 8 | 10 | 27 | - | 6 | - | 19 | 179 | 129 |
Finsbury | 100,487 | 3,697 | 2,334 | 36.2 | 22.9 | 3.18 | 325 | 36 | 83 | 15 | 38 | 75 | - | 9 | - | 69 | 233 | 154 |
City of London | 25,598 | 340 | 530 | 13.1 | 20.4 | 1.38 | 36 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 4 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 44 | |
Shoreditch | 118,004 | 4,069 | 2,488 | 33.9 | 20.7 | 3.53 | 425 | 76 | 88 | 8 | 25 | 76 | - | 22 | - | 130 | 217 | 174 |
Bethnal Green | 129,865 | 4,589 | 2,747 | 34.8 | 20.8 | 2.56 | 339 | 64 | 59 | 19 | 33 | 89 | - | 14 | - | 61 | 260 | 155 |
Stepney | 300,551 | 11,590 | 6,285 | 38.0 | 20.6 | 3.31 | 1009 | 260 | 164 | 30 | 85 | 199 | - | 34 | - | 237 | 579 | 147 |
Poplar | 169,214 | 5,890 | 3,326 | 34.2 | 19.3 | 2.77 | 476 | 93 | 69 | 21 | 57 | 99 | - | 27 | - | 110 | 293 | 154 |
Southwark | 206,825 | 6,897 | 4,495 | 32.8 | 21.4 | 3.10 | 653 | 78 | 164 | 42 | 63 | 114 | - | 23 | - | 169 | 550 | 166 |
Bermondsey | 130,218 | 4,346 | 2,753 | 32.8 | 20.8 | 3.06 | 405 | 31 | 155 | 18 | 30 | 69 | - | 18 | - | 89 | 249 | 155 |
Lambeth | 305,102 | 9,067 | 5,384 | 29.2 | 17.4 | 1.86 | 581 | 60 | 83 | 48 | 53 | 118 | - | 38 | 1 | 180 | 526 | 127 |
Battersea | 171,401 | 4,941 | 2,618 | 28.4 | 15.0 | 1.98 | 346 | 27 | 101 | 24 | 18 | 63 | - | 16 | - | 97 | 229 | 127 |
Wandsworth | 241,810 | 6,380 | 3,306 | 25.9 | 13.5 | 1.62 | 402 | 25 | 97 | 23 | 67 | 64 | - | 29 | - | 97 | 221 | 127 |
Camberwell | 262,775 | 7,487 | 4,345 | 28.0 | 16.3 | 2.23 | 596 | 63 | 121 | 41 | 84 | 110 | - | 31 | - | 146 | 402 | 138 |
Deptford | 111,577 | 3,391 | 1,873 | 29.9 | 16.5 | 2.44 | 277 | 33 | 74 | 19 | 20 | 41 | - | 13 | 1 | 76 | 127 | 138 |
Greenwich | 98,013 | 2,802 | 1,532 | 28.1 | 15.4 | 1.59 | 159 | 22 | 41 | 6 | 15 | 20 | - | 9 | - | 46 | 119 | 138 |
Lewisham | 132,432 | 3,466 | 1,833 | 25.7 | 13.6 | 1.79 | 241 | 12 | 27 | 19 | 45 | 65 | - | 9 | - | 64 | 143 | 125 |
Woolwich | 119,556 | 3,734 | 1,837 | 30.7 | 15.1 | 235 | 38 | 40 | 9 | 23 | 51 | - | 13 | - | 61 | 181 | 125 |