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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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 1903.
Boroughs. | Estimated Population middle of 1903. | 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. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1,000 Births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Infectious Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
County of London | 4,613,812 | 130,906 | 69,737 | 28.5 | 15.2 | 1.76 | 8,088 | 13 | 2,046 | 361 | 740 | 1,627 | 3 | 368 | 5 | 2,925 | 7,124 | 130 |
Paddington | 146,032 | 3,303 | 1,928 | 22.7 | 13.2 | 1.31 | 191 | .. | 40 | 10 | 15 | 54 | .. | 7 | .. | 65 | 155 | 119 |
Kensington | 178,409 | 3,567 | 2,468 | 20.0 | 13.9 | 1.56 | 278 | .. | 34 | 14 | 24 | 90 | .. | 9 | .. | 107 | 223 | 145 |
Hammersmith | 115,803 | 2,989 | 1,634 | 25.9 | 14.1 | 1.60 | 185 | .. | 27 | 8 | 17 | 30 | .. | 9 | .. | 93 | 170 | 141 |
Fulham | 147,780 | 4,789 | 2,046 | 32.5 | 13.9 | 2.22 | 327 | .. | 62 | 8 | 24 | 46 | .. | 15 | .. | 172 | 204 | 127 |
Chelsea | 74,169 | 1,516 | 1,131 | 20.5 | 15.3 | 1.14 | 84 | .. | 14 | 2 | 4 | 29 | .. | 4 | .. | 31 | 116 | 142 |
City of Westminster | 179,052 | 3,018 | 2,432 | 16.9 | 13.6 | 1.00 | 179 | .. | 49 | 9 | 15 | 34 | .. | 14 | .. | 55 | 301 | 123 |
St. Marylebone | 131,234 | 3,984 | 2,148 | 30.5 | 16.4 | 1.60 | 210 | .. | 37 | 17 | 26 | 56 | .. | 13 | .. | 59 | 240 | 96 |
Hampstead | 85,197 | 1,456 | 848 | 17.1 | 10.0 | 0.58 | 49 | .. | 8 | 4 | 10 | 16 | .. | 2 | .. | 9 | 63 | 88 |
St. Pancras | 235,716 | 6,339 | 3,806 | 27.0 | 16.2 | 1.91 | 448 | .. | 193 | 23 | 37 | 91 | .. | 14 | .. | 90 | 428 | 133 |
Islington | 339,137 | 8,983 | 4,837 | 26.6 | 14.3 | 1.45 | 489 | .. | 125 | 24 | 42 | 153 | .. | 23 | .. | 121 | 472 | 126 |
Stoke Newington . | 52,069 | 1,091 | 655 | 21.0 | 12.6 | 1.46 | 76 | .. | 24 | .. | 7 | 19 | .. | 5 | .. | 21 | 64 | 119 |
Hackney | 224,082 | 6,182 | 3,099 | 27.7 | 13.9 | 1.78 | 397 | .. | 113 | 21 | 48 | 67 | .. | 36 | .. | 112 | 283 | 119 |
Holborn | 57,845 | 1,631 | 1,072 | 28.3 | 18.6 | 1.44 | 83 | .. | 18 | 5 | 8 | 18 | .. | 5 | .. | 29 | 181 | 95 |
Finsbury | 99,717 | 3,693 | 2,015 | 37.1 | 20.3 | 2.32 | 231 | .. | 69 | 11 | 11 | 54 | .. | 10 | .. | 76 | 227 | 135 |
City of London | 24,539 | 338 | 358 | 13.8 | 14.6 | 0.86 | 21 | .. | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | .. | 3 | .. | 8 | 39 | 136 |
Shoreditch | 117,513 | 3,905 | 2,273 | 33.3 | 19.4 | 2.90 | 340 | .. | 102 | 7 | 22 | 44 | .. | 13 | .. | 152 | 272 | 171 |
Bethnal Green | 130,028 | 4,627 | 2,363 | 35.7 | 18.2 | 2.24 | 290 | .. | 85 | 12 | 27 | 42 | .. | 12 | .. | 112 | 272 | 141 |
Stepney- | 302,153 | 11,329 | 5,430 | 37.6 | 18.0 | 2.36 | 712 | 4 | 173 | 21 | 58 | 108 | .. | 27 | .. | 321 | 633 | 138 |
Poplar | 169,550 | 5,832 | 3,078 | 34.5 | 18.2 | 2.99 | 505 | 2 | 161 | 19 | 60 | 80 | .. | 17 | .. | 166 | 294 | 154 |
Southwark | 207,369 | 6,717 | 3,742 | 32.5 | 18.1 | 1.99 | 412 | .. | 83 | 18 | 23 | 68 | .. | 23 | .. | 197 | 496 | 148 |
Bermondsey | 129,801 | 4,201 | 2,387 | 32.5 | 18.4 | 2.05 | 265 | .. | 51 | 25 | 18 | 41 | .. | 12 | .. | 115 | 225 | 158 |
Lambeth | 307,711 | 9,080 | 4,659 | 29.6 | 15.2 | 1.73 | 530 | 4 | 130 | 23 | 29 | 126 | .. | 23 | .. | 194 | 430 | 125 |
Battersea | 173,422 | 4,961 | 2,464 | 28.7 | 14.2 | 1.98 | 343 | .. | 108 | 7 | 29 | 81 | .. | 17 | .. | 101 | 223 | 134 |
Wandsworth | 249,678 | 6,722 | 3,083 | 27.0 | 12.4 | 1.61 | 401 | .. | 107 | 17 | 44 | 89 | .. | 18 | .. | 126 | 237 | 109 |
Camberwell | 265,562 | 7,311 | 3,627 | 27.6 | 13.7 | 1.36 | 359 | .. | 81 | 13 | 34 | 72 | .. | 17 | .. | 142 | 323 | 123 |
Deptford | 112,537 | 3,379 | 1,674 | 30.1 | 14.9 | 2.19 | 246 | .. | 62 | 18 | 45 | 45 | .. | 4 | .. | 72 | 152 | 134 |
Greenwich | 99,824 | 2,716 | 1,326 | 27.3 | 13.3 | 1.74 | 173 | .. | 28 | 9 | 27 | 37 | .. | 1 | .. | 71 | 111 | 127 |
Lewisham | 136,405 | 3,563 | 1,516 | 26.2 | 11.1 | 0 .96 | 131 | .. | 34 | 11 | 21 | 6 | .. | 10 | .. | 49 | 114 | 92 |
Woolwich | 123,172 | 3,691 | 1,637 | 30.0 | 13.3 | 1.10 | 134 | .. | 25 | 4 | 13 | 27 | .. | 6 | .. | 59 | 171 | 106 |