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 VI a.
London and the Metropolitan Boroughs.—Birtii-rater and Death-rates of Persons belonging to London and the Metropolitan Boroughs during the 52 weeks of 1911.
Boroughs. | Per 1,000 Persons Living. | Deaths under 1 year to 1000 Births. | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Births. | Deaths from | |||||||||||
All Causes. | Enteric Fever. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping-cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years). | Phthisis. | ||||
Crude. | Cor-* rected. | |||||||||||
County of London | 24.8 | 15.0 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.57 | 004 | 0.23 | 0.14 | 1.18 | 1.35 | 129 | |
West. | ||||||||||||
Paddington | 21.4 | 13.3 | 0.04 | .. | 0.34 | 0.02 | 0.31 | 0.08 | 0.94 | 1.22 | 127 | |
Kensington | 18.9 | 13.7 | 0.02 | .. | 0.55 | 0.01 | 0.31 | 0.10 | 0.85 | 0.93 | 133 | |
Hammersmith | 24.1 | 15.6 | 0.06 | .. | 0.30 | 0.04 | 0.29 | 0.23 | 1.47 | 1.26 | 146 | |
Fulham | 26.9 | 14.4 | 0.05 | .. | 0.42 | 0.05 | 0.18 | 0.18 | 1.39 | 1.46 | 125 | |
Chelsea | 19.2 | 15.5 | — | .. | 0.45 | 0.02 | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.83 | 1.45 | 109 | |
City of Westminster | 14.8 | 12.5 | 0.03 | .. | 0.14 | 0.02 | 0.16 | 0.09 | 0.40 | 1.21 | 103 | |
North. | ||||||||||||
St. Marylebone | 20.2 | 15.1 | 0.02 | .. | 0.56 | 0.06 | 0.24 | 0.04 | 0.71 | 1.46 | 108 | |
Hampstead | 14.9 | 9.6 | 0.02 | .. | 0.16 | — | 0.04 | 0.20 | 0.26 | 0.61 | 78 | |
St. Pancras | 25.6 | 15.5 | 0.03 | .. | 0.50 | 0.06 | 0.25 | 0.17 | 0.92 | 1.57 | 112 | |
Islington | 24.8 | 14.9 | 0.04 | .. | 0.40 | 0.06 | 0.21 | 0.16 | 1.12 | 1.24 | 127 | |
Stoke Newington | 20.7 | 13.0 | 0.02 | .. | 0.55 | 0.06 | 0.36 | 0.06 | 0.55 | 1.09 | 102 | |
Hackney | 23.5 | 14.3 | 0.04 | .. | 0.67 | 0.05 | 0.26 | 0.09 | 0.88 | 1.40 | 119 | |
Central. | ||||||||||||
Holborn | 19.3 | 15.7 | 0.06 | .. | 0.31 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.69 | 2.08 | 115 | |
Finsbury | 30.6 | 19.8 | 0.09 | .. | 0.90 | 0.07 | 0.27 | 0.19 | 1.63 | 1.87 | 156 | |
City of London | 11.6 | 15.1 | .. | .. | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.52 | 1.60 | 124 | |
East. | ||||||||||||
Shoreditch | 31.9 | 20.1 | 0.01 | .. | 1.15 | 0.05 | 0.29 | 0.22 | 2.00 | 1.84 | 170 | |
Bethnal Green | 31.5 | 18.2 | 0.02 | .. | 1.02 | 0.04 | 0.38 | 0.16 | 1.94 | 1.63 | 151 | |
Stepney | 31.4 | 17.4 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 1.09 | 0.03 | 0.18 | 0.11 | 1.68 | 1.77 | 144 | |
Poplar | 31.0 | 18.9 | 0.09 | 0.01 | 1.39 | 0.06 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 1.95 | 1.32 | 157 | |
South. | ||||||||||||
Southwark | 29.8 | 18.4 | 0.03 | .. | 0.63 | 0.03 | 0.34 | 0.16 | 1.56 | 1.71 | 144 | |
Bermondsey | 31.2 | 18.4 | 0.04 | .. | 0.44 | 0.05 | 0.40 | 0.10 | 1.69 | 1.78 | 156 | |
Lambeth | 24.5 | 14.9 | 0.04 | .. | 0.38 | 0.03 | 0.23 | 0.14 | 1.13 | 1.41 | 123 | |
Battersea | 26.1 | 14.3 | 0.02 | .. | 0.67 | 0.02 | 0.22 | 0.12 | 1.33 | 1.33 | 124 | |
Wandsworth | 21.6 | 12.0 | 0.03 | .. | 0.74 | 0.03 | 0.22 | 0.11 | 0.94 | 0.89 | 122 | |
Camberwell | 24.5 | 14.3 | 0.02 | .. | 0.43 | 0.03 | 0.17 | o.io | 1.06 | 1.34 | 109 | |
Deptford | 27.5 | 15.6 | 0.02 | .. | 0.63 | 0.06 | 0.34 | 0.14 | 1.57 | 1.27 | 142 | |
Greenwich | 24.8 | 14.7 | 0.03 | .. | 0.43 | 0.03 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 1.59 | 1.17 | 128 | |
Lewisham | 21.2 | 11.3 | 0.03 | .. | 0.13 | 3.03 | 0.11 | 0.17 | 0.79 | 0.64 | 104 | |
Woolwich | 23.2 | 12 8 | .. | .. | 0.23 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.84 | 1.34 | 97 |
In this Table 0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.005; where no death
occurred, —is inserted.
The Corrected Death.rates represent the Crude Death-rates multiplied by the respective Factors
for Correction for differences of sex and age constitution of population as in 1901.