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 Newington]
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Death-rates during 1896 in London and its Sanitary Areas from All Causes, and from certain diseases (1) as registered, and (2) after Distribution of Deaths in Public Institutions.—Registrar General.
| Sanitary Areas. | Death-rate per 1000 living. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Phthisis. | |||||
| As Registered. | After Correction. | As Registered. | After Correction. | As Registered. | After Correction. | As Registered. | After Correction. | |
| REGISTRATION LONDON West. | 18.6 | 18.2 | 0.21 | 0.21 | 0.60 | 0.59 | 1.73 | 1.68 |
| Paddington | 16.5 | 15.3 | 0.06 | 0.17 | 0.33 | 0.51 | 1.27 | 1.27 |
| Kensington | 18.2 | 16.8 | 0.05 | 0.23 | 0.22 | 0.40 | 2.35 | 1.42 |
| Hammersmith | 14.6 | 17.2 | 0.09 | 0.20 | 0.34 | 0.49 | 1.12 | 1.40 |
| Fulham | 20.3 | 17.6 | 0.85 | 0.25 | 1.71 | 0.66 | 1.73 | 1.66 |
| Chelsea | 19.4 | 18.8 | 0.07 | 0.23 | 0.51 | 1.17 | 2.53 | 1.82 |
| St. George Hanover Square | 18.9 | 13.6 | 0.04 | 0.14 | 0.38 | 0.30 | 2.13 | 1.28 |
| St. Margaret & St. John, W estminster | 15.3 | 18.0 | 0.02 | 0.18 | 0.26 | 0.37 | 1.12 | 2.24 |
| St. James Westminster | 14.8 | 17.0 | 0.04 | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.09 | 1.20 | 1.89 |
| North. | ||||||||
| St. Marylebone | 17.4 | 19.9 | 0.02 | 0.18 | 0.26 | 0.52 | 1.21 | 1.95 |
| Hampstead | 16.9 | 11.9 | 1.22 | 0.09 | 3.24 | 0.39 | 1.96 | 1.12 |
| St. Pancras | 18.5 | 18.1 | 0.06 | 0.15 | 0.30 | 0.40 | 2.12 | 1.93 |
| Islington | 16.7 | 17.1 | 0.08 | 0.17 | 0.41 | 0. 74 | 1.69 | 1.45 |
| Stoke Newington | 11.2 | 12.7 | 0.18 | 0.23 | 0.50 | 0.56 | 0.70 | 0.82 |
| Hackney | 17.0 | 15.7 | 0.44 | 0.17 | 0.85 | 0.47 | 1.50 | 1.41 |
| Central. | ||||||||
| St. Giles | 15.0 | 19.0 | ... | 0.18 | 0.05 | 0.18 | 2.50 | 2.91 |
| St. Martin.in.the.Fields | 25.6 | 16.2 | 0.15 | 0.23 | 0.30 | 0.23 | 2.42 | 1.97 |
| Strand | 23.1 | 22.7 | 0.04 | 0.25 | 0.17 | 0.12 | 9.l1 | 2.89 |
| Holborn | 25.3 | 23.4 | ... | ... | 0.92 | 0.38 | 2.83 | 3.24 |
| Clerkenwell | 13.9 | 20.7 | 0.07 | 0:22 | 0.27 | 0.62 | 1.25 | 2.16 |
| St. Luke's | 17.3 | 25.1 | 0.12 | 0.50 | 0.24 | 0.62 | 2.13 | 2.92 |
| City of London | 34.5 | 19.6 | 0.09 | 0.22 | 1.13 | 0.34 | 2.22 | 1.60 |
| East. | ||||||||
| Shoreditch | 21.5 | 21.4 | 0.10 | 0.31 | 0.36 | 0.60 | 1.71 | 1.87 |
| Bethnal Green | 20.7 | 22.1 | 0.14 | 0.27 | 0.36 | 0.57 | 2.18 | 1.80 |
| Whitechapel | 29.4 | 20.6 | 0.05 | 0.25 | 0.77 | 0.60 | 2.57 | 2.41 |
| St. George.in.the.East | 19 8 | 24.5 | 0.17 | 037 | 0.21 | 0.62 | 2.25 | 2.56 |
| Limehouse | 20.4 | 22.9 | 0.10 | 0.25 | 0.74 | 0.83 | 1.37 | 2.24 |
| Mile End Old Town | 17.7 | 19.9 | 0.13 | 0.30 | 0.41 | 0.86 | 1.23 | 1.38 |
| Poplar | 21.1 | 20.6 | 0.09 | 0.19 | 0.46 | 0.61 | 1.97 | 1.75 |
| South. | ||||||||
| St. Saviour Southwark | 152 | 22.8 | 0.04 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 0.70 | 1.44 | 3.11 |
| St. George.the.Martyr, Southwark | 18.8 | 24.0 | 0.05 | 0 28 | 0.41 | 0.65 | 1.29 | 2.69 |
| Newington | 15.3 | 20.5 | 0.09 | 0.24 | 0.31 | 0.58 | 1.10 | 1.99 |
| St. Olave | 70.1 | 22.0 | ... | 0.42 | 1.52 | 0.76 | 5.23 | 2.19 |
| Bermondsey | 16.7 | 21.6 | 0.07 | 0.23 | 0.49 | 0.84 | 1.33 | 2.03 |
| Rotherhithe | 23.8 | 20.3 | 0.10 | 0.24 | 0.49 | 0.63 | 3.29 | 2.19 |
| Lambeth | 17.8 | 16.9 | 0.33 | 0.22 | 0.66 | 0.46 | 1.56 | 1.63 |
| Batter sea. | 17.4 | 17.7 | 0.03 | 0.19 | 0.30 | 0.49 | 1.44 | 1.44 |
| Wandsworth | 13.8 | 14.3 | 0.54 | 0.15 | 1 05 | 0.21 | 0.77 | 0.97 |
| Camberwell | 18.8 | 17.8 | 0.08 | 0.20 | 0.67 | 1.01 | 2.13 | 1.54 |
| Greenwich | 190 | 18.5 | 0.54 | 0.28 | 1.25 | 078 | 1.56 | 1.57 |
| Lee | 16.3 | 13.4 | 0.74 | 0.20 | 1.27 | 0.43 | 1.42 | 1.27 |
| Lewisham (excluding Penge) | 12.6 | 14.3 | 0.04 | 0.08 | 0.40 | 0.88 | 0.93 | 1.04 |
| Woolwich | 16.3 | 20.5 | 0.05 | 0.21 | 0.36 | 0.74 | 1.38 | 2.09 |
| Plumstead | 16.5 | 15.4 | 0.12 | 0.30 | 0.59 | 0.91 | 1.67 | 1.35 |