London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Stepney 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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of persons married was 12.5 per 1,000 of the population. The
proportion of persons married in the whole of London was
17.6 per 1,000.
Deaths.
The registered deaths exclusive of those non-residents
that occurred in the District, but inclusive of those residents
that died in Out-lying Institutions, numbered 1,529. This
corresponds to a death rate of 25.9 per 1,000 of the population,
the average for the previous 10 years being 25.5 per 1,000.
These deaths were distributed over the District as follows
| Limehouse | 612 |
| Ratcliff | 224 |
| Shadwell and Wapping | 170 |
| East London Children's Hospital | 302 |
| 1308 | |
| Deaths occurring outside the District among persons belonging thereto | 462 |
| 1770 | |
| Deaths occurring within the District a-mong persons not belonging thereto | 241 |
| 1529 |
The death rate after distributing those deaths that occurred
in the Out-lying Institutions to the various parishes
that they belonged to, was:—
Limehouse 25.8 per 1,000 of the population
Ratcliff 25.8 „ „ „
Shadwell and Wapping 26.3 ,, „ ,,