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 Hackney]
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COMPARATIVE TABLE, YEAR 1924.
Name of Borough. | Population. | Birth Rate. | Zymotic Death Rate. | Death Rate all causes. | Infant Mortality. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Battersea | 171,000 | 18.4 | 0.7 | 11.7 | 62 |
Bermondsey | 122,100 | 23.8 | — | 13.6 | 78 |
Bethnal Green | 119,200 | 22.1 | 1.1 | 12 .4 | 78 |
Camberwell | 273,700 | 18.8 | 0.7 | 11.4 | 70 |
Chelsea | 64,580 | 14.4 | 0.8 | 13.2 | 63 |
Deptford | 115,200 | 20.6 | 0.7 | 12 .0 | 76 |
Finsbury | 77,180 | 21.5 | 1.27 | 14.1 | 75 |
Fulham | 163,100 | 18.2 | 0.5 | 11.1 | 72 |
Greenwich | 102,470 | 20.0 | 0.69 | 11.4 | 73 |
226,900 | 18.5 | 0.45 | 11.4 | 60 | |
Hammersmith | 134,200 | 17.9 | 12.4 | 72 | |
Hampstead | 87,600 | 13.5 | 0.09 | 11.7 | 56 |
Holborn | 43,250 | 13.3 | 0.57 | 12.2 | 81 |
Islington | 337,400 | 19.8 | 0.66 | 12.3 | 66 |
Kensington | 178,700 | 16.2 | 0.64 | 13.0 | 75 |
Lambeth | 309,300 | 25.5 | 0.6 | 12.5 | 50 |
Lewisham | 184,900 | 16.3 | 0.3 | 10.4 | 47 |
Paddington | 146,400 | 17.1 | 0.9 | 13.1 | 78 |
Poplar | 167,300 | 22.9 | 0.8 | 12.1 | 72 |
St. Marylebone | 105,300 | 14.5 | 1.01 | 13.6 | 78 |
St. Pancras | 214,300 | 18.8 | 1.0 | 13.0 | |
Shoreditch | 106,500 | 23.7 | 13.7 | ||
Southwark | 187,714 | 22.5 | 1.5 | 14.2 | 71 |
Stepney | 254,340 | 21.4 | 0.78 | 12.2 | 74 |
Stoke Newington | 52,920 | 16.6 | 0.7 | 11.3 | 58 |
Wandsworth | 338,200 | 14.57 | 0.47 | 11.0 | 57 |
Westminster | 143,000 | 11.6 | 0.4 | 12.1 | 59 |
Woolwich | 139,980 | 18.5 | 0.5 | 11.0 | 65 |
City of London | 13,300 | 7.1 | 0.14 | 11.3 | 117 |
4,576,505 | 18.7 | — | 12.1 | 69 | |
City of Belfast | - | 24.0 | - | 14.3 | 107 |
,i „ Dublin | — | 25.5 | — | 15.8 | 113 |
.i i, Glasgow | — | 24.1 | — | 16.1 | 119 |
„ „ Edinburgh | — | 19.7 | — | 14.8 | 89 |
n „ Liverpool | — | 24.4 | — | 13.6 | 103 |
n „ Manchester | — | 19.9 | - | 13.9 | 100 |
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