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 Bethnal Green]
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Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population middle of 1887. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping-Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Deaths of Children under one year of age to 1000 Births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | |||||||||||||||
LONDON | 4,216,192 | 133,075 | 81,113 | 31.7 | 19.3 | 3.0 | 12,627 | 9 | 2893 | 1431 | 951 | 2928 | 587 | 48 | 3762 | 158 | |
111,965 | 2916 | 1779 | 26.1 | 15.9 | 1.7 | 188 | 1 | 32 | 38 | 29 | 19 | .. | 11 | 1 | 57 | 126 | |
Kensington | 190,357 | 3940 | 2882 | 20.8 | 15.2 | 2.2 | 417 | 1 | 109 | 44 | 40 | 87 | .. | 12 | 3 | 121 | 172 |
Hammersmith | 93,798 | 2941 | 1780 | 31.5 | 19.0 | 36 | 337 | .. | 101 | 26 | 44 | 52 | .. | 13 | 2 | 98 | 156 |
Ful ham | 58,896 | 2870 | 1431 | 48.9 | 24.4 | 4.6 | 269 | .. | 79 | 30 | 19 | 30 | .. | 16 | .. | 95 | 159 |
Chelsea | 99,887 | 3211 | 2098 | 32.3 | 21.1 | 3.5 | 346 | .. | 108 | 24 | 19 | 57 | .. | 27 | 1 | 109 | 160 |
St. George, Hanover Sq. | 88,102 | 1749 | 1422 | 19.9 | 16.2 | 1.9 | 164 | .. | 31 | 31 | 13 | 23 | .. | 6 | 2 | 58 | 157 |
Westminster | 55,942 | 1546 | 1200 | 27.9 | 21.5 | 3.1 | 173 | .. | 40 | 12 | 25 | 28 | .. | 8 | .. | 60 | 186 |
St. James, Westminster | 27,849 | 572 | 505 | 20.6 | 18.2 | 1.8 | 50 | .. | 11 | 7 | 3 | 15 | .. | 2 | .. | 12 | 177 |
Marylebone | 150,468 | 4740 | 2988 | 31.6 | 19.9 | 2.2 | 326 | .. | 62 | 40 | 14 | 89 | .. | 101 | 138 | ||
Hampstead | 55,629 | 1399 | 721 | 25.2 | 13.0 | 1.4 | 80 | .. | 14 | 11 | 13 | 16 | .. | 3 | .. | 23 | 107 |
St. Pancras | 243,125 | 7527 | 4805 | 31.1 | 19.8 | 2.9 | 699 | .. | 147 | 59 | 62 | 204 | .. | 26 | 1 | 200 | 165 |
Islington | 325,907 | 9726 | 5699 | 29.9 | 17.5 | 3.2 | 1036 | .. | 335 | 59 | 46 | 240 | 2 | 38 | 7 | 309 | 160 |
Hackney | 231,903 | 6589 | 3704 | 28.5 | 16.0 | 2.3 | 522 | .. | 114 | 56 | 40 | 138 | .. | 40 | 2 | 132 | 140 |
St. Giles | 40,669 | 1216 | 1059 | 30.0 | 26.1 | 2.7 | 110 | 1 | 15 | 20 | 23 | 21 | .. | 2 | 1 | 27 | 165 |
St.Martin-in-the-Fields | 15,420 | 302 | 323 | 19.7 | 21.0 | 2.0 | 31 | .. | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | .. | 2 | 1 | 10 | 225 |
Strand | 29,708 | 718 | 694 | 24.2 | 23.4 | 2.7 | 79 | .. | 8 | 9 | 10 | 19 | .. | 9 | .. | 24 | 202 |
Holborn | 31,052 | 940 | 876 | 30.4 | 28.3 | 2.9 | 91 | .. | 24 | 9 | 9 | 21 | .. | 5 | .. | 23 | 228 |
Clerkenwell | 69,745 | 2363 | 1543 | 34.0 | 22.2 | 3 9 | 269 | .. | 69 | 23 | 17 | 57 | .. | 12 | 1 | 90 | 171 |