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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
Bethnal Green 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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Birth 62, Tabes Mesenterica 40, Diarrhœa 54, Suffocation 39,
Inflammation of Brain 30, Whooping Cough 28, Measles 22.
DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
As usual, nearly half the deaths (1311, equal that is to 48.4
per cent.), were those of young children aged less than five years.
Assuming that the proportion of young children to adults has been
maintained since the last census, the number of young children in
1889 would be 20,000; upon this estimated population we shew a
death rate of 65.5.
Analysts of the Vital and Mortal Statistic of the Sanitary District, of the Metropolis,. after complete distribution of deaths occurring in Public Institutions, during the Year
| Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population middle of 1889. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1,000 Living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet fever | Diphtheria. | Whooping-Cough. | Typhus | Enteric Fever. | | Simple and undefied Fever. | Diarrheas. | Deaths of children under one year of age to 1000 births. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | |||||||||||||||
| LONDON | 4,351,738 | 131,487 | 74,362 | 30.3 | 17.1 | 2.2 | 9,635 | 1 | 2309 | 778 | 1551 | 1747 | 15 | 520 | 43 | 2670 | 141 |
| West Districts— Paddington | 112,590 | 2.864 | 1,657 | 25.5 | 14.8 | 1.5 | 165 | 11 | 10 | 42 | 26 | 16 | 60 | 138 | |||
| Kensington | 196.226 | 3.697 | 2,427 | 18.9 | 12.4 | 1.4 | 267 | 14 | 111 | 26 | 19 | 1 | 68 | 134 | |||
| Hammersmith | 102.453 | 2,831 | 1,634 | 27.7 | 16.0 | 1.9 | 195 | 23 | 19 | 45 | 38 | 16 | 2 | 52 | 150 | ||
| fulham | 66,441 | 3,132 | 1,542 | 47.3 | 23.3 | 3.7 | 243 | 52 | 23 | 12 | 68 | 5 | 1 | 82 | 159 | ||
| Chelsea | 104,375 | 2,961 | 1,790 | 28.5 | 17.2 | 2.1 | 221 | 49 | 11 | 24 | 64 | 13 | 2 | 58 | 125 | ||
| St. George, Hanover Sq. | 87,944 | 1,670 | 1,235 | 19.1 | 14.1 | 1.7 | 153 | 46 | 4 | 30 | 28 | 13 | 1 | 31 | 138 | ||
| Westminster | 54,875 | l,545 | 1,178 | 28.2 | 21.5 | 3.3 | 179 | 69 | 13 | 28 | 26 | 3 | 40 | 151 | |||
| St. James', Westminster | 27,231 | 534 | 500 | 19.7 | 18.4 | 2.5 | 69 | 32 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 183 | ||
| North Districts— | |||||||||||||||||
| Marylebone | 149,639 | 4,531 | 2.646 | 30.4 | 17.7 | 1.6 | 236 | 46 | 5 | 34 | 68 | 1 | 19 | 63 | 132 | ||
| Hampstead | 57,534 | 1,488 | 753 | 26.0 | 13.1 | 1.2 | 67 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 6 | 18 | 122 | |||
| St. Pancras | 245,291 | 7,292 | 4,345 | 29.8 | 17.8 | 2.0 | 491 | 87 | 28 | 62 | 116 | 30 | 2 | 166 | 144 | ||
| Islington | 337,596 | 9,566 | 5,035 | 28.4 | 15.0 | 1.9 | 629 | 177 | 40 | 63 | 110 | 54 | 7 | 178 | 132 | ||
| Hackney | 244,109 | 6,692 | 3,334 | 27.5 | 13.7 | 1.6 | 394 | 74 | 39 | 97 | 62 | 1 | 31 | 100 | 114 | ||
| Central Districts— | |||||||||||||||||
| St. Giles | 39,344 | 1,197 | 904 | 30.5 | 23.1 | 3.1 | 123 | 42 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 37 | 146 | |||
| St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 14,836 | 283 | 299 | 19.1 | 29. 2 | 2.1 | 31 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 212 | |||
| Strand | 28,896 | 685 | 639 | 23.8 | 22.2 | 2.4 | 70 | 20 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 24 | 199 | |||
| Holborn | 29,937 | 941 | 761 | 31.5 | 25.5 | 3.3 | 69 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 16 | 157 | |||
| Clerkenwell | 70,860 | 2,277 | 1,372 | 32.2 | 19.4 | 2.6 | 185 | 53 | 16 | 24 | 23 | 9 | 1 | 59 | 167 | ||
| St. Luke's | 52,000 | 1,919 | 972 | 37.0 | 18.8 | 2.1 | 110 | 26 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 38 | 126 | |||