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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Deaths belonging to the several Sanitary Areas of Registration London, Registered in the 52 Weeks of 1891.
Sanitary Aeeas.
Deaths.
Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases.
Deaths of Infants under
1 year of age.
Deaths under 1 year
to 1000
Births registered.
Small Pox.
Measles.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Whooping
Cough.
Typhus.
Enteric Fever.
Simple and 111defined
Fever.
Diarrhoea.
REGISTRATION LONDON
88,700
8
1,802
577
1,329
2,872
8
527
42
2,423
20,582
154
west.
Paddington
2,098
..
5
7
24
67
..
19
60
433
147
Kensington
3,123
..
29
15
28
84
..
23
1
89
645
168
Hammersmith
1,951
..
10
10
73
50
..
6
3
72
474
163
Fulham
1,794
..
26
8
19
71
..
6
..
106
579
167
Chelsea
2,005
..
18
8
16
65
..
9
1
59
421
149
St. George, Hanover Square
1,338
..
13
6
20
22
..
9
1
33
205
127
Westminster
1,386
..
9
5
11
20
1
9
..
39
237
157
St. James, Westminster
495
..
4
5
7
16
..
4
..
12
84
164
north.
Marylebone
3,413
..
34
22
26
68
..
12
..
87
623
138
Hampstead
846
..
3
7
13
34
..
6
1
12
158
104
Pancras
5,184
..
69
32
71
163
..
28
..
153
1,116
156
Islington
6,326
..
224
50
158
255
1
29
3
159
1,481
151
Hackney
4.099
..
71
29
79
138
9
41
139
990
149
central.
St. Giles
1,099
..
44
..
12
29
..
9
1
21
200
175
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
353
..
7
1
4
8
1
..
1
2
44
175
Strand
745
..
11
I
5
13
..
9
..
11
134
213
Holborn
1,023
..
57
5
9
50
..
9
..
14
209
228
Clerkenwell
1,659
..
114
26
28
52
..
13
..
54
377
170
St. Luke's
1,284
..
46
5
12
20
..
6
2
28
305
159
London City
957
..
7
3
13
9
..
..
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