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 Camberwell]
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Table showing the Birth Rates, Death Rates and Infantile Mortality Rates in the 29 Metropolitan Cities and Boroughs in 1929.
| Births per 1,000 Population. | Deaths per 1,000 Population. | Infantile Deaths per 1,000 Births. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of London | 7.4 | Lewisham | 11.5 | Lewisham | 44 |
| Holborn | 10.2 | Woolwich | 12.6 | Stoke Newington | 47 |
| City of Westminster | 10.4 | Wandsworth | 12.8 | Hampstead | 54 |
| Hampstead | 11.4 | St. Marylebone | 13.2 | Hackney | 56 |
| Chelsea | 11.7 | Bethnal Green | 13.3 | Wandsworth | 61 |
| St. Marylebone | 11.9 | Deptford | 13.3 | Battersea | 62 |
| Wandsworth | 13.0 | Greenwich | 13.3 | City of London | 62 |
| Kinsington | 14.4 | Fulham | 13.4 | Hammersmith | 62 |
| Paddington | 14.9 | Stoke Newington | 13.4 | Woolwich | 62 |
| Fulham | 15.2 | Hampstead | 13.5 | Bethnal Green | 64 |
| Lambeth | 67 | ||||
| St. Pancras | 15.5 | Stepney | 13.6 | ||
| Lambeth | 15.6 | Hammersmith | 13.7 | Chelsea | 70 |
| Lewisham | 15.7 | Hackney | 13.9 | Greenwich | 70 |
| Greenwich | 15.8 | City of London | 14.0 | Bermondsey | 71 |
| Hammersmith | 15.8 | Battersea | 14.2 | Fulham | 72 |
| Hackney | 15.9 | Poplar | 14.2 | Islington | 73 |
| Stoke Newington | 16.1 | Bermondsey | 14.5 | Holborn | 74 |
| Battersea | 16.2 | Islington | 14.8 | Finsbury | 75 |
| Woolwich | 16.3 | City of Westminster | 14.8 | Poplar | 75 |
| Deptford | 16.8 | Lambeth | 14.9 | Deptford | 76 |
| Islington | 17.2 | St. Pancras | 15.3 | City of Westminster | 77 |
| Stepney | 17.2 | Kensington | 15.4 | St. Marylebone | 77 |
| South wark | 18.1 | Paddington | 15.4 | Southwark | 81 |
| Bethnal Green | 18.4 | Holborn | 15.6 | St. Pancras | 83 |
| Poplar | 19.1 | South wark | 15.6 | Kensington | 84 |
| Bermondsey | 19.8 | Chelsea | 15.7 | Shoreditch | 88 |
| Shoreditch | 20.6 | Finsbury | 16.0 | Stepney | 89 |
| Finsbury | 21.2 | Shoreditch | 16.0 | Paddington | 101 |