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 Limehouse]
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the boundaries of your District. To the remainder must be added
your proportion of the deaths of residents in your District, which
occurred in Public Institutions outside it, viz., 258. Thus,
1,279 — 109 = 1,170 + 258 = 1,428, which represents the total
mortality in your District during the year 1881.
The numbers, both of Births and Deaths, were above the
average of the last ten years, while the marriages were considerably
below the average.
The Birth rate for the year was 37 per 1,000, being a little
more than 1 per 1,000 above the average of the last ten years.
The Death rate was 24.3 per 1,000, for the year being .7 per
1,000 above the average of the last ten years.
The Births registered in London in the year were at the
rate of 34.7 per 1,000 persons living.
The Deaths registered in London in the year were in the
proportion of 21.2 to 1,000 inhabitants.
Of every 100 deaths registered in the District, 23.2 were those
of children under one year of age, being 3 per cent, less than the
average number for the last ten years.
The per-centage of deaths of Children under one year to
registered births was 14.8.