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 Paddington]
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TABLE II.
Table showing the Annual Birth Rate, Rate of Mortality, Death Rates among Children, and Deaths in Public
Institutions, for the Year 1877 and 10 Years preceding.
Birth Rate per 1000 of the Population. | Annual Rate of Mortality, per 1000 living. | Deaths of Children under 1 year: per centage of Total Deaths. | Per centage of Deaths of Children under 1 year to Registered Births | Deaths of Children under 5 years: per centage of Total Deaths. | Total Number of Deaths in Public Institutions. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Saint Mary's Hospital. | The Lock Hospital. | ||||||
1876 | 27.0 | 163 | 23.7 | 14.3 | 39.0 | 219 | 1 |
1875 | 27.8 | 17.6 | 22.3 | 14.1 | 38.4 | 141* | 3 |
1874 | 28.6 | 19.1 | 214 | 1 | |||
1873 | 28.0 | 19.5 | 198 | 7 | |||
1872 | 28.7 | 17.8 | 178 | 5 | |||
1871 | 28.8 | 19.9 | 192 | 2 | |||
1870 | 28.5 | 20.5 | 178 | 10 | |||
1869 | 29.4 | 19.1 | 187 | 5 | |||
1868 | 30.6 | 19.6 | 209 | 7 | |||
1867 | 29.8 | 20.5 | 172 | 3 | |||
Average of 10 years, 1867-1876. | 28.7 | 19.0 | 189 | 4 |