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Southwark 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS.
Population of the Borough at the 1901 Census 206,180
Estimated population at the middle of 1901 206,219
Total Births in 1901 6,875
Total Deaths do. 4,413
Birth Rate for London, 1901 28-8
Do. Southwark, 1901 33-3
Death Rate for London, 1901 171
Do. Southwark, 1901 21.4
Total cases of Infectious Disease notified in 1901—
Smallpox.
Scarlet
Fever.
Enteric
Fever.
Diphtheria.
Erysipelas.
Puerperal
Fever.
Membranous
Croup.
Total.
89
1301
135
549
242
5
9
2330*
Deaths in the Sanitary Area from the principal Zymotic
Diseases, compared with London as a whole, for 1901.
Total,
Excluding
Phthisis.
Small Pox.
Measles.
Scarlet
Fever.
Diphtheria.
Whooping
Cough.
Typhus
Fever.
Enteric
Fever.
Diarrhæa.
Phthisis.
Deaths under
1 year to 1,000
Births
registered.
14
161
54
53
98
...
18
222
516
...
The Zymotic Rate per 1000 an d Infant Rate.
2.98
.06
.78
.26
.25
.47
...
.09
1.07
2.50
167
The Zymotic Rate for the whole of London and Infant Rate.
2.21
.05
.43
1.12
.29
.35
...
.11
.86
1.64
148