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 Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 2.
Number of Births belonging to each ward, with the Birth-rates, also the Infantile Mortality
and Zymotic Rate in the several wards for 1918.
| WARD. | Births. | Infantile Mortality. | Zymotic Rates in the Wards. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males. | Females. | Total. | Birthrate. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. . | Enteric Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | ||
| St. Mary | 197 | 179 | 376 | 19.8 | 103 | - | 0.89 | 0.10 | 0.21 | 0.79 | - | 0.26 | 2.74 |
| St. Paul | 133 | 149 | 282 | 16.8 | 134 | — | 0.42 | 0.06 | 0.18 | 0.72 | - | 0.42 | 1.97 |
| St. Peter | 191 | 178 | 369 | 23.6 | 92 | — | 1.02 | 0.06 | 0.70 | 0.70 | 0.07 | 0.38 | 2.04 |
| St. John | 204 | 179 | 383 | 21.2 | 161 | — | 1.05 | 0.05 | 0.16 | 0.50 | — | 0.61 | 211 |
| Trinity | 153 | 169 | 322 | 23.6 | 149 | — | 0.66 | 0.07 | 0.07 | 1.40 | — | 0.80 | 3.52 |
| All Saints | 223 | 217 | 440 | 26.7 | 93 | — | 0.66 | 0.06 | 0.18 | 0.42 | — | 0.66 | 1.94 |
| St. Michael | 182 | 202 | 384 | 19.9 | 138 | — | 1.30 | — | 0.31 | 1.09 | — | 0.26 | 1.97 |
| St. Jude | 88 | 96 | 184 | 15.8 | 195 | — | 1.29 | 0.34 | 0.25 | 0.51 | — | 0.86 | 2.67 |
| St. George | 225 | 180 | 405 | 26.4 | 98 | — | 0.78 | 013 | 0.45 | 0.84 | — | 0.32 | 2.74 |
| Christchurch | 55 | 63 | 118 | 14.5 | 144 | — | 1.23 | 0.12 | — | 0.98 | — | 0.98 | 2.58 |
| St. Saviour | 88 | 99 | 187 | 22.3 | 112 | — | 0.47 | — | - | 0.95 | — | 0.23 | 2.38 |
| Borough | 1,739 | 1,711 | 3,450 | 21.3 | 124 | — | 0.89 | 0.08 | 0.25 | 0.79 | — | 0.50 | 2.38 |