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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Southwark 1919

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 2.Number of Births belonging to each ward, with the Birth-rates, also the Infantile Mortalityand Zymotic Rate in the several wards for 1919.

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 1919.

WARD.Births.Infantile Mortality.Zymotic Rates in the Wards.
Males.Females.Total.Birthrate.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Enteric Fever.Diar. rhæa.Phthisis.
St. Mary24222847022.387—0.14—0.230.09—0.331.94
St. Paul19818738520.765—0.05—0.050.10—0.321.29
St. Peter18920139022.448—0.11—0.630.06—0.341.32
St. John28424352726.3106—0.15—0.35——0.551.50
Trinity18119837925.0118-0.26—0.26—0.060.981.91
All Saints26524450927.978—0.05—0.220.05—0.711.20
St. Michael23023646621.8103—0.040.090.14——0.742.0
St. Jude13510524018.7146———0.150.080.080.802.1
St. George25125150229.595—0.180.060.060.12—0.762.1
Christchurch667013615.1161———0.11——0.441.77
St. Saviour848817218.598—0.100.100.320.100.100.322.0
Borough2,1252,0514,17623.295—0.100.020.230.050.010.571.72