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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 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 14.
London and the Metropolitan Boroughs.
Birth and Death Rates and Infantile Mortality Rate,
| Boroughs. | Estimated Population, 1923. | Birth Rate. | Death Rate. | Infantile Mortality Rate. | Deaths from | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enteric Fever. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Whooping-cough. | Diphtheria. | Diarrhæa and Enteritis (under 2 years). | |||||
| LONDON | 4,564109 | 18.7 | 12.1 | 69 | 52 | 1335 | 129 | 529 | 571 | 735 |
| Paddington | 146,200 | 17.1 | 12.9 | 78 | 1 | 82 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 32 |
| Kensington | 178,500 | 16.3 | 12.7 | 76 | 3 | 78 | 1 | 20 | 14 | 19 |
| Hammersmith | 133,600 | 18.0 | 12.1 | 72 | 2 | 33 | 7 | 16 | 18 | 15 |
| Fulham | 161,600 | 18.4 | 11.1 | 72 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 22 |
| Chelsea | 64,480 | 14.4 | 13.0 | 63 | 1 | 30 | ... | 6 | 3 | 14 |
| City of Westminster | 140,430 | 11.2 | 11.6 | 58 | ... | 26 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 4 |
| St. Marylebone | 105,400 | 14.6 | 13.1 | 78 | 2 | 51 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 22 |
| Hampstead | 87,410 | 13.6 | 11.4 | 52 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| St. Pancras | 214,400 | 19.0 | 12.9 | 73 | 2 | 74 | 12 | 46 | 22 | 57 |
| Islington | 336,600 | 20.0 | 12.3 | 66 | 4 | 103 | 10 | 58 | 31 | 51 |
| Stoke Newington | 52,820 | 16.6 | 11.4 | 56 | ... | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Hackney | 226,400 | 18.7 | 11.2 | 60 | ... | 31 | 7 | 17 | 34 | 26 |
| Holborn | 43,376 | 13.4 | 11.9 | 83 | ... | 10 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| Finsbury | 77,230 | 21.6 | 14.1 | 78 | ... | 45 | 2 | 25 | 14 | 12 |
| City of London | 13,480 | 7.0 | 11.5 | 115 | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... |
| Shoreditch | 106,200 | 25.1 | 13.5 | 83 | 1 | 69 | 3 | 28 | 15 | 26 |
| Bethnal Green | 118,700 | 22.3 | 12.2 | 78 | 11 | 44 | 4 | 15 | 29 | 29 |
| Stepney | 253,850 | 21.4 | 12.2 | 75 | 6 | 59 | 2 | 39 | 23 | 78 |
| Poplar | 166,400 | 23.1 | 12.0 | 71 | 1 | 38 | 6 | 42 | 21 | 28 |
| Southwark | 187,464 | 22.5 | 14.2 | 71 | 1 | 77 | 10 | 17 | 49 | 44 |
| Bermondsey | 121,700 | 24.4 | 13.5 | 77 | 1 | 52 | 6 | 13 | 27 | 27 |
| Lambeth | 308,500 | 19.2 | 12.5 | 66 | 1 | 87 | 12 | 24 | 52 | 55 |
| Battersea | 170,600 | 18.4 | 11.7 | 62 | 2 | 50 | 3 | 18 | 27 | 23 |
| Wandsworth | 336,100 | 14.9 | 11.0 | 56 | ... | 71 | 7 | 26 | 27 | 23 |
| Camberwell | 272,300 | 19.0 | 11.4 | 70 | 2 | 78 | 7 | 18 | 51 | 50 |
| Deptford | 114,900 | 20.7 | 11.9 | 74 | 3 | 34 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| Greenwich | 102,777 | 20.2 | 11.4 | 74 | 1 | 31 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 23 |
| Lewisham | 182,400 | 16.7 | 10.4 | 47 | 2 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 12 |
| Woolwich | 140,000 | 18.1 | 10.8 | 65 | 1 | 25 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 11 |
Primary Notifications relate to patients who have not previously been notified in this or former years, either on Form A or on Form B, in
the area to which the return relates. Any additional notification of a case which has been previously notified in the area is to be regarded as
duplicate. (Note—No primary notifications should be made on Form C.)
A School Medical Inspector, or the Medical Officer of Health of a county, county borough, or other district, if acting as a School Medical
Inspector, is required to notify on Form B all cases of Tuberculosis discovered in the course of inspection of children attending public
elementary schools whether or not these have previously been notified.
Form C. Relates to patients admitted to Sanatoria or Poor Law Institutions.