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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 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Estimated population (1928) 181,300
Population (Census, 1921) 184,404
Area (acres) 1,131
Number of inhabited houses (1921) 19,050
Number of families or separate occupiers (1921) 46,727
Rateable value £1,446,164
Sum represented by penny rate £5,880
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
The district is chiefly a residential working class one, with a number
of factories, business premises, warehouses and wharves.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Births—Legitimate 3,312
Illegitimate 164
Total 3,476
Birth Rate, 19.2
Deaths 2,310
Death Rate, 12.7
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of childbirth—
From sepsis 6
Other causes 5
Deaths of infants under 1 year of age per 1,000 births 70
Legitimate 225
Illegitimate 18
Total 243
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 72
Do. Whooping Cough (all ages) 26
Do. Diarrhoea under 2 years of age 28