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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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2.—Births, 1933.
| Metropolitan borough. | Live births. | Birth.rate per 1,000 population. | Illegitimate births per cent, of total births. | Stillbirths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate. | Illegitimate. | Total. | ||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 70 | 7 | 77 | 7.5 | 9.1 | 5 | |
| Battersea | 2,162 | 101 | 2,263 | 14.7 | 4 5 | 65 |
| Bermondsey | 1,467 | 33 | 1,500 | 14.0 | 2.2 | 52 |
| Bethnal Green | 1,450 | 44 | 1,494 | 14.3 | 2.9 | 38 |
| Camberwell | 3,148 | 99 | 3,247 | 13.3 | 3.1 | 106 |
| Chelsea | 577 | 48 | 625 | 10.6 | 7.7 | 17 |
| Deptford | 1,469 | 51 | 1,520 | 14.8 | 3.4 | 56 |
| Finsbury | 954 | 56 | 1,010 | 15.2 | 5.5 | 24 |
| Fulham | 1,806 | 132 | 1,938 | 131 | 6.8 | 65 |
| Greenwich | 1,292 | 47 | 1,339 | 13.7 | 3.5 | 40 |
| Hackney | 2,898 | 106 | 3,004 | 14.0 | 3.5 | 113 |
| Hammersmith | 1,706 | 121 | 1,827 | 13.9 | 6.6 | 66 |
| Hampstead | 776 | 88 | 864 | 9.6 | 10.2 | 29 |
| Holborn | 288 | 54 | 342 | 9.5 | 15.8 | 18 |
| Islington | 4,345 | 226 | 4,571 | 14.5 | 4.9 | 159 |
| Kensington | 1,964 | 201 | 2,165 | 120 | 9.3 | 75 |
| Lambeth | 3,703 | 239 | 3,942 | 13.6 | 6.1 | 147 |
| Lewisham | 2,607 | 95 | 2,702 | 12.2 | 3.5 | 86 |
| Paddington | 1,661 | 245 | 1,906 | 13.4 | 12.9 | 95 |
| Poplar | 2,236 | 59 | 2,295 | 15.4 | 2.6 | 59 |
| St. Marylebone | 802 | 114 | 916 | 9.7 | 12.4 | 36 |
| St. Pancras | 2,359 | 232 | 2,591 | 13.6 | 90 | 88 |
| Shoreditch | 1,443 | 51 | 1,494 | 160 | 3.4 | 55 |
| South wark | 2,218 | 111 | 2,329 | 141 | 4.8 | 85 |
| Stepney | 3,198 | 120 | 3,318 | 151 | 3.6 | 101 |
| Stoke Newington | 613 | 33 | 646 | 12.6 | 5.1 | 20 |
| Wandsworth | 3,632 | 215 | 3,847 | 110 | 5.6 | 142 |
| Westminster (City) | 971 | 143 | 1,114 | 8.8 | 12.8 | 38 |
| Woolwich | 1,789 | 68 | 1,857 | 12.7 | 3.7 | 54 |
| Total, Administrative County of London | 53,604 | 3,139 | 56,743 | 13.2 | 5.5 | 1,934 |