Health and welfare spending, health indicators and election data for London's Metropolitan Boroughs, 1922-37

Seymour, J and Gorsky, M. 2016. Health and welfare spending, health indicators and election data for London's Metropolitan Boroughs, 1922-37. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.103.

Seymour, J and Gorsky, M. Health and welfare spending, health indicators and election data for London's Metropolitan Boroughs, 1922-37 [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2016. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.103.

Seymour, J and Gorsky, M (2016). Health and welfare spending, health indicators and election data for London's Metropolitan Boroughs, 1922-37. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.103.

Methods

Description of data capture

Copied by hand from the following text sources: Local Taxation Returns; Local Government Financial Statistics; Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for England and Wales; The Registrar-General’s Statistical Review of England and Wales; A. Willis & J. Woollard, 20th Century Local Election Results, Volume 1: Election Results for the London County Council (1889 – 1961) and London Metropolitan Boroughs (1900 – 1928); Volume 2: Election Results for London Metropolitan Boroughs (1931–1962) (Plymouth, 2003).

Data capture method

Aggregation

Data Collection Period

From	To
1 October 2012	2016

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

22 April 2016

Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
51.6904	0.240326	51.2816	-0.498505

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Seymour, J and Gorsky, M
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Public Health and Policy > Dept of Public Health, Environments and Society
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Projects

Funders

Project	Funder	Grant Number	Funder URI
Metropolitan Medical Officers: local leadership, democracy and shaping environments for health in London, 1919-1939	Wellcome Trust	099835	http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010269

Additional Information

Date Deposited	03 May 2016 09:54
Last Modified	09 Feb 2022 18:48
Publisher	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Downloads

Data / Code

MetroBoroughsData_XLSX Download

Filename: MetroBoroughsData_XLSX.xlsx

Description: Expenditure on aspects of health and welfare by London’s 28 Metropolitan Boroughs, 1923- 1937, along with health indicators (crude death rates, infant mortality rates), and Borough election results

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