Table 1.

 Baseline characteristics of intervention and control wards. Values are means (standard deviations)^*

	Intervention (n=20 wards)	Control (n=20 wards)
Jarman score*	34.8 (9.4)	34.3 (8.5)
No of households†	3670 (1053)	3702 (781)
Population†	8385 (2229)	7998 (1669)
% of households with children <5 years*	6.7 (1.1)	6.4 (1.3)
% of single parent households*	13.4 (7.7)	11.6 (7.1)

^*Source: London Boroughs of Camden and Islington, from 1991 census data collected by Office for National Statistics, London, UK. 

^†Projection from 1991 census data by the London Research Centre.