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Strand (Westminster) 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Strand District, London]
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ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF STRAND DISTRICT
Death Rates in the Groups of Metropolitan Districts in 1900, compared with those in the Strand.
| LONDON. | ANNUAL RATE PER 1,000 LIVING. | Small.Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever, | Diarrhoea | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age per 1,000 Births. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births. | Deaths. | principal Zymotic Diseases. | ||||||||||||
| West | 23.7 | 16.5 | 1.83 | — | 0.47 | 0.06 | 0.23 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.13 | 0.00 | 0 70 | 1.47 | 164 |
| North | 26.3 | 16.4 | 1.97 | 0.00 | 0.36 | 0.06 | 0.29 | 0.46 | — | 0.17 | 0.00 | 0 .66 | 1.55 | 144 |
| Central | 27.8 | 22.2 | 2.13 | — | 0.47 | 0.11 | 0.23 | 0.51 | — | 0.12 | — | 0.68 | 2.81 | 169 |
| East | 35.4 | 21.8 | 2.88 | — | 0.56 | 0.10 | 0.44 | 0.56 | — | 0.17 | 0.00 | 1.02 | 201 | 177 |
| South | 29.2 | 17.1 | 2.19 | 0.00 | 0.36 | 0.01 | 0.37 | 0.45 | — | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.77 | 1.62 | 156 |
| All London | 28.5 | 18.3 | 2.19 | o.oo | 0 42 | 0.08 | 0 34 | 0.42 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.77 | 1.71 | 159 |
| Strand | 20.1 | 18.6 | 1.27 | . | 0.25 | 0.04 | 0.12 | 0.21 | . | 0.17 | — | 0 .46 | 3.32 | 124 |
| 22.7 | 15.7 | 1.33 | — | 0.50 | — | 0.08 | 0.08 | — | 0.25 | — | 0.41 | 2.66 | 131 | |
| Strand | 17.3 | 21.5 | 1.21 | — | — | 0.08 | 0.17 | 0.34 | — | 0.08 | — | 0.52 | 4.00 | 115 |
Note.—Where the deaths under any heading are too few to express as a rate per 1,000
within two places of decimals, 0 00 is inserted; where no deaths have occurred,
it is expressed thus —
The Strand District formed one of the Central Group.
Appended to this Report (pp. 30.37) are Tables required by
the Local Government Board, together with Tables showing the
causes of death in the Strand District, and in each of its Sub.
Districts at various groups of ages, and distinguishing males and
females, Tables V. to IX.
From these Tables it may be seen that 495 deaths occurred
in the District; 247 of these were of persons who did not belong
thereto, and 189 persons belonging to the District died outside
its bounds. 136 inhabitants of the District died in Poor Law
Institutions, 11 in Lunatic Asylums, 4 in Fever Hospitals and