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London County Council 1899

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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The following table shows that the London whooping cough death rate exceeded the death
rates of all the undermentioned foreign towns both in the period 1889-98 and in the year 1899—

Table: Whooping-cough—Death rates per1,000living.

Whooping-cough—Death rates per1,000living.

Towns.1889-98.1899.Towns.1889-98.1899.
London0.5410.381St. Petersburg0.230.27
Paris0.160.16Berlin.0.280.33
Brussels0.180.10Vienna0.090.12
Amsterdam0.340.21Rome ..0.070.09
Copenhagen0.410.28New York0.230.15
Stockholm0.230.13

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In the distribution of the disease during the year 1899 the rate of mortality was highest in the
eastern group of districts (0'45) and lowest in the central group (0'27). Of the several sanitary
districts Newington had the highest death rate (0'84) and St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Strand, and
St. Olave the lowest, no deaths from this disease being registered in these districts. During the
first quarter of the year the mortality was highest in the western group of districts and lowest in
the central group; during the second quarter the rate of mortality was highest in the eastern
Croup and lowest in the central group; during the third quarter the rate of mortality was highest
in the eastern group and lowest in the western group; and during the fourth quarter the rate of
mortality was again highest in the eastern group and lowest in the somhern group.

Table: The death rate of each sanitary district m 1899 and the preceding ten years is shown, in the following table-

The death rate of each sanitary district m 1899 and the preceding ten years is shown, in the following table-

Sanitary district.Deaths in 1899.Death rate per 1,000 living.Sanitary district.Deaths in 1899.Death rate per 1,000 living.
1889-98.1899.1889-98.1899.
Paddington43.38.33Shoreditch47.79.39
Kensington61.35.35Bethnal-green45.72.35
Hammersmith46.49.42Whitechapel24.42.30
Fulham54.61.41St. George-in-the-East25.57.52
Chelsea71.51.74Limehouse31.90.53
St. George, Hanover-square14.28.17Mile-eud Old-town Poplar48 106.62 .68.43 .62
Westminster5.46.10St. Saviour, Southwark10.65.41
St. James6.33.28St. George, Southwark32.80.53
Marylebone34.41.24Newington104.69.84
Hampstead11.29.14St. Olave-.70-
Pancras142.52.59Bermondsey29.68.34
Islington170.54.49Rotherhithe14.62.34
Stoke Newington4.49.11Lambeth130.54.42
Hackney48.22Battersea52.61.30
St. Giles1.44.3Wandsworth65.43.31
St. Martin - in - the -.34-Camberwell86.55.33
FieldsGreenwich53.57.29
Strand-.43-Lewisham23.37.20
Holborn13.63.44Woolwich13.45.31
Clerkenwell30.67.46Lee9.33.22
St. Luke14.64.34Plumstead10.4616
London, City of5.22.18London1.728542.382

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Typhus.
The deaths from typhus in the Administrative County of London during the year 1899
numbered two. The death rates from this disease in 1899 and previous periods are as follows—

Table: Typhus—death rates per1,000living.

Typhus—death rates per1,000living.

Period.Death-rate per 1,000 living.Period.Death-rate per 1,000 living.
1871-80.0551895.0012
1881-90.0081896.0012
1891.00221897.0002
1892.00321898.0012
1893.00121899.0002
1894.0012

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1 See footnote (2), page 3.
2 See footnote (1), page 3.