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Death-rates1 per 100,000 from all
causes and from various causes in each sanitary area, 1900 (365 days).
Measles.
Rheumatic
fever.
Cancer.
Tabes
mesenterica.
Tubercular
meningitis.
Phthisis.
Other
tubercular
diseases.
Pneumonia.
Other
respiratory
diseases.
All
other
causes.
All
causes.
West—
Paddington
38
9
108
14
28
118
14
124
188
996
1,637
Kensington
57
9
93
11
20
119
28
111
197
943
1,588
Hammersmith
85
8
86
17
25
168
24
128
194
978
1,713
Fulham
61
6
85
18
22
157
24
160
203
1,030
1,766
Chelsea
35
9
105
16
28
177
19
166
255
1,048
1,858
St. George, Hanover-sq.
8
6
96
9
13
137
21
110
196
850
1,446
Westminster
38
6
86
11
17
245
29
224
293
1,088
2,037
St. James, Westminster
28
—
128
14
9
151
23
133
151
940
1,577
North—
Marylebone
36
15
129
19
26
202
25
135
271
1,108
1,966
Hampstead
27
4
98
4
9
85
21
68
107
711
1,134
Pancras
53
8
102
17
32
199
24
186
206
1,145
1,972
Islington
48
7
96
16
23
166
19
134
204
1,005
1,718
Stoke Newington
9
6
108
9
15
105
35
82
123
833
1,325
Hackney
16
9
87
24
23
121
19
131
169
1,062
1,661
Central—
St. Giles
31
—
117
20
40
319
11
185
191
1,024
1,938
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
-
8
59
—
8
229
8
161
229
1,067
1,769
Strand
24
10
101
14
43
347
24
174
386
1,143
2,266
Holborn
70
7
93
30
40
282
40
216
395
1,412
2,585
Clerken well
61
2
62
19
34
261
22
233
309
1,207
2,210
St. Luke
79
5
97
11
32
347
21
226
513
1,534
2,865
London. City of
15
4
102
4
33
230
15
182
252
1,333
2,170
East—
Shoreditch
65
6
68
24
41
193
36
170
320
1,294
2,217
Bethnal- green
51
11
84
21
39
216
27
200
345
1,202
2,196
Whitechapel
41
10
78
18
33
236
38
228
247
1,091
2,020
St. George in the East
41
-
61
20
35
262
70
254
313
1,380
2,436
Limehouse
144
7
74
17
31
249
48
241
246
1,584
2,641
Mile-end Old-town
53
9
73
17
28
178
29
209
229
1,244
2,069
Poplar
46
8
83
27
33
182
23
188
279
1,395
2,264
South—
St. Saviour, Southwark
43
13
119
43
34
315
26
247
353
1,361
2,554
St. George, Southwark
58
10
66
41
46
366
36
346
364
1,406
2,739
Newington
57
10
96
31
25
227
21
212
307
1,261
2,247
St. Olave
56
9
93
—
28
270
19
233
270
1,172
2,150
Bermondsey
53
8
86
25
35
202
29
277
271
1,405
2,391
Rotherhithe
106
15
54
39
29
121
26
364
307
1,253
2,314
Lambeth
23
7
100
15
31
174
23
141
237
1,079
1,830
Battersea
46
9
68
12
21
153
26
150
228
1,063
1,776
Wandsworth
36
9
76
11
22
112
19
102
143
891
1,421
Camberwell
16
10
85
15
27
143
15
118
214
1,058
1,701
Greenwich
33
8
93
22
20
149
17
112
220
1,129
1,803
Lewisham
17
6
89
13
17
100
16
101
129
896
1,384
Woolwich
72
12
65
14
34
245
29
185
240
1,330
2,226
Lee
13
4
76
11
13
80
20
106
91
918
1,332
Plumstead
70
13
87
21
13
145
25
114
132
979
1,599
London
43
8
89
18
26
173
24
157
227
1,100
1.865
In this table where — is inserted no death occurred.
Principal Zymotic Diseases.
The number of deaths in the Administrative County of London from the principal zymotic
diseases, viz., smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus, enteric, and ill-defined fevers and
diarrhoea during 1900 (52 weeks'* was 10.046. giving an annual death rate of 2.23 per 1,000 living.
The death rates in each year since 1890 have been as follows—
Year
Death rate from principal
zymotic diseases.
1891
2.271
1892
2.801
1893
3.041
1894
2.651
1895
2.621
1896
3.ll1
1897
2.581
1898
2.801
1899
2.491
1900
2.231
1 See footnote (1), page 5.