London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

London County Council 1905

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

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

64
Death-rates obtaining among persons resident in the Council's buildings.
The following death-rates obtaining among tenants of the Council's dwellings relate to buildings
which were occupied during the whole of the year 1905. The population thus dealt with comprised 19,035
persons, and the death-rate at "all ages" after correction for age and sex distribution was 11.7 per 1,000
living compared with 15.1 for London. The factor for age and sex correction has been calculated on the
age and sex distribution of the population which obtained in 1903; it has been assumed therefore, for the
purposes of the following table, that the age and sex constitution of the population in these buildings
has remained unaltered since 1903 :—

Table: Death-rates of persons resident in the County Council's dwellings.

Death-rates of persons resident in the County Council's dwellings.

Cause of death.Death rate per 1000 living.
Council's dwellings.London.
All causes all ages11.715.1
,, „ age 0—535.847.6
„ „ 5-203.32.5
,, ,, ,, 20 and upwards8.915.1
Diarrhœa1.20.7
Principal Epidemic Diseases (excluding Diarrhœa)1.31.0
Phthisis1.11.4
Tubercular diseases other than Phthisis0.50.5
Bronchitis1.01.3
Pneumonia1.21.5

Table: Houses let in lodgings. The following table shows the number of houses let in lodgings on the registers of the several sanitary authorities, and for most districts the number of inspections of such houses. The total number of houses on the register at the end of 1905 in London was 22,284.

Houses let in lodgings. The following table shows the number of houses let in lodgings on the registers of the several sanitary authorities, and for most districts the number of inspections of such houses. The total number of houses on the register at the end of 1905 in London was 22,284.

Sanitary area.Number of places.No. of Inspections, 1905.Notices, 1905.Prosecutions, 1905. †
On register at end of 1904.Added in 1905.Removed in 1905.On register at end of 1905.(a) For overcrowding.(b) For other conditions.Total.
Paddington1,031140211,1507,758363,0193,05537
Kensington2,07037—2,1077,757501,1051,1551
Hammersmith2,2293483112,266242
Fulham329——32969343176219—
Chelsea602——602161————
Westminster, City of1,65912301,6411,578
St. Marylebone——7581,345
Hampstead908*199—199—————
St. Pancras2,000205132,1925,637
Islington749143189111,906417808213
Stoke Newington21910363259—
Hackney463—7538812210112122
Holborn7677157591,46520167187—
Finsbury1,1314571,1697,973592,7102,76912
London, City of360343465
Shoreditch25726—2833561101
Bethnal Green44527174551,088
Stepney2,6611871762,6723,6113351,0571,39235
Poplar7681148772,558275565834
Southward1,142120211,241
Bermondsey2184122159610194204—
Lambeth372——372
Battersea121——121—5454—
Wandsworth21776218400102542642
Camberwell2281728217184841772611
Deptford18980—269—————
Greenwich—3—33————
Lewisham17661724165864—
Woolwich2354111265594492713201

Text

Copy text to clipboard

* The registration of these houses was held to be invalid.
† Of these prosecutions, it is stated that 9 in Stepney and in Camberwell wore on account of overcrowding.