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London County Council 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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The following table shows the smallpox cases notified, deaths, case-rates, and death-rates in the year 1905, the case-rates in the decennium 1895-1904, and the death-rates in the period 1901-4 in the several sanitary areas of the Administrative County—
| Sanitary area. | Notified Cases, 1905. | Case-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Deaths, 1905. | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1895-1904. | 1905. | 1901-1904. | 1905. | |||
| Paddington | 2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | — | 0.04 | — |
| Kensington | — | 0.l | — | — | 0.02 | — |
| Hammersmith | — | 0.1 | — | — | 0.06 | — |
| Fulham | – | 0.1 | — | — | 0.03 | — |
| Chelsea | – | 0.1 | — | — | 0.03 | — |
| Westminster, City of.. | 2 | 0.2 | o.o | — | 0.08 | — |
| St. Marylebone | — | 0.3 | — | — | 0.06 | — |
| Hampstead | — | o.o | — | — | 0.02 | — |
| St. Pancras | 3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | — | 0.13 | — |
| Islington | 3 | 0.1 | o.o | 1 | 0.05 | o.oo |
| Stoke Newington | 1 | 0.2 | o.o | — | 0.05 | — |
| Hackney | 4 | 0.2 | o.o | 2 | 0.08 | 0.01 |
| Holborn | 1 | 0.8 | o.o | — | 0.33 | — |
| Finsbury | 1 | 0.3 | o.o | — | 0.11 | — |
| London, City of | — | 0.2 | — | — | 0.09 | — |
| Shoreditch | 2 | 0.4 | o.o | 2 | 0.17 | 0.02 |
| Bethnal-green | 4 | 0.7 | o.o | — | 0.14 | — |
| Stepney | 13 | 0.7 | o.o | 1 | 0.24 | o.oo |
| Poplar.. | — | 0.5 | — | — | 0.16 | — |
| Southwark | — | 0.4 | — | — | 0.11 | — |
| Bermondsey | — | 0.3 | — | — | 0.09 | — |
| Lambeth | — | 0.2 | — | — | 0.05 | — |
| Battersea | — | 0.2 | — | — | 0.04 | — |
| Wandsworth | 1 | 0.1 | o.o | — | 0.03 | — |
| Camberwell | 13 | 0.2 | o.o | — | 0.07 | — |
| Deptford | 2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | — | 0.08 | — |
| Greenwich | 4 | 0.1 | o.o | — | 0.06 | — |
| Lewisham | 9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 4 | 0.02 | 0.03 |
| Woolwich | 7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | — | 0.08 | — |
| Port of London | 2 | — | — | — | ||
In this table 0 0 indicates that the cases were too few to give a rate of 005 ; where no cases occurred — is
inserted.
The following table shows the number of cases of smallpox notified in London in each week of the year 1905—
| Week ended. | No. of cases notified. | Week ended. | No. of cases notified. | Week ended. | No. of cases notified. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 7 | 1 | May 13 | 2 | September 9 | _ |
| „ 14 | 1 | „ 20 | 2 | 16 | — |
| „ 21 | 1 | „ 27 | 3 | 23 | — |
| „ 28 | 1 | June 3 | 1 | 30 | — |
| February 4 | — | „ 10 | 2 | October 7 | — |
| „ 11 | 1 | „ 17 | 3 | 14 | 1 |
| „ 18 | 3 | „ 24 | 1 | 21 | — |
| „ 25 | 1 | July 1 | 1 | 28 | — |
| March 4 | 9 | 8 | 2 | November 4 | — |
| 11 | 1 | „ 15 | 1 | 11 | — |
| 18 | 11 | „ 22 | 1 | 18 | — |
| 25 | 3 | „ 29 | — | 25 | — |
| April 1 | 1 | Aug. 5 | 2 | December 2 | — |
| 8 | 5 | „ 12 | — | „ 9 | — |
| 15 | — | „ 19 | — | 16 | — |
| 22 | 6 | „ 26 | — | 23 | — |
| 29 | 4 | Sept. 2 | — | 30 | — |
| May 6 | 3 |
The occurrences of actual cases of small-pox in London in 1905 may be thus summarised—
In January three oases occurred, two in Woolwich and one in Lewisham. The Woolwich
cases were the last of a series of seven cases, five of which had occurred in the preceding year due to
infection from a man the nature of whose illness had not at first been recognised; the Lewisham case
1 See footnote (1), page 9.