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London County Council 1907

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

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The following table shows that the London smallpox death-rate was in the decennium 18971906
higher than that of any of the under-mentioned foreign towns except Paris, Brussels, and
St. Petersburg, and in 1907 Paris, Vienna and St. Petersburg were the only towns which had an
appreciable death-rate from smallpox:—

Table: Smallpox—Death-rates per1,000persons living.

Smallpox—Death-rates per1,000persons living.

Town.1897-1906.1907.Town.1897-1906.1907.
London0.031—St. Petersburg0.080.02
Paris0.040.02Berlin0.000.00
Brussels0.03—Vienna0.000.02
Amsterdam0.00—Rome0.000.00
Copenhagen——New York0.020.00
Stockholm0.00—

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In this table 0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.005; where no death occurred—is
inserted.
The following table shows the smallpox cases notified, deaths, case-rates, and death-rates in
the year 1907, the case-rates in the decennium 1897-1906, and the death-rates in the period 1902-6
in the several sanitary areas of the Administrative County—

Table: Smallpox—Case-rates and death-rates in sanitary areas.

Smallpox—Case-rates and death-rates in sanitary areas.

Sanitary area.Notified cases, 1907 (52 weeks).Case-rate per 1,000 persons living.Deaths, 1907. (52 weeks).Death-rate per 1,000 persons living.
1897-1906.1907.1902-6.1907.
Paddington—0.1—0.03—
Kensington—0.1-—0.01—
Hammersmith—0.1-—0.02—
Fulham—0.1-—0.02—
Chelsea—0.1——_—0.02—
Westminster, City of—0.2—0.05—
St. Marylebone10.2o-o—0.04—
Hampstead10.1o-o—0.01—
St. Pancras10.3o-o—0.07—
Islington—0.1-—0.03—
Stoke Newington—0.2-—0.03—
Hackney—0.2——0.06—
Holborn—0.8——0.16—
Finsbury—0.3-—0.08—
London, City of20.2V 0-1—0.05—
Shoreditch10.4o-o—0.13—
Bethnal Green—0.6-—0.11—
Stepney—0.6-—0.17—
Poplar10.5o-o—0.11—
Southwark—0.3_—0.07—
Bermondsey—0.3-—0.05—
Lambeth—0.2—0.04—
Battersea—0.20.1—0.03—
Wandsworth—0.10.1—0.02—
Camberwell—0.20.1—0.05—
Deptford—0.20.1—0.06—
Greenwich—0.10.1—0.04—
Lewisham—0.10.1—0.02—
Woolwich—0.20.1—0.06—
Port of London1———
London80.20.0—0.061—

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In this table 0.0 indicates that the cases were too few to give a rate of 0.05; whore no cases occurred—is
inserted.
The following table shows the number of cases of smallpox notified in London in each week
of the year 1907—
1 See footnote (1), page 8.