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London County Council 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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The phthisis death.rate since 1850 (corrected for differences in the age constitution of the
population) in relation to the mean death.rate of the period 1851.1907 (males and females) is shown
in diagram XX.
The following table shows the crude phthisis death.rate corrected for differences in the age and
sex constitution of the various sanitary districts. The factors for correction, also shown in the table,
have been calculated by applying the population at each age and for each sex of each of the London
sanitary districts to the death.rates at each age and for each sex obtaining for London in the five years
1897.1901:—
Phthisis—Crude and corrected death.rates per 1,000 persons living, in the County of London and the several
sanitary districts.
| Sanitary area. | Standard death. rate. 1 | Factor for correction for age and sex distri. tribution. | Crude death.rate. | Corrected death.rate. • | Comparative mortality figure. (London 1,000.) i — | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-6. | 1907. | 1902-6. | 1907. | 1902-6. | 1907. | |||
| London | 1.74 | 1.00000 | 1.532 | l.402 | 1.53 | # 1.40 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Paddington | 1.80 | 0.96659 | 1.08 | 1.09 | 1.04 | 1.05 | 680 | 750 |
| Kensington | 1.78 | 0.97419 | 1.28 | 1.03 | 1.25 | 1.00 | 817 | 714 |
| Hammersmith | 1.74 | 0.99600 | 1.34 | 1.20 | 1.33 | 1.20 | 869 | 857 |
| Fulham | 1.69 | 1.02786 | 1.31 | 1.19 | 1.35 | 1.22 | 882 | 871 |
| Chelsea | 1.83 | 0.95018 | 1.58 | 1.50 | 1.50 | I .43 | 980 | 1,021 |
| Westminster, City of | 1.95 | 0.89205 | 1.58 | 1.37 | 1.41 | 1.22 | 922 | 871 |
| St. Marylebone | 1.85 | 0.93836 | 1.69 | 1.48 | 1.59 | 1.39 | 1,039 | 993 |
| Hampstead | 1.75 | 0.98862 | 0.78 | 0.70 | 0.77 | 0.69 | 503 | 493 |
| St. Pancras | 1.80 | 0.96551 | 1.78 | 1.66 | 1.72 | 1.60 | 1,124 | 1,143 |
| Islington | 1.75 | 0.99145 | 1.39 | 1.32 | 1.38 | 1.31 | 902 | 936 |
| Stoke Newington | 1.77 | 0.97914 | 1.32 | 0.94 | 1.29 | 0.92 | 843 | 657 |
| Hackney | 1.68 | 1.02969 | 1.31 | 1.17 | .1.35 | 1.20 | 882 | 857 |
| Holborn | 1.97 | 0.87894 | 2.84 | 2.58 | 2.50 | 2.27 | 1,634 | 1,621 |
| Finsbury | 1.72 | 1.01050 | 2.23 | 2.33 | 2.25 | 2.35 | 1,471 | 1,679 |
| City of London | 1.89 | 0.91946 | 1.59 | 2.02 | 1.46 | 1.86 | 954 | 1,329 |
| Shoreditch | 1.66 | 1.04206 | 2.06 | 2.10 | 2.15 | 2.19 | 1,405 | 1,564 |
| Bethnal Green | 1.59 | 1.08984 | 2.10 | 1.90 | 2.29 | 2.07 | 1,497 | 1,479 |
| Stepney | 1.65 | 1.05281 | 1.91 | 1.56 | 2.01 | 1.64 | 1,314 | 1,171 |
| Poplar | 1.66 | 1.04772 | 1.65 | 1.33 | 1.73 | 1.39 | 1,131 | 993 |
| Southwark | 1.74 | 0.99829 | 2.31 | 203 | 2.31 | 2.03 | 1,510 | 1,450 |
| Bermondsey | 1.65 | 1.05026 | 1.91 | 1.88 | 2.01 | 1.97 | 1,314 | 1,407 |
| Lambeth | 1.75 | 0.99258 | 1.46 | 1.53 | 1.45 | 1.52 | 948 | 1,086 |
| Battersea | 1.69 | 1.02483 | 1.33 | 1.25 | 1.36 | 1.28 | 889 | 914 |
| Wandsworth | 1.72 | 1.01050 | 1.00 | 0.95 | 1.01 | 0.96 | 660 | 686 |
| Camberwell | 1.68 | 1.03522 | 1.31 | 1.31 | 1.36 | 1.36 | 889 | 971 |
| Deptford | 1.69 | 1.02969 | 1.28 | 1.34 | 1.32 | 1.38 | 863 | 986 |
| Greenwich | 1.67 | 1.04143 | 1.22 | 1.08 | 1.27 | 1.12 | 830 | 800 |
| Lewisham | 1.69 | 1.02543 | 0.89 | 0.93 | 0.91 | 0.95 | 595 | 679 |
| Woolwich | 1.70 | 1.01881 | 1.49 | 1.25 | 1.52 | 1.27 | 993 | 907 |
It will be seen from the foregoing table (comparing the corrected death-rates) that among the
several sanitary areas in the quinquennium 1902.6, Holborn (2.50) had the highest phthisis death-rate
and Hampstead (0.77) the lowest; in the year 1907 Finsbury (2.35) had the highest death-rate, the
lowest again obtaining in Hampstead (0.69). The death-rates from phthisis in each of the four
quarters of the year 1907, were as follows : first quarter, 1.73 ; second quarter, 1.41 ; third quarter,
112 ; and fourth quarter, 1.34, per 1,000 persons living.
The following table enables comparison to be made between the phthisis death-rates in the
several sanitary areas for each of the years 1901.1907, inclusive. These death-rates are corrected
for differences in the age and sex constitution of the various populations, and it will be seen that while
there is a general tendency to decline in the death-rates, there is a considerable difference in the amount
of decline in the rates of the different districts. To facilitate comparison the districts are arranged
in the ascending order of their death-rates in the first year shown in the table, viz., 1901.
1 The standard death-rate used in the calculation of the "factors for correction" has been calculated to more
than the two places of decimals shown in the table.
2 See footnote (1), page 8.
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