Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Cause of Death. | Diminution in 1908. | Excess in 1908. |
---|---|---|
Tuberculous Phthisis | 1,36 | - |
Phthisis | ||
Tuberculous Meningitis | 127 | - |
Tuberculous Peritonitis | 258 | — |
Tabes Mesenterica | ||
Other Tuberculous Diseases (including Scrofula) | 49 | |
Cancer | - | 304 |
Premature Birth | 438 | - |
Diseases of Nervous system ) | 2,236 | - |
Diseases of Circulatory system | - | - |
Diseases of Respiratory system | 2,457 | — |
Diseases of Digestive system | 990 | A |
Diseases of Urinary system | - | 26 |
Childbirth and Puerperal Septic Diseases | 82 | — |
Accident | 461 | — |
Homicide | 10 | — |
Suicide | - | 38 |
All other Causes | 1,680 | - |
Net diminution | 13,399 |
The following table shows the crude death.rates, and the death.rates corrected for difference*
in the age and sex constitution of the population of the several sanitary districts during the year
1908 ; the mean death.rates for the period 1903.7 are also shown for the purposes of comparibon.
Area. | standard death. rate. | Factor for correction for age and sex distribution. | Crude death.rate per 1,000 persons living. | Corrected death. rate per 1,000 persons living. | Corrected comparative mortality figure (London, 1,U)0). | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1903-7. | 1908. | 1903-7. | 1908. | 1903-7. | 1908. | |||
18.19 | 1.0000 | - | - | - | — | — | - | |
London | 17.31 | 1.0511 | 15.2 | 13'8 | 16.0 | 14.5 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
Paddineton | 17.04 | 1.0677 | 13.3 | 12.4 | 14.1 | 13.2 | 885 | 909 |
Kensington | 16.88 | 1. 0778 | 13.9 | 12.9 | 15.0 | 13.9 | 940 | 955 |
Hammersmith | 17.47 | 1.0414 | 14.6 | 140 | 15.2 | 14.5 | 949 | 1,000 |
Fulham | 17.39 | 1.0462 | 14.3 | 12.4 | 14.9 | 12.9 | 932 | 890 |
Chelsea | 17.56 | 1.0361 | 15.5 | 14.5 | 16.0 | 15.0 | 1,000 | 1,034 |
Westminster, City of | 16.22 | 1.1217 | 13.3 | 12.6 | 14.9 | 14.2 | 935 | 976 |
17.08 | 1.0652 | 15.6 | 14.2 | 16.6 | 15.1 | 1,041 | 1,042 | |
Hampstead | 16.13 | 1.1280 | 9.6 | 8.5 | 10..8 | 9.6 | 677 | 659 |
St. Pancras | 17.40 | 1.0456 | 16.1 | 14.7 | 16.8 | 15.4 | 1,050 | 1,060 |
Islington | 17.51 | 1.0391 | 14.7 | 13.2 | 15.3 | 13.7 | 959 | 945 |
Stoke Newington | 17.43 | 1.0438 | 12.4 | 12.3 | 12.9 | 12 .9 | 808 | 886 |
Hackney | 17.46 | 1.0420 | 13.9 | 13 2 | 145 | 13.7 | 910 | 943 |
Holborn | 16.90 | 1.0766 | 18.0 | 16.4 | 19.4 | 17.6 | 1,211 | 1,213 |
Finsbury | 17.57 | 1.0355 | 20.0 | 18.6 | 20.7 | 19.3 | 1,295 | 1,327 |
London, City of | 16.55 | 1.0993 | 16.6 | 17.7 | 18.2 | 19.4 | 1,140 | 1,339 |
Shoreditch | 17.34 | 1.0493 | 19.9 | 17.4 | 20.9 | 18.3 | 1,308 | 1,259 |
Bethnalereen | 18.01 | 1.0102 | 18.5 | 171 | 18.7 | 17.3 | 1,169 | 1,188 |
Stepney | 17.41 | 1.0450 | 17.7 | 16.4 | 18.5 | 17.1 | 1,160 | 1,179 |
Poplar | 17.64 | 1.0314 | 17.8 | 15.9 | 18.4 | 16.3 | 1,149 | 1,126 |
South wark | 17.41 | 1.0450 | 18.6 | 16.3 | 19.4 | 17.0 | 1,213 | 1,173 |
Bermondsev | 17.76 | 1.0244 | 19.0 | 18.8 | 19.5 | 19.2 | 1,220 | 1,323 |
Lambeth | 17.63 | 1.0320 | 15.1 | 13.3 | 15.6 | 13.7 | 976 | 943 |
Battersea | 16.96 | 1.0728 | 14.0 | 12.2 | 15.0 | 13.1 | 939 | 901 |
Wandsworth | 17.25 | 1.0547 | 12.7 | 11.6 | 13.4 | 12.2 | 838 | 839 |
Camberwell | 17.54 | 1.0373 | 14.2 | 12.7 | 14.7 | 13.1 | 920 | 904 |
Deptford | 17.31 | 1.0511 | 15.1 | 13.8 | 15.9 | 14.5 | 992 | 995 |
Greenwich | 17.82 | 1.0210 | 13.5 | 12.6 | 13.8 | 12.9 | 860 | 885 |
Lewisham | 17.46 | 1.0420 | 11.7 | 11.0 | 12.2 | 11.4 | 761 | 788 |
Woolwich | 17.02 | 1.0690 | 13.2 | 11.4 | 14.2 | 12.1 | 887 | 836 |
1 For the purpose of comparison deaths from Infective Endocarditis are included under this heading.
2 All death.rates in this report relating to metropolitan sanitary areas are fully corrected for institutions—see
footnote (*), page 8.