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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Town. | 1898-1007. | 1908. | Town. | 1898-1907. | 1908. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
West Ham | 0.11 | 0.16 | |||
Liverpool | 0.26 | 0.28 | Bradford | 0.17 | 0.04 |
Manchester | 0.17 | 0.15 | Newcastle-on-Tyne | 0.12 | 0.04 |
Birmingham | 0.19 | 0.13 | Hull | 0.09 | 0.01 |
Leeds | 0.15 | 0.03 | Nottingham | 0.12 | 0.04 |
Sheffield | 0.22 | 0.08 | Salford | 0.29 | 0.27 |
Bristol | 0.10 | 0.03 | Leicester | 0.13 | 0.11 |
The following table shows that in the year 1908 the London scarlet fever death-rate was higher than that of Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Rome, but in the decennium 1898-1907 was exceeded by the death-rates of Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna and New York:-
Town. | 1898-1907. | 1908. | Town. | 1898-1907. | 1908. | |
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St. Petersburg | 0.52 | 0.41 | ||||
Paris | 0.05 | 0.08 | Berlin | 0.21 | 0.13 | |
Brussels | 0.04 | 0.09 | Vienna | 0.12 | 0.13 | |
Amsterdam | 0.03 | 0.02 | Rome | 0.01 | 0.06 | |
Copenhagen | 0.09 | 0.09 | New York | 0.19 | 0.30 | |
Stockholm | 0.13 | 0.14 |
The following table shows the scarlet fever cases, deaths, case-rates, and death-rates for the year 1908, the case-rates for the decennium 1898-1907, and the death-rates for the period 1903-7 in the several sanitary districts of the County :—
Sanitary area. | Notified cases, 1908 (53 weeks). | Case-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Deaths, 1908 (53 weeks). | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1898-1907. | 1908. | 1903-1907. | 1908. | |||
Paddington | 682 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 15 | 0.08 | 0.10 |
Kensington | 453 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 9 | 0.07 | 0.05 |
Hammersmith | 394 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 11 | 0.08 | 0.09 |
Fulham | 596 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 17 | 0.08 | 0.10 |
Chelsea | 174 | 2.8 | 2.3 | 8 | 0.08 | 0.10 |
Westminster, City of | 627 | 2.4 | 3.6 | 7 | 0.07 | 0.04 |
St. Marylebone | 411 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 13 | 0.12 | 0.10 |
Hampstead | 280 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 7 | 0.05 | 0.07 |
St. Pancras | 952 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 20 | 0.11 | 0.08 |
Islington | 1,411 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 31 | 0.09 | 0.09 |
Stoke Newington | 202 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 5 | 0.07 | 0.09 |
Hackney | 1,276 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 31 | 0.11 | 0.13 |
194 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 7 | 0.05 | 0.13 | |
Finsbury | 409 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 13 | 0.16 | 0.13 |
London, City of | 53 | 3.1 | 2.7 | - | 0.10 | |
Shoreditch | 600 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 29 | 0.16 | 0.25 |
Bethnal Green | 1,010 | 5.1 | 7.6 | 40 | 0.19 | 0.30 |
Stepney | 2,358 | 4.6 | 7.5 | 55 | 0.15 | 0.17 |
Poplar | 1,280 | 4.0 | 7.3 | 37 | 0.15 | 0.21 |
Southwark | 775 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 24 | 0.13 | 0.11 |
Bermondsey | 641 | 5.4 | 4.9 | 25 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
Lambeth | 1,454 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 42 | 0.09 | 0.13 |
Battersea | 1,152 | 4.2 | 6.2 | 24 | 0.09 | 0.13 |
Wandsworth | 1,261 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 21 | 0.08 | 0.07 |
Camberwell | 1,054 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 24 | 0.09 | 0.08 |
Deptford | 723 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 7 | 0.12 | 0.06 |
Greenwich | 428 | 41 | 3.9 | 6 | 0.08 | 0.05 |
Lewisham | 620 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 11 | 0.07 | 0.07 |
Woolwich | 601 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 9 | 0.08 | 0.07 |
Port of London | 1 | |||||
London | 22,072 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 548 | 0.111 | 0.111 |
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