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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It will be seen from the following table that in the decennium 1898-1907 the London whooping-cough death-rate was exceeded by the death-rates of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, West Ham, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Salford, and in the year 1908 was lower than all except that of Bradford and Leicester.
Town. | 1898-1907. | 1908. | Town. | 1898-1907. | 1908. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
West Ham | 0.47 | 0.26 | |||
Liverpool | 0.47 | 0.45 | Bradford | 0.25 | 0.19 |
Manchester | 0.43 | 0.33 | Newcastle-on-Tyne | 0.42 | 0.48 |
Birmingham | 0.44 | 0.54 | Hull | 0.36 | 0.21 |
Leeds | 0.36 | 0.28 | Nottingham | 0.32 | 0.23 |
Sheffield | 0.36 | 0.53 | Salford | 0.49 | 0.42 |
Bristol | 0.31 | 0.34 | Leicester | 0.27 | 0.13 |
The following table shows that the London whooping-cough death-rate was, in the decennium 1898-1907, higher than that of any of the undermentioned foreign towns, and in the year 1908, higher than that of all except Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and St. Petersburg.
Town. | 1893-1907. | 1908. | Town. | 1898-1907. | 1908. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
St. Petersburg | 0.22 | 0.27 | |||
Paris | 0.12 | 0.09 | Berlin | 0.26 | 0.19 |
Brussels | 0.12 | 0.05 | Vienna | 0.09 | 0.09 |
Amsterdam | 0.24 | 0.21 | Rome | 0.08 | 0.04 |
Copenhagen | 0.33 | 0.37 | New York | 0.12 | 0.04 |
Stockholm | 0.17 | 0.07 |
The following table shows the whooping-cough deaths and death-rates for the year 1908 and the death-rates for the period 1903-7 in the several metropolitan sanitary districts :—
Sanitary area. | Deaths, 1908 (53 weeks). | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | |
---|---|---|---|
1903-7. | 1908. | ||
Paddington | 0.25 | 0.07 | |
Kensington | 7 | 0.30 | 0.04 |
Hammersmith | 19 | 0.30 | 0.15 |
Fulham | 34 | 0.37 | 0.19 |
Chelsea | 17 | 0.32 | 0.22 |
Westminster, City of | 0.15 | 0.05 | |
St. Marylebone | 13 | 0.23 | |
Hampstead | 5 | 0.05 | |
St. Pancras | 69 | 0.34 | 0.29 |
Islington | 55 | 0.32 | 0.16 |
Stoke Newington | 6 | 0.29 | |
Hackney | 44 | 0.26 | 0.18 |
Holborn | 0.29 | 0.14 | |
Finsbury | 25 | 0.45 | 0.26 |
London, City of | 1 | 0.22 | 0.05 |
Shoreditch | 24 | 0.62 | 0.20 |
Bethnal Green | 42 | 0.42 | 0.32 |
Stepney | 129 | 0.38 | 0.41 |
Poplar | 73 | 0.44 | 0.42 |
Southwark | 50 | 0.41 | 0.23 |
Bermondsey | 0.39 | 0.17 | |
Lambeth | 50 | 0.32 | 0.15 |
Battersea | 39 | 0.38 | 0.21 |
Wandsworth | 0.29 | 0.21 | |
Camberwell | 54 | 0.32 | 0.19 |
Deptford | 24 | 0.37 | 0.20 |
Greenwich | 31 | 0.34 | 0.28 |
Lewisham | 30 | 0.20 | 0.19 |
32 | 0.25 | 0.24 | |