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London County Council 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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The deaths from phthisis in the Administrative County of London during 1908 (53 weeks) num.
bered 6,419, as compared with 6,654 in 1907 (52 weeks).
The death-rates from this disease in successive periods have been as follows :—
1 he death-rates from this disease in successive periods have been as follows :—
| Period. | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Period. | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1851-60 | 2.86 | 1903 | 1.551 |
| 1861-70 | 2.84 | 1904 | 1.621 |
| 1871-80 | 2.51 | 1905 | 1.421 |
| 1881-90 | 2.08 | 1906 | 1.441 |
| 1891-1900 | 1.79 | 1907 | 1.401 |
| 1901 | 1.661 | 1908 | 1.321 |
| 1902 | 1.601 |
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 1851-1908 (males and females) is shown
in diagram XXI.
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 area. | Standard death-rate.2 | Factor for correction for age and sex distri-tribution. | Crude death-rate. | Corrected death-rate. | Comparative mortality figure. (London 1,000.) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1003-7. | 1908. | 1903-7. | 1908. | 1903-7. | 1908. | |||
| London | 1.74 | 1.ooooo | 1.49 | 1.32 | 1.49 | 1.32 | 1,000 | 1,000 |
| Paddington | 1.80 | 0.96659 | 1.09 | 1.01 | 1.05 | 0.98 | 709 | 741 |
| Kensington | 1.78 | 0.97419 | 1.23 | 0.98 | 1.20 | 0.95 | 806 | 725 |
| Hammersmith | 1.74 | 0.99600 | 1.29 | 1.26 | 1.28 | 1.25 | 865 | 953 |
| Fulham | 1.69 | 1.02786 | 1.27 | 114 | 1.31 | 1.17 | 878 | 890 |
| Chelsea | 1.83 | 0.95018 | 1.59 | 1.27 | 1.51 | 1.21 | 1,017 | 916 |
| Westminster, City of | 1.95 | 0.89205 | 1.50 | 1.23 | 1.34 | 110 | 900 | 833 |
| St. Marylebone | 1.85 | 0.93836 | 1.60 | 1.16 | 1.50 | 1.09 | 1,010 | 827 |
| Hampstead | 1.75 | 0.98862 | 0.75 | 0.78 | 0.74 | 0.77 | 499 | 586 |
| St. Pancras | 1.80 | 0.96551 | 1.74 | 1.51 | 1.68 | 1.46 | 1,131 | 1,107 |
| Islington | 1.75 | 0.99145 | 1.35 | 1.24 | 1.34 | 1.23 | 901 | 934 |
| Stoke Newington | 1.77 | 0.97914 | 1.25 | 107 | 1.22 | 1.05 | 824 | 796 |
| Hackney | 1.68 | 1.02969 | 1.26 | 1.22 | 1.30 | 1.26 | 873 | 954 |
| Holborn | 1.97 | 0.87894 | 2.76 | 2.11 | 2.43 | 1.85 | 1,632 | 1,408 |
| Finsbury | 1.72 | 1.01050 | 224 | 2.15 | 2.26 | 2.17 | 1,523 | 1,650 |
| London, City of | 1.89 | 0.91946 | 1.65 | 1.79 | 1.52 | 1.65 | 1,021 | 1,250 |
| Shoreditch | 1.66 | 1.04206 | 2.11 | 2.00 | 2.20 | 2.08 | 1,480 | 1,583 |
| Bethnal Green | 1.59 | 1.08984 | 2.09 | 1.61 | 2.28 | 1.75 | 1,533 | 1,332 |
| Stepney | 1.65 | 1.05281 | 1.84 | 1.56 | 1.94 | 1.64 | 1,304 | 1,247 |
| Poplar | 1.66 | 1.04772 | 1.58 | 1.34 | 1.66 | 1.40 | 1,115 | 1,066 |
| Southwark | 174 | 0.99829 | 2.20 | 1.88 | 2.20 | 1.88 | 1,478 | 1,425 |
| Bermondsey | 1.65 | 1 .05026 | 1.91 | 1.89 | 2.01 | 1.98 | 1,350 | 1,507 |
| Lambeth | 1.75 | 0.99258 | 1.43 | 1.45 | 1.42 | 1.44 | 955 | 1,093 |
| Battersea | 1.69 | 1.02483 | 1.32 | 1.19 | 1.35 | 1.22 | 910 | 926 |
| Wandsworth | 1.72 | 1.01050 | 1.01 | 0.96 | 1.02 | 0.97 | 687 | 737 |
| Camberwell | 1.68 | 1.03522 | 1.27 | 112 | 1.31 | 1.16 | 885 | 880 |
| Deptford | 1.69 | 1.02969 | 1.32 | 1.16 | 1.36 | 1.19 | 915 | 907 |
| Greenwich | 1.67 | 1.04143 | 1.20 | 1.10 | 1.25 | 1.15 | 841 | 870 |
| Lewisham | 1.69 | 1 .02543 | 0.87 | 0.85 | 0.89 | 0.87 | 600 | 662 |
| Woolwich | 1.70 | 1.01881 | 1.44 | 1.20 | 1.47 | 1.22 | 987 | 928 |
1 See footnote (1) page 8.
2 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.