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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| Town. | 1904.8. | 1909. | Town. | 1904.8. | 1909. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 1.70 | 1.30 | West Ham | 2.83 | 2.24 |
| Liverpool | 3.01 | 2.11 | Bradford | 1.63 | 0.68 |
| Manchester | 2.47 | 1.81 | Newcastle.on.Tyne | 1.7.9 | 1.22 |
| Birmingham | 2.34 | 2.03 | Hull | 2.55 | 1.38 |
| Leeds | 1.83 | 0.80 | Nottingham | 2.08 | 1.67 |
| Sheffield | 2.57 | 1.78 | Salford | 3.07 | 2.45 |
| Bristol | 1.33 | 0.87 | Leicester | 1.67 | 1.22 |
The following table shows that the London death.rate from six of these principal epidemic
diseases, viz.: smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria (including croup), whooping.cough and
enteric fever was, in the quinquennium 1904.8, higher than the death.rates of all the undermentioned
foreign towns except St. Petersburg and New York, and in 1909, was higher than that of all except St.
Petersburg, Berlin, Rome and New York.
| Town. | 1904.8. | 1909. | Town. | 1904.8. | 1909. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 1.011 | 0.981 | St. Petersburg | 3.20 | 2.46 |
| Paris | 0.55 | 0.50 | Berlin | 0.80 | 1.03 |
| Brussels | 0.48 | 0.46 | Vienna | 0.82 | 0.69 |
| Amsterdam | 0.96 | 0.79 | Rome | 0.97 | 0.99 |
| Copenhagen | 0.66 | 0.79 | New York | 1.10 | 0.98 |
| Stockholm | 0.56 | 0.54 |
The following table shows the deaths from the principal epidemic diseases and the death.rates
per 1,000 persons living in each of the sanitary areas of the County in 1909, and the death.rates for the
eriod 1904.8:—
| Sanitary area. | Deaths, 1909 (52 weeks). | Death.rate per 1,000 persona living. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1904.8. | 1909. | ||
| Paddington | 136 | 1.26 | 091 |
| Kensington | 183 | 1.28 | 1.00 |
| Hammersmith | 210 | 1.73 | 1.67 |
| Fulham | 276 | 2.18 | 1.57 |
| Chelsea | 75 | 1.44 | 1.00 |
| Westminster, City of | 104 | 0.76 | 0.63 |
| St. Marylebone | 105 | 1.14 | 0.83 |
| Hampstead | 50 | 0.55 | 0.52 |
| St. Pancras | 230 | 1.47 | 0.97 |
| Islington | 423 | 1.41 | 1.22 |
| Stoke Newington | 34 | 1.04 | 0.63 |
| Hackney | 220 | 1.71 | 0.93 |
| Holborn | 45 | 1.34 | 0.85 |
| Finsbury | 224 | 2.45 | 2.36 |
| London, City of | 13 | 0.70 | 0.72 |
| Shoreditch | 328 | 2.88 | 2.87 |
| Bethnal Green | 260 | 2.44 | 1.99 |
| Stepney | 526 | 2.53 | 1.68 |
| Poplar | 405 | 2.66 | 2.37 |
| South wark | 350 | 2.29 | 1.67 |
| Bermondsey | 348 | 2.52 | 2.74 |
| Lambeth | 387 | 1.56 | 1.19 |
| Battersea | 239 | 1.67 | 1.29 |
| Wandsworth | 286 | 1.37 | 0.96 |
| Camberwell | 306 | 1.51 | 1.08 |
| Deptford | 178 | 1.83 | 1.51 |
| Greenwich | 114 | 1.63 | 1.03 |
| Lewisham | 93 | 1.18 | 0.57 |
| Woolwich | 137 | 1.46 | 1.02 |
| London | 6,285 | 1.70 | 1.30 |
1 See footnote (1), page 6.