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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. | 1901-8. | 1909. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 0.151 | 0.131 | West'Ham | 0.22 | 0.13 |
| Liverpool | 0.20 | 0.15 | Bradford | 0.27 | 0.17 |
| Manchester | 0.18 | 0.17 | Newcastle.on.Tyne | 0.19 | 0.19 |
| Birmingham | 0.19 | 0.16 | Hull | 0.30 | 0.23 |
| Leeds | 0.12 | 0.13 | Nottingham | 0.18 | o.1o |
| Sheffield | 0.13 | 0.08 | Salford | 0.41 | 0.44 |
| Bristol | 0.20 | 0.14 | Leicester | 0.06 | 0.06 |
The following table shows that in the quinquennium 1904.8 the London diphtheria death.rate
exceeded that of any of the undermentioned foreign towns except Dtockholm, St. Petersburg, Berlin,
Vienna, and New York, and in 1909 was higher than that of any except Stockholm, St. Petersburg,
Berlin, Vienna, Rome and New York :—
| Town. | 1904-8. | 1909. | Town. | 1904-8. | 1909. |
| London | 0.151 | 0.13 | St. Petersburg | 0.59 | 0.46 |
| Paris | 0.08 | 0.09 | Berlin | 0.20 | 0.32 |
| Brussels | 0.09 | 0.11 | Vienna | 0.21 | 0.16 |
| Amsterdam | 0.10 | 0.07 | Rome | 0.12 | 0.15 |
| Copenhagen | 0.08 | 0.11 | New York | 0.45 | 0.38 |
| Stockholm | 0.16 | 0.17 |
The following table shows the diphtheria cases, deaths, case.rates, and death.rates foi the year
1909, and the case.rates and death.rates for the period 1904.8, in the several sanitary districts:—
| Sanitary area. | Notified Oases, 1909 (52 weeks). | Case.rate per 1,000 persons living. | Deaths, 1909 (52 weeks). | Death.rate per 1,000 persons living. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901.8. | 1909. | 1904.8. | 1909. | |||
| Paddington | 184 | 1.00 | 1.21 | 10 | 0.10 | 0.07 |
| Kensington | 177 | 1.08 | 0.97 | 19 | 0.11 | 0.10 |
| Hammersmith | 192 | 1.89 | 1.53 | 23 | 0.17 | 0.18 |
| Fulham | 322 | 2.44 | 1.83 | 40 | 0.18 | 0.23 |
| Chelsea | 98 | 1.53 | 1.31 | 15 | 0.12 | 0.20 |
| Westminster, City of | 225 | 0.92 | 1.34 | 18 | 0.07 | 0.11 |
| St. Marylebone | 113 | 0.99 | 0.90 | 9 | 0.09 | 0.07 |
| Hampstead | 47 | 0.89 | 0.50 | 5 _ | 0.06 | 0.05 |
| St. Pancras | 320 | 1.33 | 1.35 | 27 | 0.12 | 0*11 |
| Islington | 432 | 1.24 | 1.23 | 30 | 0.11 | 0*09 |
| Stoke Newington | 28 | 1.39 | 0.52 | 2 | 0.09 | 0.04 |
| Hackney | 264 | 1.98 | 1.11 | 19 | 0.17 | 0.08 |
| Holborn | 47 | 0.98 | 0.88 | 3 | 0.10 | 0.06 |
| Finsbury | 167 | 1.66 | 1.76 | 14 | 0.17 | 0.15 |
| London, City of | 19 | 1.23 | 1.05 | — | 0.12 | — |
| Shoreditch | 186 | 1.63 | 1.62 | 22 | 0.14 | 0.19 |
| Bethnal Green | 184 | 2.37 | 1.41 | 17 | 0.22 | 0.13 |
| Stepney | 583 | 2.26 | 1.87 | 51 | 0.25 | 0.16 |
| Poplar | 213 | 2.44 | 1.24 | 20 | 0.28 | 0.12 |
| South wark | 256 | 1.60 | 1.22 | 33 | 0.16 | 0.16 |
| Bermondsey | 197 | 1.97 | 1.55 | 9 | 0.17 | 0.07 |
| Lambeth | 378 | 1.19 | 1.17 | 58 | 0.14 | 0.18 |
| Battersea | 288 | 1.57 | 1.55 | 22 | 0.12 | 0.12 |
| Wandsworth | 371 | 1.84 | 1.25 | 27 | 0.14 | 0.09 |
| Camberwell | 374 | 1.22 | 1.33 | 43 | 0.12 | 0.15 |
| Deptford | 195 | 2.03 | 1.65 | 15 | 0.14 | 0.13 |
| Greenwich | 163 | 2.24 | 1.47 | 7 | 0.18 | 0.06 |
| Lewisham | 388 | 1.75 | 2.42 | 21 | 0.14 | 0.13 |
| Woolwich | 267 | 2.29 | 2.01 | 26 | 0.17 | 0.20 |
| Port of London | 1 | | | ||||
| London........ | 6,679 | 1.63 | 1.39 | 605 | 0.15 | 0.13 |
1 See footnote (2), page 6.
2 The death.rates in this table relate to diphtheria including croup.