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London County Council 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| Sanitary area. | Notified cases, 1909 (52 weeks). | Case-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Deaths, 1909 (52 weeks). | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-8. | 1909. | 1904-8. | 1909. | |||
| St. Marylebone | 21 | 0.32 | 0.17 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.01 |
| Hampstead | 16 | 0.25 | 0.17 | 5 | 0.04 | 0.05 |
| St. Pancras | 50 | 0.35 | 0.21 | 6 | 0.04 | 0.03 |
| Islington | 94 | 0.33 | 0.27 | 13 | 0.05 | 0.04 |
| Stoke Newington | 11 | 0.23 | 0.20 | 1 | 0.04 | 0.02 |
| Hackney | 59 | 0.54 | 0.25 | 6 | 0.08 | 0.03 |
| Holborn | 16 | 0.41 | 0.30 | 1 | 0.06 | 0.02 |
| Finsbury | 13 | 0.43 | 0.14 | 3 | 0.09 | 0.03 |
| London, City of | 4 | 0.40 | 0.22 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.06 |
| Shoreditch | 51 | 0.45 | 0.45 | 6 | 0.06 | 0.05 |
| Bethnal Green | 33 | 0.48 | 0.25 | 4 | 0.07 | 0.03 |
| Stepney | 71 | 0.43 | 0.23 | 6 | 0.07 | 0.02 |
| Poplar | 54 | 0.46 | 0.31 | 13 | 0.07 | 0.08 |
| Southwark | 35 | 0.39 | 0.17 | 6 | 0.06 | 0.03 |
| Bermondsey | 30 | 0.40 | 0.24 | 2 | 0.07 | 0.02 |
| Lambeth | 50 | 0.24 | 0.15 | 9 | 0.04 | 0.03 |
| Battersea | 54 | 0.25 | 0.29 | 7 | 0.04 | 0.04 |
| Wandsworth | 66 | 0.29 | 0.22 | 6 | 0.04 | 0.02 |
| Camberwell | 47 | 0.23 | 0.17 | 5 | 0.04 | 0.02 |
| Deptford | 33 | 0.29 | 0.28 | 6 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| Greenwich | 30 | 0.33 | 0.27 | 4 | 0.06 | 0.04 |
| Lewisham | 18 | 0.21 | 0.11 | 2 | 0.02 | 0.01 |
| Woolwich | 12 | 0.22 | 0.09 | 3 | 0.05 | 0.02 |
| Port of London | 4 | |||||
| London | 1,043 | 0.33 | 0.22 | 146 | 0.05 | 0.03 |
It will be seen from the foregoing table that among the several sanitary areas in the period 1904-8
the enteric fever death-rate was highest in Finsbury (0'09), and lowest in Lewisham (0 02); in the year
1909, Poplar (0-08) had the highest enteric fever death-rate, while St. Marylebone and Lewisham (0 01)
had the lowest. The death-rates from enteric fever in London, in each of the four quarters of the year
1909, were as follows: first quarter, 005 ; second quarter, 0 02; third quarter, 0.02; and fourth quarter,
0 03 per 1,000 persons living.
Enteric Fever.—Age and sex distribution.
The following table shows the notified cases, deaths, case-rates, death-rates and fatality of enteric
fever at the several ages and for each sex in London during the year 1909. The case-rate, death-rate,
and fatality were at "all ages" higher among males than among females. In the age groups adopted
for the purposes of this table the greatest incidence of attack was upon males and females aged 10-15,
the greatest incidence of death was upon males aged 25-35 and upon females aged 15-20 and 25-35,
The fatality was greatest among males of 45-55 and females aged 55 and upwards.
| Age-period. | Males. | Females. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified Cases. | Deaths. | Case-mortality per cent. | Rates per 100,000 living. | Notified Cases. | Deaths. | Case-mortality per cent. | Rates per 100,000 living. | |||
| Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | |||||||
| All Ages | 540 | 99 | 18.3 | 24 | 4 | 503 | 57 | 11.3 | 20 | 2 |
| 0— | 2 | 8.1 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 9.4 | 12 | 1 | ||
| 1— | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ||||||
| 2— | 9 | 1 | 3 | - | ||||||
| 3— | 10 | 1 | 11 | 2 | ||||||
| 4— | 14 | — | 9 | — | ||||||
| 5— | 69 | 5 | 7.2 | 29 | 2 | 54 | — | — | 23 | - |
| 10— | 74 | 3 | 4.1 | 34 | 1 | 69 | 5 | 7.2 | 31 | 2 |
| 15— | 54 | 7 | 13.0 | 24 | 3 | 57 | 11 | 19.3 | 23 | 4 |
| 20— | 64 | 14 | 21.9 | 28 | 6 | 78 | 4 | 5.1 | 28 | 1 |
| 25— | 106 | 32 | 30.2 | 27 | 8 | 119 | 20 | 16.8 | 26 | 4 |
| 35— | 86 | 19 | 22.1 | 29 | 6 | 58 | 8 | 13.8 | 18 | 2 |
| 45— | 36 | 12 | 33.3 | 17 | 6 | 25 | 2 | 8.0 | 11 | 1 |
| 55 & upwards | 14 | 4 | 28.6 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 36.4 | 4 | 1 |
| 1 See footnotes (2), page 6 and (2),'page 38. | ||||||||||