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London County Council 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1911.
It will be seen from the foregoing table that in the period 1906-10 and the yoar 1911 Shoreditch
(149 and 170 respectively) had the highest infantile death-rates and Hampstead (70 and 78
respectively) had the lowest. The deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births, during each of the
four quarters of the year,were as follows:—First quarter 108; second quarter 89; third quarter 203 ;
fourth quarter 113.
The reports of Medical Officers of Health of the several sanitary districts of the Administrative
It will be seen that the total deaths here shown differ slightly from the total in the preceding table derived from the annual summary of the Registrar-General.
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| Total (All Causes) | 2,374 | 617 | 571 | 506 | 4,068 | 0,669 | 3,035 | 2,485 | 2,320 | 14,509 |
Comparison may be made between the number of deaths from the several causes in the above table with those of the six antecedent years by reference to the following table:—
| Cause of death. | 1905. 52 weeks. | 1906. 52 weeks. | 1907. 52 weeks. | 1908. 53 weeks. | 1909. 52 weeks. | 1910. 52 weeks. | 1911. 52 weeks. | Deaths in 1911 in excess or defect of the corrected average for 1905-10 | |
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| Small-pox | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | |
| Chicken-pox | 3 | 3 | 10 | 4 | – | 1 | |||
| Measles | 389 | 420 | 400 | 333 | 503 | 391 | – | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 34 | 18 | 35 | 24 | 20 | 10 | – | ||
| Diphtheria and Croup | 52 | 59 | 53 | 67 | 60 | 30 | 53 | – | 4 |
| Whooping-cough .. | 623 | 502 | 746 | 469 | 524 | 602 | 424 | 110 | – |
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