Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1898
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The following Table has been partly compiled from the Annual Reports of the Local Government Board, to which is added, by way of comparison, the results of our experience in the City of London:—
Year. | Total No. of Samples Examined in England and Wales. | Number Examined in the City of London. | Percentage of Total No. Examined in City of London. | No. of Persons to each Sample examined. | |
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England and Wales. | City of London. | ||||
1881 | 17,823 | 162 | .92 | 1,462 | 318 |
1882 | 19,439 | 197 | 1.01 | 1,358 | 252 |
1883 | 19,648 | 201 | 1.02 | 1,363 | 240 |
1884 | 22,951 | 285 | 1.24 | 1,182 | 164 |
1885 | 23,230 | 206 | .88 | 1,184 | 221 |
1886 | 23,596 | 188 | .79 | 1,181 | 235 |
1887 | 24,440 | 294 | 1.20 | 1,171 | 146 |
1888 | 26,344 | 178 | .67 | 1,086 | 235 |
1889 | 26,954 | 249 | .90 | 964 | 162 |
1890 | 27,465 | 165 | .62 | 1,071 | 239 |
1891 | 29,028 | 169 | .42 | 998 | 227 |
1892 | 32,447 | 123 | .38 | 894 | 303 |
1893 | 37,233 | 104 | .28 | 779 | 347 |
1894 | 39,516 | 161 | .40 | 734 | 216 |
1895 | 43,962 | 266 | .60 | 661 | 127 |
1896 | 45,555 | 212 | .47 | 636 | 148 |
1897 | 46,856 | 220 | .47 | 619 | 138 |
1898 | Return not yet received. | 230 | — | — | 122 |