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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
Fulham 1908
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1908
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DEATHS FROM EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
To the seven principal epidemic diseases 276 deaths were
ascribed, representing- a death-rate of 1.70 per 1,000 inhabitants,
which is 1 per 1,000 below the mean rate of the decennium
1898-1907.
The corresponding death rate of the County of London was 1.35
per 1,000, the decennial average being 2.15. In the metropolitan
borough the rates ranged from 0.40 in Hampstead and the City
of London, 0.82 in Stoke Newington, and 0.93 in Wandsworth,
to 2.30 in Bermondsey, 2.48 in Bethnal Green, and 2.53 in
Stepney.
In Table XIII. will be found the number of deaths from each
of the principal epidemic diseases in 1908, and the ten preceding
years, and in Table XIV. the death-rates from them per 1,000
of the estimated population of each ward in 1908.