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London County Council 1914
Annual report of the Council, 1914 Vol. III public health...
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Report of the County Medical Officer—General.
The following table shows the typhoid fever cases, deaths, case-rates and death-rates for the year 1914, arid the case-rates and death-rates for the period 1909-13 in the several sanitary districts—
| Metropolitan borough. | Notified cases, 1914 (52 weeks). | Case-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Deaths, 1914 (52 weeks). | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-13. | 1914. | 1909-13. | 1914. | |||
| Paddington | 0.07 | 3 | 0.03 | |||
| Kensington | 0.03 | |||||
| Hammersmith | 14 | 0.03 | 0.04 | |||
| Fulham | 40 | 0.25 | 9 | 0.04 | ||
| Chelsea | 23 | 0.36 | 3 | 0.05 | ||
| Westminster, City of | 49 | 0.19 | 0.32 | 9 | 0.03 | |
| St. Marylebone | 38 | 0.15 | 0.33 | 0.03 | 0.05 | |
| Hampstead | 17 | 0.18 | 4 | 0.03 | 0.05 | |
| St. Pancras | 44 | 0.23 | 4 | |||
| Islington | 75 | 0.23 | 15 | 0.03 | ||
| Stoke Newington | 4 | 0.15 | — | — | ||
| Hackney | 29 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.04 | ||
| Holborn | 15 | 0.29 | 0.32 | 0.04 | 0.13 | |
| Finsbury | 19 | 0.33 | 0.23 | 0.04 | ||
| London, City of | 5 | 0.25 | 0.05 | |||
| Shoreditch | 19 | 0.27 | 0.17 | 0.04 | ||
| Bethnal Green | 0.35 | 0.14 | 4 | 0.05 | 0.03 | |
| Stepney | 48 | 0.17 | 0.03 | 0.03 | ||
| Poplar | 34 | 0.31 | 0.04 | |||
| Southwark | 24 | 0.13 | 0.03 | |||
| Bermondsey | 0.25 | 3 | 0.03 | |||
| Lambeth | 50 | 0.19 | 0.17 | 0.04 | 0.05 | |
| Battersea | 0.13 | 3 | 0.03 | |||
| Wandsworth | 47 | 0.19 | 0.14 | 5 | ||
| Camberwell | 29 | 5 | ||||
| Deptford | 9 | 0.08 | 3 | 0.03 | 0.03 | |
| Greenwich | 17 | 5 | 0.03 | 0.05 | ||
| Lewisham | 51 | 0.18 | 0.30 | 0.03 | 0.04 | |
| Woolwich | 3 | |||||
| Port of London | ||||||
Typhoid
fever
in London
boroughs.
It will be seen that in the period 1909-13 among the several sanitary districts the typhoid fever
death-rate was highest in Poplar (0.06), and lowest in Woolwich (O'Ol); in the year 1914 Holborn (0.13)
had the highest typhoid fever death-rate, while two districts had a death-rate of 0.0l only and in Stoke
Newington no death occurred. The death-rates from typhoid fever in London in each of the four
quarters of the year 1914 were as follows: first quarter, 0.04; second quarter, 0.03; third quarter, 0.03;
and fourth quarter, 003.
In the age groups adopted for the purposes of this table, the greatest incidence of attack was upon males aged 20-25 and females aged 10-15 ; the greatest incidence of death was upon males 20.5 and females 15-20; and the fatality was greatest among males and females over 55 years of age.
| Cases. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Ages | 429 | 81 | 18.8 | 20 | 4 | 360 | 70 | 19.4 | 15 | 3 |
| 0— | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 23.5 | 7 | 2 | |||
| 1— | — | - | 2 | — | ||||||
| 2— | 1 | - | — | 4 | — | 5 | ||||
| 3— | 4 | — | 5 | 2 | ||||||
| 4— | 4 | — | 4 | - | ||||||
| 5— | 39 | 2 | 5.1 | 18 | 1 | 38 | 5 | 13.1 | 18 | 2 |
| 10— | 51 | 3 | 5.9 | 26 | 2 | 52 | 1 | 1.9 | 26 | 0 |
| 15— | 60 | 6 | 10.0 | 31 | 3 | 50 | 14 | 27.9 | 24 | 7 |
| 20— | 62 | 13 | 20.9 | 33 | 7 | 55 | 12 | 21.8 | 23 | 5 |
| 25— | 94 | 26 | 27.6 | 26 | 7 | 76 | 18 | 23.6 | 18 | 4 |
| 35— | 69 | 20 | 28.9 | 24 | 7 | 43 | 9 | 20.9 | 13 | 3 |
| 45— | 34 | 8 | 23.4 | 16 | 4 | 21 | 3 | 14.2 | 9 | 1 |
| 55 & upwards | 10 | 3 | 29.9 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 49.9 | 3 | 1 |
Typhoid
fever
cases and
deaths by
age and sex,
London.
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