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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
Strand (Westminster) 1899
Annual report on the statistics and sanitary condition relating to Strand District, London for the year 1899
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THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON.
Upon the basis of the estimated population already referred to,
the death.rate for 1899 is 21.41 per thousand persons as compared
with 23.18 per thousand, the average rate for the preceding
ten years. The death.rates in the four quarters were as
follows:—
1st Quarter. 2nd Quarter. 3rd Quarter. 4th Quarter.
London 20.1 16.2 20.1 20.9
Strand 22.3 18.83 18.83 25.6
The London rate for the year was 19.7 per 1,000, being the
same as the decennial average.
TABLE IV.
Death Rates in the Groups of Metropolitan Districts in 1899, compared with those in the Strand.
| Districts. | All Causes. | Deaths from | Deaths under 1 year to 1,000 Birhts | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small.Fox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Fever. | Diarrhœa | Phthisis. | |||
| London | 19.7 | 2.46 | 0.00 | 0.47 | 0.08 | 0.43 | 0.37 | 0.17 | 0.92 | 1.81 | 167 |
| West | 18.0 | 1.91 | – | 0.22 | 0.10 | 0.26 | 0.33 | 0.15 | 0.80 | 1.65 | 174 |
| North | 17.7 | 2.17 | 0.00 | 0.40 | 0.09 | 0.35 | 0.38 | 0.15 | 0.78 | 1.63 | 155 |
| Central | 23.0 | 2.20 | – | 0.45 | 0.11 | 0.27 | 0.26 | 0.22 | 0.90 | 2.75 | 172 |
| East | 22.9 | 3.17 | 0.00 | 0.72 | 0.06 | 0.47 | 0.45 | 0.24 | 1.23 | 2.18 | 180 |
| South | 19.0 | 2.62 | 0.00 | 0.53 | 0.09 | 0.54 | 0.36 | 015 | 0.94 | 1.75 | 164 |
| Strand Sub.Dists. | 21.41 | 1.37 | – | 0.16 | 0.04 | 0.25 | – | 0.04 | 0.87 | 2.75 | 180 |
| St. Anne | 17.35 | 1.40 | – | 0.08 | 0.08 | 0.4l | – | 0.08 | 0.74 | 1.40 | 135 |
| Strand | 25.54 | 1.34 | – | 0.25 | – | 0.08 | – | – | 1.00 | 3.27 | 243 |
Note.—Where the deaths under any heading are too few to express as a rate
per 1,000 within two places of decimals, 0.00 is inserted; where no
deaths have occurred, it is expressed thus —