[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of] page 56

City of Westminster 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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Table: Whooping Cough .—This complaint was responsible for 23 deaths, 22 of them of children under five years of age. It was most prevalent in the first part of the year, and was a continuation of an outbreak which began in the autumn of 1904, and 210 cases were notified from schools.

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Whooping Cough .—This complaint was responsible for 23 deaths, 22 of them of children under five years of age. It was most prevalent in the first part of the year, and was a continuation of an outbreak which began in the autumn of 1904, and 210 cases were notified from schools.

	1901.	1902.	1903.	1904.	1905.	1906.
City of Westminster— Cases notified	8	145	83	56	210	92
Deaths	48	34	33	17	35	23
Deaths per 1,000 population	0.26	0.18	0.18	00.9	0.19	0.13
County of London	0.35	0.40	0.35	0.33	0.32	0.26

Table: Calculated on the number of children under five years of age, the death-rates per 1,000 were:-

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Calculated on the number of children under five years of age, the death-rates per 1,000 were:-

City of Westminster	3.67	2.65	2.63	1.37	2.8	1.6
County of London	3 .23	3.65	3.22	2.9	2.9	2 .3

Table: The death rates per 1,000 population in each quarter of the year were:-

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The death rates per 1,000 population in each quarter of the year were:-

	1st Quarter.	2nd Quarter.	3rd Quarter.	4th Quarter.
City of Westminster	0.16	0.23	0.06	0.06
City of London	0.29	0.34	0.17	0.15

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City of Westminster 1906

Table: Whooping Cough .—This complaint was responsible for 23 deaths, 22 of them of children under five years of age. It was most prevalent in the first part of the year, and was a continuation of an outbreak which began in the autumn of 1904, and 210 cases were notified from schools.

Table: Calculated on the number of children under five years of age, the death-rates per 1,000 were:-

Table: The death rates per 1,000 population in each quarter of the year were:-