Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Cases notified in 1892. | Case—Rate per 10,000 in 1892. | Deaths in 1892. | Death rate per 10,000 in 1892. | Death rate per 10,000 in 1885-91. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
St. Saviour, Southwark | 5 | 2 | 1 | .4 | 1.2 |
St. George, Southwark | 28 | 5 | 7 | 1.2 | 1.0 |
Newington | 58 | 5 | 10 | .9 | 1.4 |
St. Olave | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1.6 | 1.4 |
Bermondsey | 43 | 5 | 6 | .7 | 1.4 |
Rotherhithe | 49 | 12 | 7 | 1.8 | 2.0 |
Lambeth | 119 | 4 | 22 | .8 | 1.2 |
Battersea | 70 | 5 | 10 | .6 | 1.3 |
Wandsworth | 85 | 5 | 13 | .8 | |
Camberwell | 103 | 4 | 22 | .9 | 1.2 |
Greenwich | 116 | 7 | 23 | 1.4 | 1.6 |
Lewisham | 44 | 5 | 4 | .4 | 1.1 |
Woolwich | 17 | 4 | 11 | 2.7 | 1.1 |
Plumstead | 40 | 4 | 7 | .8 | .7 |
London | 2,469* | 6 | 424 | 1.0 | 1.4 |
*Including 17 cases notified to the Port Sanitary Authority.
Diarrhœa.
The deaths in London in the year 1892 attributed to diarrhœa numbered 2,548, giving a death rate of 060 per 1,000 persons living. The death rates in previous periods were as follows—
1851-60 | 1.03 | 1881-90 | 0.74 |
1861-70 | 1.04 | 1891 | 0.57 |
1871-80 | 0.94 | 1892 | 0.60 |
Diagram XII. shows the annual fluctuations in mortality from this disease during the period
1841-92. and the mean temperature in the summer quarter of corresponding years.
The age distribution of the deaths from this disease registered in London (excluding Penge) in 1892 was as follows—
Under 1 year. | 1—5 | 5 and under 20 | 20 and under 40 | 40 and under 60 | 60 and under 80. | 80 and upwards. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1,840 | 409 | 13 | 21 | 54 | 152 | 57 |
The accompanying chart (XI.) shows the incidence of this disease upon the various sanitary
districts are London during the period 1885—92.
The number of deaths in 1892 and the death rates in 1885-91 and 1892 in the several sanitary. districts are shown in the following table-
Deaths 1892. | Death rate per 10,000 in 1892. | Death rate per ID,000, 1885-91. | Deaths, 1892. | Death rate per 10,000 in 1892. | Death rate per 10,000, 1885-91. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
104 79 | |||||||
Kensington Hammersmith | 68 70 | 41 7.0 | 5.1 10.5 | Shoreditch Bethnal-green | 8.4 6.1 | 10.5 7.7 | |
Fulham | 93 | 9.4 | Whitechapel | 42 | 5.6 | 9.1 | |
Paddington | 72 | 6.1 | 5.2 | St. George-in-the-East | 59 | 13.0 | 16.9 |
Chelsea | 72 | 7.4 | 7.7 | Limehouse | 37 | 6.5 | 10.2 |
St. George, Hanover-square | 20 | 2.6 | 4.4 | Mile-end Old-town | 73 | 6.8 | 8.3 6.4 |
Westminster | 22 | 4.0 | 6.8 | Poplar | 109 | 6.5 | |
St. James | 7 | 2.9 | 4.7 | ||||
St. Saviour, Southwark | 14 | 5.2 | 9.0 | ||||
Marylebone | 73 | 5.2 | 6.4 | St. George, Southwark | 37 | 6.2 | 9.5 |
Hampstead | 15 | 2.1 | 2.9 | Newington | 83 | 7.1 | 6.7 |
Pancras | 140 | 6.0 | 6.8 | St. Olave | 11 | 8.6 | 9.1 |
Islington | 189 | 5.8 | 6.9 | Bermondsey | 44 | 5.2 | 8.4 |
Hackney | 125 | 5.3 | 5.9 | Rotherhithe | 33 | 8.3 | 9.5 |
Lambeth | 155 | 5.6 | 6.9 | ||||
Battersea | 103 | 6.7 | 7.0 | ||||
St. Giles | 22 | 5.6 | 6.3 | Wandsworth | 97 | 5.9 | |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 4 | 2.8 | 4.8 | Camberwell | 145 | 6.1 | 6.5 |
Strand | 8 | 3.3 | 6.6 | Greenwich | 126 | 7.4 | 6.5 |
Holborn | 19 | 5.8 | 7.1 | Lewisham | 41 | 4.3 | 4.2 |
Clerkenwell | 41 | 6.3 | 10.6 | Woolwich | 25 | 6.2 | 4.8 |
St. Luke | 33 | 7.9 | 10.5 | Plumstead | 33 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
London, City of | 5 | 1.4 | 3.4 | London | 2,548 | 6.0 | 6.9 |