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London County Council 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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result from increase of aggregation of children in schools. The former of these is probably the governing
factor.
If the London death rate be compared with the death rates of other large towns in England
having more than 200,000 inhabitants, it will be seen that in the period 1886.95 the London death
rate exceeded that of any of these towns except Manchester, Liverpool, West Ham and Salford, and in
1896 exceeded that of any except Manchester, Nottingham, Hull and Salford.

Table: Measles—Death rates per 1,000 living.

Measles—Death rates per 1,000 living.

Towns.1886.95.1896.Towns.1886.95.1896.
London0.610.821West Ham0.660.44
Manchester0.791.06Bristol0.490.61
Liverpool0.770.48Nottingham0.410.88
Birmingham0.520.60Bradford0.490.46
Leeds0.590.49Hull0.431.16
Sheffield0.560.57Salford0.870.94

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The following table shows that the measles death rate in London was higher than that of any of
the undermentioned foreign cities in 1896, and in the period 1886.95 was higher than that of any
except St. Peterburg.

Table: Measles—Death rates per 1,000 living.

Measles—Death rates per 1,000 living.

Towns.1886.95.1896.Towns.1886.95.1896.
London.61.821St. Petersburg.69.74
Paris.46.26Berlin.21.13
Brussels.37.39Vienna.56.60
Amsterdam.40.35Rome.54.39
Copenhagen.41.21New York.38.37
Stockholm.45.11

Table: The measles death rate of each district in 1896 and in the preceding ten years is shown in the following table—

The measles death rate of each district in 1896 and in the preceding ten years is shown in the following table—

Sanitary area.Deaths in 1896.Death rate per 1,000 living.Sanitary district.Deaths in 1896.Death rate per 1,000 living.
1886.95.1896.1886.95.1896.
Paddington103.39.81Whitechapel51.74.64
Kensington173.451.00St. George . in . the .281.10.58
Hammersmith62.701.58East Limehouse621.081.05
Fulham101.86
Chelsea110.601.12Mile.end Old.town84.75.74
St. George, Hanover. square32.33.39Poplar147.77.85
St. Saviour, South. wark17.89.66
Westminster18.58•33
St. James31.431.33St. George, South.77.911.26
Marylebone195.511.36wark
Hampstead58.23.75Newington98.78.80
Pancras133.62.54St. Olave11.76.93
Islington275.57.80Bermondsey75.83.86
Stoke Newington5.49.15Rotherhithe43.641.05
Hackney95.44Lambeth182.55.60
St. Giles41.641.06Battersea179.511.06
St. Martin . in . the .11.42.83Wandsworth1511 .79
FieldsCamberwell206.57.80
Strand28.611.16Greenwich193.601.08
Holborn33.791.05Lewisham44.26.41
Clerkenwell53.93.79Woolwich72.541.71
St. Luke351.08.83Lee14.44.36
London, City of6.28.19Plumstead691.14
Shoreditch143.801.15London3,697.61.822
Bethnal.green153.871.17

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1 See footnote (2) page 8.
2 See footnote (') page 7.