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Whooping cough—Death rate per 1,000 living.
Towns.
1887-96.
1897.
Towns.
1887-96.
1897.
London
0.59
0.411
West Ham
0.59
0.36
Manchester
0.61
0.56
Bristol
0.46
0.50
Liverpool
0.64
0.56
Nottingham
0.46
0.49
Birmingham
0.60
0.44
Bradford
0.49
0.19
Leeds
0.45
0.24
Hull
0.39
0.25
Sheffield
0.53
0.40
Salford
0.73
0.53
The following table shows that the London death rate from whooping cough exceeded the death
rates of all the undermentioned foreign cities, both in the period 1887-96 and in the year 1897.
Whooping cough—Death rate per 1,000 living.
Towns.
1887-96.
1897.
Towns.
1887-96.
1897.
London
.59
.411
St. Petersburg
.25
.09
Paris
.16
.11
Berlin
.29
.25
Brussels
.19
.10
Vienna
.10
.06
Amsterdam
.36
.23
Rome
.08
.06
Copenhagen
.44
.13
New York
.25
.15
Stockholm
.25
.04
In the distribution of this disease during the year the mortality has been highest in the central
group of districts, and lowest in the western group. During the year, Clerkenwell suffered most
heavily of all the districts, and Kensington was least affected. In the first and second quarters the
mortality was highest in the central group, and lowest in the western; in the third quarter, the central
group had again the highest death rate, while the southern had the lowest; and in the fourth quarter
the mortality was highest in the eastern group of districts and lowest in the western group.
The death rate of each district in 1897 and in the preceding ten years is shown in the following
table:—
Sanitary district.
Deaths
in 1897.
Death rate per
1,000 living.
Sanitary district.
Deaths
in 1897.
Death rate per
1,000 living.
1887-96.
1897.
1887-96.
1897.
Paddington
44
.39
.35
Shoreditch
63
.87
.52
Kensington
19
.43
.11
Bethnal-green
57
.79
.44
Hammersmith
28
.62
.26
Whitechapel
16
.47
.20
Fulham
61
.51
St. George-in-the-East
24
.60
.50
Chelsea
41
.58
.43
Limehouse
37
.95
.63
St. George, Hanoversquare
13
.30
.16
Mile-end Old-town
58
.73
.52
Poplar
83
.75
.49
Westminster
16
.50
.30
St. Saviour, Southwark
12
.71
.48
St. James
6
.38
.27
St. George, Southwark
32
.88
.53
Marylebone
41
.45
.29
Newington
82
.78
.67
Hampstead
25
.28
.32
St. Olave
8
.60
.70
Pancras
124
.58
.51
Bermondsey
62
.73
.73
Islington
134
.60
.39
Rotherhithe
17
.67
.42
Stoke Newington
15
.54
.44
Lambeth
144
.57
.48
Hackney
97
.45
Battersea
79
.58
.47
St. Giles
18
.45
.48
Wandsworth
42
.22
St. Martin - in - the
Fields
5
.34
.39
Camberwell
111
.63
.43
Greenwich
57
.62
.32
Strand
6
.52
.26
Lewisham
30
.42
.28
Holborn
19
.65
.62
Woolwich
8
.47
.19
Clerkenwell
49
.72
.74
Lee
5
.44
.13
St. Luke
28
.70
.68
Plumstead
22
.36
London, City of
10
.25
.33
London
1,848
.59
.412
Typhus.
During the year 1897 four cases of typhus were notified, and one death from this cause was
registered in the administrative County of London.
The death rates from this disease per 1,000 living in 1897 and in preceding periods are as
follows—
1871-80 0.55
1881-90 0.08
1891 .0022
1892 .0032
1893 .0012
1894 .0012
1895 .0012
1896 .0012
1897 .0002
1 See footnote (2), page 7.
2 See footnote (1), page 7.