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London County Council 1898

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

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Table:

Sanitary district.Deaths under one year of age.Deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births.
1888-97.1898.
Stoke Newington91138108
Hackney981152
St. Giles141149137
St. Martin-in-the-Fields28191156
Strand85195171
Holborn178199221
Clerkenwell406176196
St. Luke278150150
London, City of60146128
Shoreditch838173196
Bethnal-green877162184
Whitechapel449157144
St. George-in-thc-Eust407191195
Limehonse398184208
Mile-end Old-town664152155
Poplar1,126160191
St. Saviour, Southwark156186211
St. George, Southwark402187188
Newington721173173
St. Olave47161132
Bermondsey485161157
Rotherhithe220158169
Lambeth1,425144154
Battersea855160166
Wandsworth748133144
Camberwell1,191151160
Greenwich988150176
Lewisham454137165
Woolwich217152173
Lee143119160
Plumstead293155
London22,01315511661

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The eastern group of districts had the highest infant mortality (181), the northern the lowest
(153), the infant mortality of the western, southern and central groups being 170, 163 and 170
respectively. Of the districts, Holborn had the highest (221) and Stoke Newington the lowest infant
mortality (108).

Table: Deaths from several classes of disease. Deaths from the several classes of disease registered in the registration County of London (including the lunatic asylums and hospitals for infectious disease belonging to the county) are given by the Registrar-General in the Annual Summary of Births, Deaths and Causes of Death, and the following table has been prepared from the figures contained in the summary relating to the year 1898—

Deaths from several classes of disease. Deaths from the several classes of disease registered in the registration County of London (including the lunatic asylums and hospitals for infectious disease belonging to the county) are given by the Registrar-General in the Annual Summary of Births, Deaths and Causes of Death, and the following table has been prepared from the figures contained in the summary relating to the year 1898—

Causes of death.Corrected annual average 1888-97.1898.
Zymotic diseases14,68114,891
Parasitic „7347
Dietetic „587730
Constitutional diseases17,09716,836
Developmental „5.6465,836
Nervous „9,3988,136
Diseases of organs of special sense163206
Diseases of the circulatory system7,1876,813
Respiratory diseases18,51614,706
Diseases of the Digestive system5,0456,020
,, ,, Lymphatic „117114
Urinary2,3232,411
,, ,, Generative ,,552445
„ „ Locomotive ,,327210
„ ,, Integumentary system307330
Violence (accident)2,8683,003
Violence (other than accident)522511
Other causes3,0332,691
All Causes88,44283,936

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1 See footnote (1), page 3.