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London County Council 1898

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

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Table: The case-rate of each district in 1891-7 and in 1898, and the death-rates in 1888-97 and in 1898, are shown in the following tables—

The case-rate of each district in 1891-7 and in 1898, and the death-rates in 1888-97 and in 1898, are shown in the following tables—

Sanitary district.Cases, 1898.Case-rate per 1,000 living.Deaths, 1898.Death-rate per 1,000 living.
1891-7.1898.1888-97.1898.
Paddington2602.12.061.46.48
Kensington2221.81.326.42.15
Hammersmith1642.31.523.51.21
Fulham4762.63.861.48.49
Chelsea2732.92.841.50.43
St. George, Hanover-square1111.41.410.32.12
Westminster1271.82.422.42.42
St. James431.61.95.25.23
Marylebone2351.81.745.34.32
Hampstead1351.81.719.30.24
Pancras4992.22.196.47.40
Islington5452.51.690.45.26
Stoke Newington542.81.65.49.14
Hackney8744.0120.55
St. Giles411.41.16.34.16
St. Martin-in-the-Fields81.30.63.35.24
Strand491.62.14.32.17
Holborn1472.54.922.44.73
Clerkenwell2653.24.036.54.55
St. Luke1922.54.724.46.59
London, City of461.71.610.33.34
Shoreditch2552.62.144.56.36
Bethnal-green3404.12.662.76.48
Whitechapel1873.32.320.62.25
St. George-in-the-East1133.92.314.77.29
Limehouse1373.12.326.65.44
Mile-end Old-town2943.32.663.61.56
Poplar4684.22.889.58.52
St. Saviour, Southwark1152.84.715.48.61
St. George, Southwark2452.44.136.47.60
Newington4652.53.872.45.59
St. Olave162.21.43.34.27
Bermondsey2682.23.144.47.51
Rotherhithe422.51.011.47.27
Lambeth8232.22.7114.45.38
Battersea8003.04.7120.44.70
Wandsworth6021.93.089.44
Camberwell6953.12.787.52.33
Greenwich5553.13.144.52.24
Lewisham3112.22.830.34.27
Woolwich1091.22.619.29.46
Lee1622.04.114.30.35
Plumstead1111.815.56.24
Port of London4–––––
London11,8832.62.61,760.481391

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To enable the variations in diphtheria prevalence and mortality in the several sanitary
districts of London to be better appreciated the following tables (A) and (B) have been prepared.
Table (A) shows (1) the diphtheria case-rates per 10,000 living in the several sanitary districts of
London for each of the years 1892-98 inclusive, and (2) the comparative case-rates of each district
in these years, i.e., the case-rates of each district in each year shown in relation to the London
case-rate of the same year, the London case-rate being taken as 100. Table (B) shows, similarly,
the comparative death-rates of the several sanitary districts for each of the years 1887-98, inclusive,
the London death-rate for each year being taken as 100—

Table: (A.) Diphtheria—Casemates per 10,000 living and comparative case rates (London-rate taken as in sanitary districts in each of the years 1892-8. 100)

(A.) Diphtheria—Casemates per 10,000 living and comparative case rates (London-rate taken as in sanitary districts in each of the years 1892-8. 100)

Sanitary district.Case-rates per 10,000 living.Comparative case-rates (London case-rates taken as 100).
1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.1898.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.1898
Paddington14243219192620707512373618777
Kensington1122172221191355696585686350
Hammersmith32271820211515160846977685058
Fulham11243136303238557511913897107146

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1 See footnote (1) page 3.