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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The death-rates in each sanitary district of London in the period 1890-99 and in the year 1900 (52 weeks) are shown in the following table—
Sanitary district. | Deaths in 1900. | Death-rate per 1,000 living. | Sanitary district. | Deaths in 1900. | Death-rate per 1,000 living. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1890-9. | 1900. | 1890-9. | 1900. | ||||
Paddington | 50 | .39 | .39 | Whitechapel | 31 | .72 | .40 |
Kensington | 98 | .47 | .57 | St. George - in - the -Bast | 20 | 1.10 | .41 |
Hammersmith | 90 | .55 | .81 | ||||
Fulham | 81 | .72 | .61 | Limehouse | 83 | 1.08 | 1.43 |
Chelsea | 33 | .54 | .35 | Mile-end Old-town | 60 | .72 | .54 |
St. George, Hanover-square | 6 | .32 | .08 | Poplar | 78 | .79 | .46 |
St. Saviour, South-wark | 10 | .96 | .43 | ||||
Westminster | 20 | .55 | .38 | ||||
St. James | 6 | .49 | .28 | St. George, South-wark | 36 | .96 | .59 |
Marylebone | 49 | .57 | .37 | ||||
Hampstead | 21 | .27 | .26 | Newington | 70 | .76 | .58 |
Pancras | 126 | .56 | .54 | St. Olave | 5 | .70 | .47 |
Islington | 161 | .59 | .48 | Bermondsey | 42 | .83 | .51 |
Stoke Newington | 2 | .06 | Rotherhithe | 40 | .68 | 1.04 | |
Hackney | 33 | .15 | Lambeth | 69 | .55 | .23 | |
St. Giles | 11 | .61 | .31 | Battersea | 78 | .69 | .46 |
St. Martin - in - the -Fields | .40 | ... | Wandsworth | 82 | .41 | .36 | |
Camberwell | 40 | .57 | .16 | ||||
Strand | 5 | .69 | .24 | Greenwich | 58 | .60 | .32 |
Holborn | 21 | .88 | .70 | Lewisham | 22 | .26 | .17 |
Clerken well | 39 | .93 | .61 | Woolwich | 29 | .73 | .70 |
St. Luke | 30 | 1.08 | .79 | Lee | 5 | .27 | .11 |
London, City of | 4 | .27 | .15 | Plumstead | 47 | .54 | .70 |
Shoreditch | 76 | .91 | .64 | ||||
Bethnal-green | 63 | .93 | .49 |
The following table shows the number of deaths1 from measles at several age periods in each of the sanitary districts of the administrative county. For the purposes of this table deaths occurring in public institutions belonging to London have been distributed to the sanitary areas in which the deceased had previously resided—
Age period. | 0— | 1 — | 2— | 3— | 4— | under 5 | 5— | 10— | 15 and wards. | All ages. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Paddington | 12 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 43 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 48 |
Kensington | 26 | 42 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 94 | 4 | — | — | 98 |
Hammersmith | 22 | 38 | 13 | 14 | 3 | 90 | 3 | — | 1 | 94 |
Fulham | 12 | 41 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 77 | 4 | 1 | — | 82 |
Chelsea | 7 | 10 | 11 | 5 | — | 33 | — | — | — | 33 |
St. George. Hanover-square | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | 6 |
Westminster | 2 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 1 | — | 1 | 20 |
St. James | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | 1 | — | — | 6 |
Marylebone | 7 | 25 | 10 | — | 2 | 44 | 3 | 1 | — | 48 |
Hampstead | 7 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 2 | — | — | 22 |
Pancras | 23 | 50 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 116 | 7 | — | 1 | 124 |
Islington | 42 | 63 | 25 | 11 | 9 | 150 | 9 | — | 3 | 162 |
Stoke Newington | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | 3 |
Hackney | 13 | 15 | 3 | 3 | — | 34 | — | — | — | 34 |
St. Giles | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | — | 11 | — | — | — | 11 |
St. Martin-in-the-Fields | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Strand | — | 3 | — | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | — | — | 5 |
Holborn | 7 | 5 | 4 | — | 2 | 18 | 3 | — | — | 21 |
Clerkenwell | 10 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 34 | 5 | — | — | 39 |
St. Luke | 6 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 1 | — | — | 30 |
London, City of | — | 2 | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | 4 |
Shoreditch | 13 | 44 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 74 | 3 | — | — | 77 |
Bethnal-green | 11 | 34 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 63 | 3 | — | — | 66 |
Whitechapel | 12 | 16 | 3 | 1 | — | 32 | — | — | — | 32 |
St. George-in-the-East | 7 | 11 | 1 | — | 1 | 20 | — | — | — | 20 |
Limehouse | 26 | 36 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 82 | 2 | — | — | 84 |
Mile-end Old-town | 14 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 56 | 3 | — | — | 59 |
Poplar | 14 | 22 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 74 | 2 | — | 1 | 77 |
St. Saviour, South wark | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 1 | — | — | 10 | |
St. George, South wark | 6 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 31 | 4 | — | — | 35 |
Newington | 12 | 33 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 65 | 5 | — | — | 70 |
St. Olave | 1 | 5 | — | — | — | 6 | — | — | — | 6 |
Bermondsey | 5 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 44 | — | — | — | 44 |
Rotherhithe | 8 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 39 | 2 | — | — | 41 |
Lambeth | 23 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 68 | 2 | — | — | 70 |
Battersea | 19 | 31 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 72 | 3 | — | 3 | 78 |
Wandsworth | 18 | 33 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 78 | 3 | — | 1 | 82 |
Camberwell | 5 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 37 | 3 | 1 | — | 41 |
Greenwich | 14 | 26 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 59 | 1 | — | — | 60 |
Lewisham | 7 | 8 | 1 | — | 3 | 19 | 2 | — | 1 | 22 |
Woolwich | 9 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 2 | — | — | 30 |
Lee | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | 6 | — | — | — | 6 |
Plumstead | 11 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 44 | 3 | — | — | 47 |
In this table where — is inserted, no deaths occurred. 1 See footnote (*), page 5.