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The following table shows that the London whooping cough death-rate exceeded the
death-rates of all the undermentioned foreign towns both in the period 1890-9 and in the year
1900—
Whooping-cough—Death rates per 1,000 living.
Towns.
1890-9.
1900.
Towns.
1890-9.
1900.
London
0.531
0.431
St. Petersburg
0.24
0.19
Paris
0.15
0.08
Berlin
0.29
0.32
Brussels
0.17
0.13
Vienna
0.09
0.10
Amsterdam
0.33
0.26
Rome
0.07
0.02
Copenhagen
0.37
0.13
New York
0.21
0.17
Stockholm
0.23
0.15
In the distribution of the disease during the year 1900 the death-rate was highest, in the
eastern group of districts (0.58), and lowest in the western group (0.23). Of the several
sanitary districts Limehouse had the highest death-rate (0.97) and St. Martin-in-the-Fields the
lowest (0.08). During the first quarter of the year the central group of districts had the highest
death-rate (0.94) and the western group the lowest (0.19); during the second quarter of the
year the eastern group of districts had the highest death-rate (0.79) and the western the lowest
(0.25); during the third quarter of the year the southern group of districts had the highest deathrate
(0.64) and the western group again the lowest (0.23); during the fourth quarter of the year
the death-rate was highest in the northern and southern groups of districts (0.29) and lowest in
the central group (0.17).
The death-rate in each sanitary district during 1900 and the preceding ten years is
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
35
.39
.28
Shoreditch
48
.81
.41
Kensington
33
.37
.19
Bethnal-green
94
.71
.73
Hammersmith
10
.49
.09
Whitechapel
23
.43
.29
Fulham
54
.58
.41
St. George-in-the-East
27
.61
.55
Chelsea
18
.52
.19
Limehouse
56
.91
.97
St. George, Hanoversquare
11
.27
.14
Mile-end Old-town
58
.64
.52
Poplar
104
.70
.62
Westminster
15
.42
.29
St. Saviour, Southwark
12
.66
.51
St. James
2
.32
.09
St. George, Southwark
43
.79
.71
Marylebone
55
.39
.41
Newington
65
.71
.53
Hampstead
9
.27
.11
St. Olave
8
.61
.75
Pancras
105
.53
.45
Bermondsey
64
.65
.78
Islington
147
.55
.44
Rotherhithe
22
.60
.57
Stoke Newington
11
.49
.32
Lambeth
98
.53
.33
Hackney
112
.51
Battersea
108
.58
.64
St. Giles
14
.41
.40
Wandsworth
44
.43
.19
St. Martin-in-theFields
1
.29
.08
Camberwell
122
.52
.47
Greenwich
111
.54
.61
Strand
5
.39
.24
Lewisham
52
.35
.41
Holbom
11
.65
.37
Woolwich
15
.45
.36
Clerkenwell
52
.68
.81
Lee
9
.32
.20
St. Luke
35
.67
.92
Plumstead
27
.44
.40
London, City of
3
.23
.11
London
1.948
532
.432
Typhus.
The deaths from typhus in the Administrative County of London during the year 1900
numbered two. The death-rates from this disease in 1900 and previous periods were as follows—
Typhus—death-rates per 1,000 living.
Period.
Death-rate per
1,000 living.
Period.
Death-rate per
1,000 living.
1871-80
.055
1895
.0012
1881-90
.008
1896
.0012
1891
.0022
1897
.0002
1892
.0032
1898
.0012
1893
.0012
1899
.0002
1894
.0012
1900
.ooo2
In this table .000 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of .0005.
1 See footnote (2), page 5. 2See footnote (1), page 5.