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Age.period.
0—
1—
2—
3—
4—
under
5
5— i
L0.
15 and
upwards.
All
ages.
Shoreditch 12 42 10 5 3 72 3 — — 75
Bethnal.green 16 37 15 9 5 82 5 1 — 88
Stepney 45 65 28 21 2 161 3 — — 164
Poplar 18 37 18 7 6 86 2 — — 88
Southwark 35 74 30 12 6 157 5 — — 162
Bermondsey 13 37 14 9 6 79 — — — 79
Lambeth 24 46 20 13 7 110 11 — — 121
Battersea 27 53 31 9 9 129 3 — — 132
Wandsworth 15 28 8 7 3 61 4 — — 65
Camberwell 30 51 37 16 10 144 6 — — 150
Deptford 8 26 12 1 3 50 1 — — 51
Greenwich 14 17 14 4 2 51 3 — 1 55
Lewisham 10 10 5 2 1 28 4 — — 32
Woolwich 4 8 2 4 2 20 2 — — 22
London 402 795 351 187 101 1,836 95 1 4 1,936
In this table where — is inserted no death occurred.
Iu any comparison of the distribution of measles mortality in different parts of London
due regard should be paid to the fact that the mortality from this disease is almost wholly confined
to children under five years of age. Thus, in the year 1901, in London, out of 1,936 deaths
from this disease at "all ages," 1,836 deaths, or 94.8 per cent. occurred among children aged 0.5
years. It will be seen, therefore, that the measles death rate among children of this age affords
a much more reliable indication of the relative mortality from this disease, when the rates obtaining
in the metropolitan boroughs are compared, than does the measles death rate at "all ages,"
owing to the considerable variations in the proportion of young children, which exist in different
parts of the London population. Having regard to this fact, the following table showing the
measles death rates among children under five years of age in the several metropolitan boroughs
is of interest—

In view of what has been already stated in reference to the variations in the proportion of
children aged 0.5 in the several metropolitan boroughs, it is interesting to compare the relative
positions occupied by these boroughs in respect of measles mortality, (a) when the death rates at
"all ages" are compared, and (b) when the death rates at asres 0.5 are made the subject of comparison.