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London County Council 1901

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

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Table: The death rates of this disease per 1,000 living in successive periods have been as follows— Cancer.

The death rates of this disease per 1,000 living in successive periods have been as follows— Cancer.

1851-60.421895.83
1861-70.481896.86
1871-80.551897.88
1881-90.681898.92
1891.781899.95
1892.751900.95
1893..01901.93
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The following table shows the number of deaths from cancer at several age-periods in
each of the metropolitan boroughs included in the administrative county. For the purposes of
this table, deaths occurring in public institutions belonging to London have been distributed to
the areas in which the deceased had previously resided. (See footnote (1), page 9.)

Table: Cancer (365 days).

Cancer (365 days).

Age period—0-5-10-15-20-25-35-45-55-65-75-85 & up.All ages.
Paddington111520364226152149
Kensington---2-614415346351198
Hammersmith----1462326269-95
Fulham1—-—248233224244122
Chelsea-----241617187367
Westminster, City of---—131746412518-151
St. Marylebone-1-1—27264834163138
Hampstead-----3218232010379
St. Pancras1--22122496943171207
Islington21—1-1136648080274306
Stoke Newington--1--161114104-47
Hackney-12--515425442132176
Holborn2——2—351319113159
Finsbury1--2-6111917148179
London, City of--1---267134134
Shoreditch---123132924195-96
Bethnal-green1--124133426246-111
Stepney1-3-1923495955181219
Poplar--12—21725491611—123
Southwark21---1123385634121178
Bermondsey-----4924192210-88
Lambeth-1222627738367343300
Battersea—111-416174340131137
Wandsworth-1-1—820496244213209
Camberwell5-12—123476880214252
Deptford1--26102121217190
Greenwich---13111219129-67
Lewisham21-1146203142113122
Woolwich-----3122022206-83
London1981322181243988911,124928394433,982

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Bubonic Plague.
The occurrences of plague in this country during 1901 showed that there was risk of
the disease being introduced into London and emphasised the need for the maintenance of
the provision the Council had made in the event of the disease being introduced into London.
In January a man died of plague in Cardiff. lie had been working at some grain stores in the
West Bute Bock. An unusual mortality was observed among the rats in the neighbourhood of
the stores, and in one of two rats found dead Br. W. G. Savage found plague bacilli in large numbers.
In the same month eight cases of plague occurred in connection with the ss. " Friary," in
Hull, which had arrived in that port from Alexandria with the body of a man who had died 12
hours before arrival from an illness regarded as " influenza." The disease was of tho pneumonic
form, and the cases comprised (including the man who died before arrival) seven of the crew, a
watchman, and the medical man who had attended the first two sailors who sickened while the
vessel was in Hull. Among the nine there were eight deaths. In March a Lascar from the
" Simla," which had arrived from South Africa, was admitted into the South Hants Hospital for
treatment of an abscess in his groin. Plague bacilli were found in the pus. At the end of August
and in September five cases of plague occurred in Glasgow. The first person to be attacked was a
man who worked on the third floor of a building, on the ground floor of which lived a man and
two children, who were attacked, and lastly, the attendant at the reception house, who bathed
them, suffered from plague. The three adults and one of the children died. A plague-infected
rat was later discovered in an adjoining yard. The locality in which these cases occurred was
1 See footnote (2), page 9.
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