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 following table from the annual summary of the Registrar-General shows in a summary form the excess and defect in the year 1902 under certain of the more important headings in the list of causes of death as compared with the corrected average in the previous ten years—
Cause of death. | Diminution in 1902. | Excess in 1902. |
---|---|---|
Smallpox | — | 1,245 |
Measles | 349 | — |
Scarlet fever | 302 | — |
Typhus | 5 | — |
Influenza | 358 | — |
Whooping cough | 291 | — |
Diphtheria | 1,107 | — |
Pyrexia (origin uncertain) | 6 | — |
Enteric fever | 72 | — |
Diarrhœa | 1,253 | — |
Phthisis and other tuberculous diseases (including scrofula) | 1,439 | — |
Cancer | — | 608 |
Premature birth | — | 59 |
*Diseases of nervous system | 743 | — |
*Diseases of circulatory system | ||
†Diseases of respiratory system | 1,242 | — |
Diseases of urinary system | — | 214 |
Childbirth and puerperal septic diseases | 88 | — |
Accident | 280 | — |
Homicide | — | 2 |
Suicide | — | 52 |
All other causes | 1,378 | — |
Net diminution or excess | 6,733 | — |
Comparison can be made of certain causes of death in London sanitary areas by reference
to the following table. The death-rates shown in the table are fully corrected for deaths in
institutions. (See footnote (1), p. 12), and in the case of phthisis and cancer "factors for correction
for differences in age and sex constitution" have been calculated, and these factors and
the corrected death-rates are shown on pp. 66 and 69.
Metropolitan Boroughs. | Measles. | Rheumatic fever. | Carcinoma. | Sarcoma. | Cancer. | Tabes mesenterica. | Tubercular meningitis. | Phthisis. | Other tubercular diseases. | Pneumonia. | Other respiratory diseases. | All other causes. | All causes. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Paddington | 56 | 7 | 50 | 6 | 40 | 11 | 17 | 107 | 12 | 125 | 170 | 852 | 1,453 |
Kensington | 52 | 8 | 41 | 7 | 41 | 5 | 21 | 122 | 20 | 157 | 175 | 880 | 1,529 |
Hammersmith | 67 | 4 | 39 | 5 | 41 | 9 | 18 | 143 | 14 | 151 | 164 | 972 | 1,627 |
Fulham | 117 | 8 | 43 | 2 | 30 | 13 | 28 | 140 | 19 | 206 | 167 | 939 | 1,712 |
Chelsea | 92 | 5 | 53 | 8 | 45 | 5 | 18 | 145 | 20 | 212 | 193 | 997 | 1,793 |
Westminster, City of | 23 | 8 | 48 | 8 | 51 | 8 | 16 | 178 | 14 | 171 | 175 | 893 | 1,593 |
St. Marylebone | 74 | 11 | 53 | 6 | 51 | 15 | 17 | 187 | 18 | 154 | 213 | 1,008 | 1,807 |
Hampstead | 17 | 4 | 69 | 13 | 29 | 6 | 16 | 90 | 7 | 75 | 106 | 650 | 1,082 |
St. Pancras | 46 | 8 | 56 | 6 | 41 | 15 | 23 | 191 | 22 | 203 | 158 | 1,086 | 1,855 |
Islington | 32 | 8 | 52 | 6 | 40 | 14 | 23 | 149 | 12 | 159 | 188 | 962 | 1,645 |
Stoke Newington | 8 | 12 | 35 | 2 | 48 | 12 | 21 | 124 | 21 | 118 | 141 | 787 | 1,329 |
Hackney | 33 | 9 | 32 | 5 | 51 | 17 | 25 | 144 | 26 | 141 | 132 | 879 | 1,494 |
Holborn | 53 | 7 | 53 | 7 | 48 | 19 | 24 | 301 | 19 | 251 | 260 | 1,111 | 2,153 |
Finsbury | 81 | 7 | 40 | 3 | 38 | 25 | 27 | 228 | 26 | 201 | 315 | 1,290 | 2,281 |
London, City of | 39 | — | 70 | 12 | 74 | 4 | 31 | 156 | 16 | 234 | 207 | 1,181 | 2,024 |
Shoreditch | 73 | 12 | 50 | 6 | 48 | 11 | 37 | 181 | 31 | 167 | 236 | 1,226 | 2,078 |
Bethnal-green | 45 | 5 | 58 | 7 | 18 | 22 | 26 | 199 | 28 | 223 | 276 | 1,164 | 2,071 |
Stepney | 55 | 6 | 41 | 5 | 21 | 20 | 32 | 188 | 34 | 232 | 207 | 1,211 | 2,052 |
Poplar | 40 | 9 | 48 | 5 | 32 | 24 | 24 | 174 | 17 | 154 | 234 | 1,164 | 1,925 |
Southwark | 79 | 9 | 58 | 6 | 20 | 22 | 28 | 260 | 28 | 258 | 203 | 1,168 | 2,139 |
Bermondsey | 117 | 16 | 55 | 9 | 31 | 18 | 36 | 181 | 26 | 256 | 201 | 1,118 | 2,064 |
Lambeth | 25 | 8 | 45 | 10 | 46 | 14 | 26 | 169 | 21 | 200 | 170 | 1,006 | 1,740 |
Battersea | 59 | 11 | 42 | 5 | 39 | 13 | 15 | 130 | 13 | 128 | 183 | 851 | 1,489 |
Wandsworth | 41 | 8 | 46 | 5 | 42 | 11 | 16 | 94 | 13 | 115 | 108 | 854 | 1,353 |
Camberwell | 46 | 7 | 44 | 8 | 43 | 11 | 25 | 154 | 15 | 150 | 170 | 956 | 1,629 |
Deptford | 63 | 5 | 49 | 9 | 38 | 10 | 25 | 107 | 19 | 117 | 163 | 1,023 | 1,628 |
Greenwich | 39 | 7 | 44 | 9 | 33 | 23 | 16 | 120 | 14 | 134 | 163 | 952 | 1,554 |
Lewisham | 20 | 11 | 59 | 4 | 35 | 11 | 17 | 107 | 18 | 98 | 112 | 863 | 1,355 |
Woolwich | 32 | 3 | 40 | 3 | 43 | 12 | 20 | 150 | 12 | 100 | 136 | 948 | 1,499 |
* For purposes of comparison deaths from infective endocarditis are included under this heading, † For purposes of comparison deaths from epidemic pneumonia are included under this heading. |