[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 46

London County Council 1902

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

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Measles.
The deaths from measles in the administrative county of London during 1902 (53 weeks)
numbered 2,360, as compared with 1,952 in 1901.
The death-rates from this disease per 1,000 living in 1902 and preceding periods have been
as follows—

Table: Measles—Death-rates per 1,000 living.

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Measles—Death-rates per 1,000 living.

1851-60	0.53	1895	0.60¹
1861-70	0.58	1896	0.82¹
1871-80	0.51	1897	0.43¹
1881-90	0.64	1898	0.69¹
1891	0.43¹	1899	0.48¹
1892	0.79¹	1900	0.43¹
1893	0.38¹	1901	0.43¹
1894	0.76¹	1902	0.51¹

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The death-rate in each year since 1840 in relation to the mean death-rate of the period
1841-1902 is shown in diagram VIII.
If the London death-rate be compared with the death-rates of the following large English
towns it will be seen that in the period 1892-1901 the London death-rate exceeded the deathrate
of all except Manchester, Salford and West Ham, and in 1902 it exceeded all except Bristol,
Bradford, Hull, Salford and Newcastle.

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Towns.	1892-1901.	1902.	Towns.	1892-1901.	1902.
London	0.58²	0.51²	Nottingham	0.40	0.02
Manchester	0.78	0.44	Bradford	0.33	0.56
Liverpool	0.54	0.48	Hull	0.52	0.83
Birmingham	0.48	0.34	Salford	0.94	0.69
Leeds	0.51	0.42	West Ham	0.66	0.50
Sheffield	0.56	0.45	Leicester	0.39	0.34
Bristol	0.38	1.22	Newcastle	0.55	0.63

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The following table shows that the measles death-rate in London exceeded that of any
of the undermentioned foreign towns in the period 1892-1901, and in 1902 was only exceeded
by that of Amsterdam, St. Petersburg: and Home.

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Towns.	1892-1901.	1902.	Towns.	1892-1901.	1902.
London	0.58²	0.51²	St. Petersburg	0.57	0.52
Paris	0.32	0.25	Berlin	0.20	0.19
Brussels	0.30	0.20	Vienna	0.53	0.44
Amsterdam	0.17	0.88	Home	0.28	0.94
Copenhagen	0.23	0.21	New York	0.25	0.20
Stockholm	0.17	0.08

Table: The following table shows the deaths and death-rates from measles in 1902 in each of the metropolitan boroughs—

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The following table shows the deaths and death-rates from measles in 1902 in each of the metropolitan boroughs—

Metropolitan borough.	Deaths in 1902.	Death-rate per 1,000 living, 1902.	Metropolitan borough.	Deaths in 1902.	Death-rate per 1,000 living, 1902.
Paddington	83	0.56	Shoreditch	88	0.73
Kensington	93	0.52	Bethnal.green	59	0.45
Hammersmith	77	0.66	Stepney	164	0.54
Fulham	168	1.16	Poplar	69	0.40
Chelsea	67	0.89	Southwark	164	0.78
Westminster, City of	42	0.23	Bermondsey	155	1.17
St. Marylebone	97	0.72	Lambeth	83	0.27
Hampsted	15	0.18	Battersea	101	0.58
St. Pancras	113	0.47	Wandsworth	97	0.39
Islington	116	0.34	Camberwell	121	0.45
Stoke Newington	5	0.10	Deptford	74	0.65
Hackney	78	0.35	Greenwich	41	0.41
Holborn	30	0.50	Lewisham	27	0.20
Finsbury	83	0.81	Woolwich	40	0.33
London, City of	10	0.38	London	2,360	0.51¹

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1 See footnote (1), page 12.
2 See footnote (2), page 13.

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Table: Measles—Death-rates per 1,000 living.

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Table: Measles—Death-rates per1,000living.

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Table: Measles—Death-rates per1,000living.

Table: The following table shows the deaths and death-rates from measles in 1902 in each of the metropolitan boroughs—

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