[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 20

London County Council 1903

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Measles.
The deaths from measles in the administrative county of Londou during 1903 (52 weeks)
numbered 2,046, as compared with 2,360 in 1902.
The death-rates from this disease per 1,000 living in 1903 and preceding periods have been
as follows—

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

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Measles— Death-rates per1,000living,

1851-60	0.53	1896	0.821
1861-70	0.58	1897	0.431
1871-80	0.51	1898	0.691
1881-90	0.64	1899	0.481
1891	0.431	1900	0.431
1892	0.791	1901	0.431
1893	0.381	1902	0.511
1894	0.761	1903	0.441
1895	0.601

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The death-rate in each year since 1840 in relation to the mean death-rate of the period
1841-1903 is shown in diagram VI.
If the London measles death-rate be compared with the death-rates of the following large
English towns, it will be seen that in the period 1893-1902 the London death-rate exceeded the
death-rate of all except Manchester, West Ham, Salford and Newcastle, and in 1903 it exceeded
all except Manchester, Sheffield, West Ham and Salford—

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Towns.	1893-1902.	1903.	Towns.	1893-1902.	1903.
London	0.552	0.452	Bradford	0.36	0.05
Liverpool	0.50	0.18	West Ham	0.62	0.49
Manchester	0.75	0.63	Hull	0.53	0.42
Birmingham	0.44	0.36	Nottingham	0.35	0.39
Leeds	0.53	0.28	Salford	0.86	0.58
Sheffield	0.53	0.79	Newcastle	0.58	0.05
Bristol	0.45	0.03	Leicester	0.36	0.34

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The following table shows that the measles death-rate in London both in the period
1893-1902 and in 1903 exceeded that of any of the undermentioned foreign towns except
St. Petersburg—

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Towns.	1893-1902.	1903.	Towns.	1893-1902.	1903.
London	0.552	0.452	St. Petersburg	0.56	0.69
Paris	0.30	0.17	Berlin	0.20	0.18
Brussels	0.28	0.15	Vienna	0.52	0.22
Amsterdam	0.24	0.24	Rome	0.36	0.13
Copenhagen	0.20	0.12	New York	0.22	0.14
Stockholm	0.17	0.24

Table: The following table shows the deaths and death-rates from measles in 1903 (52 weeks) in each of the metropolitan boroughs—

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The following table shows the deaths and death-rates from measles in 1903 (52 weeks) in each of the metropolitan boroughs—

Metropolitan borough.	Deaths in 1903.	Death-rate per 1,000 living, 1903.	Metropolitan borough.	Deaths in 1903.	Death-rate per l,0(i0 living, 1903
Paddington	40	0.27	Shoreditch	102	0.87
Kensington	34	0.19	Bethnal.green	85	0.66
Hammersmith	27	0.23	Stepney	173	0.57
Fulham	62	0.42	Poplar	161	0.95
Chelsea	14	0.19	Southwark	83	0.40
Westminster, City of	49	0.27	Bermondsey	51	0.39
St. Marylebone	37	0.28	Lambeth	130	0.42
Hampstead	8	0.09	Battersea	108	0.62
St. Pancras	193	0.83	Wandsworth	107	0.43
Islingtou	125	0.37	Camberwell	81	0.31
Stoke Newington	24	0.46	Deptford	62	0.55
Hackney	113	0.51	Greenwich	28	0.28
Holborn	18	0.31	Lewisham	34	0.25
Finsbury	69	0.69	Woolwich	25	0.21
London, City of	3	0.12	London	2,046	0.441

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1 See footnote (1), page 7. 1 See footnote (2), page 7.

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

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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 1903 (52 weeks) in each of the metropolitan boroughs—

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