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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| Towns. | 1894-1903. | 1904. | Towns. | 1894-1903. | 1904. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 0.041 | 0.01 | Bradford | 0.02 | 0.01 |
| Liverpool | 0.03 | 0.00 | West Ham | 0.08 | 0.00 |
| Manchester | 0.01 | 0.02 | Hull | 0.07 | 0.02 |
| Birmingham | 0.04 | - | Nottingham | 0.00 | 0.05 |
| Leeds | 0.01 | 0.00 | Salford | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| Sheffield | 0.00 | 0.00 | Newcastle | 0.01 | 0.08 |
| Bristol | 0.01 | 0.00 | Leicester | 0.01 | 0.02 |
In this table 0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.00; where no death occurred is
inserted.
The following table shows that the London smallpox death-rate was in the decennium 1894-1903 higher than that of any of the undermentioned foreign towns except Paris and St. Petersburg, and in the year 1904 was exceeded by the death-rates of Paris, Brussels and St. Petersburg.
| Towns. | 1894-1903. | 1904. | Towns. | 1894-1903. | 1904. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 0.041 | oor | St. Petersburg | 0'10 | 006 |
| Paris | 0.04 | 0'03 | Berlin | 0.00 | - |
| Brussels | 0.03 | 0-02 | Vienna | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Amsterdam | 0.00 | 0-01 | Rome | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Copenhagen | 0.00 | - | New York | 0.03 | 0.00 |
| Stockholm | 0.00 | - |
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In this table 0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.00; where no death occurred is
inserted.
The following table shows the smallpox cases, deaths, case- rates, and death-rates in the year 1904, the case-rates in the decennium 1894-1903, and the death-rates in the period 1901-3 in the several sanitary areas of the Administrative County-
| Sanitary area. | Cases, 1904. | Case-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Deaths, 1904. | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1894-1903. | 1904. | 1901-1903. | 1904. | |||
| Paddington | 4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.05 | 0.01 |
| Kensington | 3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.02 | 0.01 |
| Hammersmith | - | 0.2 | - | - | 0.08 | - |
| Fulham | - | 01 | - | - | 0.04 | - |
| Chelsea | - | 0.1 | - | - | 0.03 | - |
| Westminster, City of | 6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | - | 0.11 | - |
| St. Marylebone | 8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | - | 0.08 | - |
| Hampstead | 1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | - | 0.02 | - |
| St. Pancras | 7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | - | 0.17 | - |
| Islington | 18 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.06 | 0.00 |
| Stoke Newington | 8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | - | 0.07 | - |
| Hackney | 13 | 0.3 | 0.1 | - | 0.11 | - |
| Holborn | 6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.43 | 0.04 |
| Finsbury | 15 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.14 | 0.03 |
| London, City of | 2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | - | 0.12 | - |
| Shoreditch | 14 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.22 | 0.02 |
| Bethnal-green | 126 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 7 | 0.17 | 0.05 |
| Stepney | 89 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 3 | 0.31 | 0.01 |
| Poplar | 42 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.20 | 0.02 |
| Southwark | 28 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.15 | 0.00 |
| Bermondsey | 19 | 0.3 | 0.1 | - | 0.11 | - |
| Lambeth | 27 | 0.2 | 0.1 | - | 0.07 | - |
| Battersea | 7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | - | 0.05 | - |
| Wandsworth | 6 | 0.1 | 0.0 | - | 0.04 | - |
| Camberwell | 19 | 0.2 | 0.1 | - | 0.09 | - |
| Deptford | , 11 | 0.2 | 0.1 | - | 0.10 | - |
| Greenwich | 1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | - | 0.08 | - |
| Lewisham | - | 0.1 | - | - | 0.03 | - |
| Woolwich | 8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | - | 0.11 | - |
| Port of London | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| London | 489 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 25 | 0.113 | 0.012 |
In this table 0.0 indicates that the cases were too few to give a rate of 0.05; whore no cases occurred is
inserted.
1 See footnote (2), page 7. 8 See footnote (1), page 7.