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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Phthisis.
The death-rates from this disease in successive periods per 1000 living have been as follows :—
1851-60 | 2.86 | 1901 | l.66 |
1861-70 | 2.84 | 1902 | 1.601 |
1871-80 | 2.51 | 1903 | 1.551 |
1881-90 | 2.09 | 1904 | 1.621 |
1891-1900 | 1.84 |
The following table shows the crude phthisis death-rate corrected for differences in the age and
sex constitution of the various sanitary districts. The factors for correction, also shown in the table,
have been calculated by applying the population at each age and for each sex of each of the London
sanitary districts to the death-rates at each age and for each sex obtaining for London in the five years
1897-1901 —
Sanitary area. | Standard death rate. | Factor for correction for age and sex distri-tribution. | Crude death-rate. | Corrected death-rate. | Comparative mortality figure. (London 1,000.) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1901-3. | 1904. | 1901-3. | 1904. | 1901-3. | 1904. | |||
London | ||||||||
Paddington | 1.80 | 0.96659 | 1.07 | 1.20 | 1.03 | 1.16 | 644 | 716 |
Kensington | 1.78 | 0.97419 | 1.30 | 1.44 | 1.27 | 1.40 | 794 | 864 |
Hammersmith | 1.74 | 0.99600 | 1.44 | 1.38 | 1.43 | 1.37 | 894 | 846 |
Fulham | 1.69 | 1.02786 | 1.38 | 1.43 | 1.42 | 1.47 | 887 | 907 |
Chelsea | 1.83 | 0.95018 | 1.57 | 1.82 | 1.49 | 1.73 | 931 | 1,068 |
Westminster, City of | 1.95 | 0.89205 | 1.79 | 1.52 | 1.60 | 1.36 | 1,000 | 840 |
St. Marylebone | 1.85 | 0.93836 | 1.88 | 1.68 | 1.76 | 1.58 | 1,100 | 975 |
Hampstead | 1.75 | 0.98862 | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.82 | 0.82 | 512 | 506 |
St. Pancras | 1.80 | 0.96551 | 1.86 | 1.88 | 1.80 | 1.82 | 1,125 | 1,123 |
Islington | 1.75 | 0.99145 | 1.47 | 1.55 | 1.46 | 1.54 | 912 | 951 |
Stoke Newington | 1.77 | 0.97914 | 1.28 | 1.72 | 1.25 | 1.68 | 781 | 1,037 |
Hackney | 1.68 | 1.02969 | 1.41 | 1.39 | 1.45 | 1.43 | 906 | 883 |
Holborn | 1.97 | 0.87894 | 2.99 | 2.86 | 2.63 | 2.51 | 1,644 | 1,549 |
Finsbury | 1.72 | 1.01050 | 2.25 | 2.39 | 2.27 | 2.42 | 1,419 | 1,494 |
City of London | 1.89 | 0.91946 | 1.86 | 1.58 | 1.71 | 1.45 | 1,069 | 895 |
Shoreditch | 1.66 | 1.04206 | 2.12 | 2.18 | 2.21 | 2.27 | 1,381 | 1,401 |
Bethnal Green | 1.59 | 1.08984 | 2.08 | 2.16 | 2.27 | 2.35 | 1,419 | 1,451 |
Stepney | 1.65 | 1.05281 | 2.03 | 2.12 | 2.14 | 2.23 | 1,337 | 1,377 |
Poplar | 1.66 | 1.04772 | 1.74 | 1.74 | 1.82 | 1.82 | 1,137 | 1,123 |
Southwark | 1.74 | 0.99829 | 2.51 | 2.36 | 2.51 | 2.36 | 1,569 | 1,457 |
Bermondsey | 1.65 | 1.05026 | 1.80 | 2.12 | 1.89 | 2.23 | 1,181 | 1,377 |
Lambeth | 1.75 | 0.99258 | 1.58 | 1.45 | 1.57 | 1.44 | 981 | 889 |
Battersea | 1.69 | 1.02483 | 1.35 | 1.42 | 1.38 | 1.46 | 862 | 901 |
Wandsworth | 1.72 | 1.01050 | 1.00 | 1.12 | 1.01 | 1.13 | 631 | 698 |
Camberwell | 1.68 | 1.03522 | 1.40 | 1.37 | 1.45 | 1.42 | 906 | 877 |
Deptford | 1.69 | 1.02969 | 1.22 | 1.42 | 1.26 | 1.46 | 787 | 901 |
Greenwich | 1.67 | 1.04143 | 1.16 | 1.33 | 1.21 | 1.39 | 756 | 858 |
Lewisham | 1.69 | 1.02543 | 0.60 | 0.90 | 0.62 | 0.92 | 387 | 568 |
Woolwich | 1.70 | 1.01881 | 1.57 | 1.67 | 1.60 | 1.70 | 1,000 | 1,049 |
The following table shows the number of deaths from phthisis at several age periods in each of
the sanitary areas. For the purposes of this table deaths occurring in public institutions belonging to
London have been distributed to the sanitary areas in which the deceased had previously resided (see
footnoted), page 7).
Age-period. | 0- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- | 85 and upwards | All ages. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Paddington | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 21 | 38 | 32 | 42 | 17 | ll | 1 | 179 | |
Kensington | 14 | 2 | 6 | 19 | 13 | 51 | 55 | 54 | 22 | 14 | — | 1 | 251 |
Hammersmith | 6 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 37 | 45 | 29 | 12 | — | 1 | — | 160 |
Fulham | 7 | 5 | — | 12 | 25 | 48 | 65 | 31 | 19 | 5 | . — | — | 217 |
Chelsea | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 30 | 30 | 34 | 11 | 2 | 3 | — | 131 |
Westminster, City of | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 55 | 71 | 63 | 31 | 16 | 4 | — | 265 |
St. Marylebone | 8 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 40 | 59 | 44 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 216 |
1 See footnote (1) page 7.