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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Cancer.
The deaths from cancer in the Administrative County of London during 1904 (3G6 days)
numbered 4.278.
The death.rates of this disease per 1,000 persons living in successive periods have been as follows)—
Period. | Rate. | Period. | Rate. |
---|---|---|---|
1851.60 | 0.42 | 1901 | 0.881 |
1861.70 | 0.48 | 1902 | 0.931 |
1871.80 | 0.55 | 1903 | 0.961 |
1881.90 | 0.68 | 1904 | 0.921 |
1891.1900 | 0.85 |
For the purpose of enabling the incidence of cancer on the several populations of the sanitary
areas to be more precisely stated, factors have been calculated for correcting the death.rates, as far
as possible, for differences in the age and sex constitution of the several populations concerned.
These factors are shown in the following table, together with the death.rates for each sanitary area,
corrected by their application. Owing to the changes of area in the sanitary districts of London,
caused by the London Government Act of 1899, the death.rates since 1900 are the only figures
available for comparative purposes, but it can be seen from these figures that differences in
the age and sex constitution of the population are partially responsible for the differences in
the crude death.rates obtaining in the several districts.
Sanitary areas. | Standard death. rate. | Factor for correction for age and sex distribution. | Crude death.rate. | Corrected death.rate. | Comparative mortality figure (London 1,000). | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1901.3. | 1904. | 1901.3. | 1904. | 1901.3. | 1904. | |||
1.00000 | ||||||||
0.98 | 0.89478 | 1.04 | 1.09 | 0.93 | 0.98 | 1,011 | 1,065 | |
1.02 | 0.85622 | 1.03 | 1.02 | 0.88 | 0.87 | 957 | 946 | |
0.90 | 0.96811 | 0.85 | 1.01 | 0.82 | 0.98 | 891 | 1,065 | |
0.77 | 1.13828 | 0.81 | 0.85 | 0.92 | 0.97 | 1,000 | 1,054 | |
1.03 | 0.84874 | 1.07 | 1.22 | 0.91 | 1.04 | 989 | 1,130 | |
0.96 | 0.91348 | 0.98 | 1.02 | 0.90 | 0.93 | 978 | 1,011 | |
099 | 0.88571 | 1.16 | 1.10 | 1.03 | 0.97 | 1,120 | 1,054 | |
0.92 | 0.94816 | 1.11 | 0.98 | 1.05 | 0.93 | 1,141 | 1,011 | |
0.92 | 0.95229 | 0.99 | 0.97 | 0.94 | 0.92 | 1,022 | 1,000 | |
0.90 | 0.96704 | 0.99 | 0.96 | 0.96 | 0.93 | 1,043 | 1,011 | |
0.98 | 0.89387 | 0.95 | 1.03 | 0.85 | 0.92 | 924 | 1,000 | |
0.88 | 0.99341 | 0.86 | 0.84 | 0.85 | 0.83 | 924 | 902 | |
0.95 | 0.91924 | 1.02 | 0.94 | 0.94 | 0.86 | 1,022 | 935 | |
0.84 | 1.04071 | 0.83 | 0.83 | 0.86 | 0.86 | 935 | 935 | |
1.06 | 0.82316 | 1.29 | 1.41 | 1.06 | 1.16 | 1,152 | 1,261 | |
0.79 | 1.10518 | 0.90 | 0.78 | 0.99 | 0.86 | 1,076 | 935 | |
0.78 | 1.12077 | 0.85 | 0.87 | 0.95 | 0.98 | 1,033 | 1,065 | |
0.74 | 1.17976 | 0.73 | 0.76 | 0.86 | 0.90 | 935 | 978 | |
0.81 | 1.08327 | 0.80 | 0.71 | 0.87 | 0.77 | 946 | 837 | |
0.82 | 1.06350 | 0.89 | 0.85 | 0.95 | 0.90 | 1,033 | 978 | |
0.81 | 1.08162 | 0.83 | 0.73 | 0.90 | 0.79 | 978 | 859 | |
0.92 | 0.95333 | 1.01 | 1.03 | 0.96 | 0.98 | 1,043 | 1,065 | |
0.79 | 1.10798 | 0.84 | 095 | 0.93 | 1.05 | 1,011 | 1,141 | |
0.88 | 0.99116 | 0.95 | 0.99 | 0.94 | 0.98 | 1,022 | 1,065 | |
0.87 | 1.00483 | 0.92 | 0.88 | 0.92 | 0.88 | 1,000 | 957 | |
0.81 | 1.07396 | 0.90 | 0.94 | 0.97 | 1.01 | 1,054 | 1,098 | |
0.87 | 1.01064 | 0.77 | 0.86 | 0.78 | 0.87 | 848 | 946 | |
0.92 | 0.95333 | 0.93 | 0.85 | 0.89 | 0.81 | 967 | 880 | |
0.78 | 1.11933 | 0.78 | 0.83 | 0.87 | 0.93 | 946 | 1,011 |
The following tables (a), (b), and (c) show the deaths in each of the sanitary districts from cancer
at several age-periods under three headings, viz., sarcoma, carcinoma, and cancer, deaths classified under
the last named term being those for which the information given on the certificate of death was insufficient
to further distinguish them for purposes of classification.
(1) See footnote (1) page 7.
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