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London County Council 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| Town. | Estimated Population (middle of 1906.) | Crude death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living (corrected for age and sex distribution). | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896-1905. | 1906. | 1896-1905. | 1906. | ||
London had therefore (comparing the corrected death-rates) both in the decennium 1896-1905,
and the year 1906 a lower death-rate than any of these towns except Bristol and Leicester.
The following table enables comparison to be made of the death-rates of London with the
death-rates of several foreign towns3:—
| Town. | 1896-1905. | 1906. | Town. | 1896-1905. | 1906. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
It will be seen that in the decennium 1896-1905 the London death-rate was exceeded by the
death-rates of Paris, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna, Rome and New York, and in 1906 was lower
than that of any except Brussels, Amsterdam and Stockholm.
The following table shows the crude death-rates, and the death-rates corrected for differences
in the age and sex constitution of the population of the several sanitary districts during the year
1906 ; the mean death-rates for the period 1901-54 are also shown for the purposes of comparison.
| Area. | Standard death-rate. | Factor for correction for age and sex distribution. | Crude death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Corrected death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Comparative mortality figure (London, 1,000), | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-5. | 1906. | 1901-5. | 1906. | 1901-5. | 1906. | |||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
1 Including deaths of Londoners in the Metropolitan Workhouses, Hospitals, and Lunatics Asylums outside
the County of London, but excluding deaths of non-Londoners in the Willesden Workhouse, the London Fever
Hospital, the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals and the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, within the
County of London.
2 As extended in 1905.
3 All death-rates in this report relating to foreign towns are calculated upon figures published by the Registrar
General.
4 Owing to the changes consequent upon the London Government Act, 1399, the death-rates in the present
metropolitan boroughs cannot be shown prior to the year 1901.
5 All death -rates in this report relating to metropolitan sanitary areas are fully corrected for institutions, see
footnote (2), page 7.