London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
This page requires JavaScript
| Town. | 1896.1905. | 1906. | Town. | 1896.1905. | 1906. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 2.311 | 1.931 | West Ham | 3.39 | 3.17 |
| Liverpool | 3.29 | 3.62 | Bradford | 1.85 | 2.03 |
| Manchester | 3.10 | 3.09 | Newcastle.on.Tyne | 1.98 | 2.23 |
| Birmingham | 2.93 | 2.78 | Hull | 3.00 | 2.93 |
| Leeds | 2.53 | 2.23 | Nottingham | 2.50 | 2.10 |
| Sheffield | 3.29 | 2.92 | Salford | 3.91 | 3.23 |
| Bristol | 1.91 | 1.56 | Leicester | 2.62 | 2.38 |
The following table shows that the London death-rate from the first six of these principal epidemic
diseases, viz., smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, and fever (including typhus,
enteric fever and pyrexia), exceeded the death-rates of all the undermentioned foreign towns except
St. Petersburg in the decennium 1896.1905, and in 1906 exceeded all except Amsterdam, St. Petersburg
and New York.
| Town. | 1896-1905. | 1906. | Town. | 1896-1905. | 1906. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 1.501 | 0.991 | St. Petersburg | 3.13 | 3.78 |
| Paris | 0.77 | 0.50 | Berlin | 0.99 | 0.78 |
| Brussels | 0.64 | 0.64 | Vienna | 0.99 | 0.82 |
| Amsterdam | 0.87 | 0.99 | Rome | 0.99 | 0.83 |
| Copenhagen | 0.82 | 0.60 | New York | 1.28 | 1.10 |
| Stockholm | 0.93 | 0.54 |
The following table shows the deaths from the principal epidemic diseases and the death-rates
per 1,000 persons living in each of the sanitary areas of the County in 1906, and the death-rates for the
period 1901-5:—
| Sanitary area. | Deaths, 1906 (52 weeks.) | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-5. | 1906. | ||
| Paddington | 193 | 1.56 | 1.30 |
| Kensington | 280 | 1.54 | 1.56 |
| Hammersmith | 257 | 2.13 | 2.13 |
| Fulham | 388 | 2.67 | 2.40 |
| Chelsea | 151 | 1.40 | 2.03 |
| Westminster, City of | 145 | 1.06 | 0.84 |
| St. Marylebone | 164 | 1.59 | 1.28 |
| Hampstead | 51 | 0.71 | 0.57 |
| St. Pancras | 392 | 2.05 | 1.65 |
| Islington | 555 | 1.69 | 1.62 |
| Stoke Newington | 58 | 1.24 | 1.10 |
| Hackney | 363 | 2.00 | 1.58 |
| Holborn | 80 | 1.82 | 1.44 |
| Finsbury | 349 | 2.60 | 3.59 |
| London, City of | 23 | 0.90 | 1.08 |
| Shoreditch | 362 | 3.11 | 3.13 |
| Bethnal Green | 333 | 2.58 | 2.55 |
| Stepney | 840 | 2.72 | 2.74 |
| Poplar | 503 | 2.96 | 2.95 |
| Southwark | 462 | 2.72 | 2.23 |
| Bermondsey | 377 | 2.74 | 2.94 |
| Lambeth | 532 | 1.87 | 1.69 |
| Battersea | 327 | 2.15 | 1.82 |
| Wandsworth | 435 | 1.59 | 1.60 |
| Camberwell | 514 | 1.83 | 1.88 |
| Deptford | 310 | 2.14 | 2.69 |
| Greenwich | 196 | 1.80 | 1.87 |
| Lewisham | 215 | 1.35 | 1.45 |
| Woolwich | 192 | 1.59 | 1.52 |
| London | 9,047 | 2.012 | 1.932 |
1 See footnote (1), page 8.
2 See footnote (2), page 7.