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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 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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The following table shows that the London smallpox death-rate was in the decennium 189C1905
higher than that of any of the undermentioned foreign towns except Paris, Brussels and St.
Petersburg, while in 1906 Paris, St. Petersburg, Berlin and New York were the only towns where any
smallpox deaths occurred.
| Town. | 1896-1905. | 1906. | Town. | 1896-1905. | 1906. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 0.031 | -1 | St. Petersburg | 0.09 | 0.04 |
| Paris | 0.04 | 0.00 | Berlin | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Brussels | 0.03 | — | Vienna | 0.00 | — |
| Amsterdam | 0.00 | — | Rome | 0.00 | — |
| Copenhagen | 0.00 | — | New York | 0.02 | 0.00 |
| Stockholm | 0.00 | — |
In this table 0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.005 ; where no death occurred — is
inserted.
The following table shows the smallpox cases notified, deaths, case-rates, and death-rates in
the year 1906, the case-rates in the decennium 1896-1905, and the death-rates in the period 1901-5
in the several sanitary areas of the Administrative County—
| Sanitary area. | Notified Cases, 1906 (52 weeks). | Case-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Deaths, 1906. (52 weeks). | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896-1905. | 1906. | 1901-5. | 1906. | |||
| Paddington | 1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | — | 0.03 | — |
| Kensington | — | 0.1 | — | — | 0.02 | — |
| Hammersmith | — | 0.1 | — | — | 0.05 | — |
| Fulham | — | 0.1 | — | — | 0.02 | — |
| Chelsea | — | 0.1 | — | — | 0.02 | — |
| Westminster, City of | — | 0.2 | — | — | 0.06 | — |
| St. Marylebone | — | 0.2 | — | — | 0.05 | — |
| Hampstead | — | 0.0 | — | — | 0.01 | — |
| St. Pancras | — | 0.3 | — | — | 0.10 | — |
| Islington | 1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | — | 0.04 | — |
| Stoke Newington | — | 0.2 | — | — | 0.04 | — |
| Hackney | 9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | — | 0.07 | — |
| Holborn | — | 0.8 | — | — | 0.26 | — |
| Finsbury | — | 0.3 | — | — | 0.09 | — |
| London, City of | — | 0.2 | — | — | 0.07 | — |
| Shoreditch | — | 0.4 | — | — | 0.14 | — |
| Bethnal Green | 6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | — | 0.11 | — |
| Stepney | 4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | — | 0.19 | — |
| Poplar | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0.13 | — |
| Southwark | — | 0.3 | — | — | 0.09 | — |
| Bermondsey | 1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | — | 0.07 | — |
| Lambeth | — | 0.2 | — | — | 0.04 | — |
| Battersea | — | 0.2 | — | — | 0.03 | — |
| Wandsworth | — | 0.1 | — | — | 0.02 | — |
| Camberwell | 6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | — | 0.05 | — |
| Deptford | 1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | — | 0.06 | — |
| Greenwich | — | 0.1 | — | — | 0.05 | — |
| Lewisham | — | 0.1 | — | — | 0.02 | — |
| Woolwich | — | 0.3 | — | — | 0.06 | — |
| Port of London | — | — | — | — | — | |
| London | 31 | 02 | 0.0 | — | 0.072 | —2 |
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 (1) page 8.
2 See footnote (2) page 7.