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London County Council 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: Whooping-cough—Mortality among children at ages0-5.

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Whooping-cough—Mortality among children at ages0-5.

Period.	Death-rate per 1,000 children living at ages 0-5	Period.	Death-rate per 1,000 children living at ages 0-5.
1851-60	6.56	1902	3.56¹
1861-70	6.53	1903	3.16¹
1871-80	6.02	1904	2.91¹
1881-90	5.34	1905	2.88¹
1891-1900	4.21¹	1906	2.32¹
1901	3.13¹

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The death-rate in each year since 1840 in relation to the mean of the period 1841-1906 is shown
in diagram XIV., while the deaths in each month since 1890 in relation to the mean monthly deaths
of the period 1891-1906 are shown in diagram VII., page 26.
It will be seen from the following table that in the decennium 1896-1905 the London whoopingcough
death-rate was exceeded by the death-rates of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, West Ham,
Newcastle-on-Tyne and Salford, and in 1906 was lower than the death-rate of any of the undermentioned
large English towns, except Sheffield, West Ham, Bradford, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Nottingham and
Salford.

Table: Whooping-cough—Death-rates per1,000persons living.

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Whooping-cough—Death-rates per1,000persons living.

Town.	1896-1905.	1906.	Town.	1896-1905.	1906.
London	0.411	0.261	West Ham	0.50	0.26
Liverpool	0.47	0.48	Bradford	0.27	0.13
Manchester	0.47	0.31	Newcastle-on-Tyne	0.43	0.22
Birmingham	0.48	0.45	Hull	0.37	0.28
Leeds	0.38	0.32	Nottingham	0.34	0.16
Sheffield	0.40	0.24	Salford	0.55	0.23
Bristol	0.35	0.28	Leicester	0.29	0.49

Table: The following table shows that in the decennium 1896-1905 the London whooping-cough death-rate exceeded the death-rates of all the undermentioned foreign towns, and in 1906 was higher than that of any except Copenhagen.Whooping-cough—Death-rates per1,000persons living.

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The following table shows that in the decennium 1896-1905 the London whooping-cough death-rate exceeded the death-rates of all the undermentioned foreign towns, and in 1906 was higher than that of any except Copenhagen.

Whooping-cough—Death-rates per1,000persons living.

Town.	1896-1905.	1906.	Towu.	1896-1905.	1906.
London	0.41¹	0.26¹	St. Petersburg	0.21	0.20
Paris	0.12	0.09	Berlin	0.28	0.17
Brussels	0.12	0.18	Vienna	0.09	0.09
Amsterdam	0.26	0.20	Rome	0.07	0.15
Copenhagen	0.31	0.29	New York	0.13	0.09
Stockholm	0.21	0.19

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The following table shows the whooping-cough deaths and death-rates for the year 1906 and
the death-rates for the period 1901-5 in the several metropolitan sanitary districts :—
1 See footnote (1) page 8.

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Table: Whooping-cough—Mortality among children at ages0-5.

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Table: Whooping-cough—Death-rates per1,000persons living.

Table: The following table shows that in the decennium 1896-1905 the London whooping-cough death-rate exceeded the death-rates of all the undermentioned foreign towns, and in 1906 was higher than that of any except Copenhagen.Whooping-cough—Death-rates per1,000persons living.

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