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It will be seen from the foregoing table that in the period 1901-5 the whooping-cough death-rate
was highest in Shoreditch (0'56) and lowest in the City of London (0'16); in the year 1906 Finsbury
(0.56) had the highest death-rate and Hampstead (0.02) the lowest. The whooping-cough death-rates
in each of the four quarters of the year 1906 were as follows: first quarter, 0.39; second quarter,
0.34; third quarter, 0.16; and fourth quarter, 0.15 per 1,000 persons living.
All the districts show a lower mortality from whooping-cough in 1906 as compared with 1905
except the districts of Stoke Newington, Finsbury, the City of London, Bethnal Green, Bermondsey,
Battersea, Camberwell, Deptford, Greenwich, and Woolwich, which had increased death-rates from this
disease, and Lewisham, which had the same death-rate as in 1905. The increase was especially
marked in Stoke Newington, Finsbury, the City of London, and in Deptford and Greenwich. Several
medical officers of health comment on the extent to which the infectious nature of whooping-cough
is ignored by parents, and the medical officer of health of Stoke Newington states that the disease was
largely spread by school attendance, despite the precautions taken.
Typhus.
There were no deaths from typhus registered in the Administrative County of London during
the year 1906.
The death-rates from this disease in successive periods have been as follows:—

In this table .000 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of .0005; where — is inserted
no death occurred.
1 See footnote (2) page 7.