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
49
The following table shows the crude phthisis death-rate corrected for differences in the age and
sex constitution of the various sanitary districts. The factors for correction, also shown in the table,
have been calculated by applying the population at each age and for each sex of each of the London
sanitary districts to the death-rates at each age and for each sex obtaining for London in the five years
1897-1901:—
| Sanitary area. | Standard death rate.2 | Factor for correction for age and sex distritribution. | Crude death-rate. | Corrected death-rate. | Comparative mortality figure. (London 1,000.) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-5. | 1906. | 1901-5. | 1906. | 1901-5. | 1906. | |||
| Paddington | 1.80 | 0.96659 | 1.07 | 1.12 | 1.03 | 1.08 | 656 | 750 |
| Kensington | 1.78 | 0.97419 | 1.30 | 1.27 | 1.27 | 1.24 | 809 | 861 |
| Hammersmith | 1.74 | 0.99600 | 1.37 | 1.25 | 1.36 | 1.24 | 866 | 861 |
| Fulham | 1.69 | 1.02786 | 1.36 | 1.13 | 1.40 | 1.16 | 892 | 806 |
| Chelsea | 1.83 | 0.95018 | 1.61 | 1.57 | 1.53 | 1.49 | 975 | 1,035 |
| Westminster, City of | 1.95 | 0.89205 | 1.68 | 1.39 | 1.50 | 1.24 | 955 | 861 |
| St. Marylebone | 1.85 | 0.93836 | 1.76 | 1.56 | 1.65 | 1.46 | 1,051 | 1,014 |
| Hampstead | 1.75 | 0.98862 | 0.83 | 0.67 | 0.82 | 0.66 | 522 | 458 |
| St. Pancras | 1.80 | 0.96551 | 1.79 | 1.81 | 1.73 | 1.75 | 1,102 | 1,215 |
| Islington | 1.75 | 0.99145 | 1.44 | 1.23 | 1.43 | 1.22 | 911 | 847 |
| Stoke Newington | 1.77 | 0.97914 | 1.38 | 1.04 | 1.35 | 1.02 | 860 | 708 |
| Hackney | 1.68 | 1.02969 | 1.35 | 1.30 | 1.39 | 1.34 | 885 | 931 |
| Holborn | 1.97 | 0.87894 | 2.93 | 2.37 | 2.58 | 2.08 | 1,643 | 1,444 |
| Finsbury | 1.72 | 1.01050 | 2.23 | 2.18 | 2.25 | 2.20 | 1,433 | 1,528 |
| City of London | 1.89 | 0.91946 | 1.70 | 1.74 | 1.56 | 1.60 | 994 | 1,111 |
| Shoreditch | 1.66 | 1.04206 | 2.10 | 2.01 | 2.19 | 2.09 | 1,395 | 1,451 |
| Bethnal Green | 1.59 | 1.08984 | 2.09 | 2.25 | 2.28 | 2.45 | 1,452 | 1,701 |
| Stepney | 1.65 | 1.05281 | 1.99 | 1.72 | 2.10 | 1.81 | 1,338 | 1,257 |
| Poplar | 1.66 | 1.04772 | 1.70 | 1.55 | 1.78 | 1.62 | 1,134 | 1,125 |
| Southwark | 1.74 | 0.99829 | 2.40 | 2.06 | 2.40 | 2.06 | 1,529 | 1,431 |
| Bermondsey | 1.65 | 1.05026 | 1.86 | 2.01 | 1.95 | 2.11 | 1,242 | 1,465 |
| Lambeth | 1.75 | 0.99258 | 1.52 | 1.37 | 1.51 | 1.36 | 962 | 944 |
| Battersea | 1.69 | 1.02483 | 1.36 | 1.28 | 1.39 | 1.31 | 885 | 910 |
| Wandsworth | 1.72 | 1.01050 | 1.03 | 1.01 | 1.04 | 1.02 | 662 | 708 |
| Camberwell | 1.68 | 1.03522 | 1.36 | 1.26 | 1.41 | 1.30 | 898 | 903 |
| Deptford | 1.69 | 1.02969 | 1.26 | 1.28 | 1.30 | 1.32 | 828 | 917 |
| Greenwich | 1.67 | 1.04143 | 1.21 | 1.19 | 1.26 | 1.24 | 803 | 861 |
| Lewisham | 1.69 | 1.02543 | 0.91 | 0.82 | 0.93 | 0.84 | 592 | 583 |
| Woolwich | 1.70 | 1.01881 | 1.58 | 1.33 | 1.61 | 1.36 | 1,025 | 944 |
It will be seen from the foregoing table (comparing the corrected death.rates) that among the several
sanitary areas in the period 1901-5, Holborn (2.58) had the highest phthisis death-rate, and
Hampstead (0.82) the lowest. In the year 1906 Bethual Green (2.45) had the highest death-rate and
Hampstead (0.66) the lowest. The death-rates from phthisis in each of the four quarters of the year
1906 were as follows:—first quarter, 1.51; second quarter, 1.42; third quarter, 1.23, and fourth
quarter, 1-59 per 1,000 persons living.
The following table shows the number of deaths1 from phthisis at several age-periods in each of
the sanitary areas.
| Age-period. | 0- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- | 85 anc! upwards | All Ages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paddington | 4 | 2 | – | 7 | 14 | 31 | 39 | 36 | 27 | 8 | 2 | – | 170 |
| Kensington | 9 | 2 | – | 4 | 15 | 51 | 69 | 50 | 20 | 14 | – | – | 234 |
| Hammersmith | 7 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 26 | 46 | 23 | 15 | 9 | 1 | – | 150 |
| Fulham | 5 | – | 2 | 9 | 29 | 37 | 47 | 35 | 12 | 7 | – | – | 183 |
| Chelsea | 3 | – | – | 4 | 6 | 28 | 33 | 24 | 14 | 4 | 1 | – | 117 |
| Westminster, City of | 4 | – | 2 | 6 | 8 | 48 | 63 | 51 | 34 | 21 | 4 | – | 241 |
| St. Marylebone | 4 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 41 | 60 | 41 | 18 | 12 | 1 | – | 202 |
| Hampstead | 2 | – | – | 3 | 6 | 10 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 1 | – | 59 |
| St. Pancras | 26 | 9 | 4 | 21 | 29 | 75 | 105 | 99 | 44 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 430 |
| Islington | 26 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 46 | 100 | 92 | 82 | 36 | 12 | 3 | – | 420 |
| Stoke Newington | – | 1 | – | 4 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 7 | – | – | – | 52 |
| Hackney | 7 | 3 | 5 | 25 | 35 | 63 | 68 | 59 | 22 | 13 | 2 | – | 302 |
| Holborn | 2 | 1 | – | 4 | 8 | 14 | 50 | 29 | 19 | 6 | – | 1 | 134 |
(Continued on next page.)
1 See footnote (2), page 7.
2 The standard death rate used in the calculation of the "factors for correction" has been calculated to moro
than the two places of decimals shown in the table.
14911 G