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London County Council 1907

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

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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
1907.
PART I.
I
The mean temperature of the air during 1907 was on the whole slightly below the average,
this difference being especially marked in the months of February, June, July, and August, but also
manifested, although in less degree, in the months of January, April and May. In the remaining
months the mean temperature was above the average, the excess being most marked in the months
of March, November and December. The rainfall during the year, as a whole, was also below the
average, the difference being most marked in the months of July and September, and also manifested,
although in less degree, in the months of January, February, March, May and August. In each of
the remaining months of the year the rainfall was somewhat above the average, this difference being
most marked in the month of April. The marriage-rate (17.0) was slightly below the marriage-rate
of the preceding year (17.1). The birth-rate (25.6) was the lowest on record in London since the
institution of civil registration. The death-rate (14.6) was the lowest on record in London. The
infant mortality was also the lowest on record, a result to which the comparatively low temperature
experienced in the third quarter of the year has largely contributed. The number of deaths from
diseases of the respiratory system was below the annual average number of the preceding 10 years,
and the number of deaths from pneumonia above the average. No death occurred from small-pox,
and the deaths from measles, influenza, diphtheria, enteric fever, diarrhoea and phthisis were below
the average ; while the deaths from scarlet fever, whooping-cough and cancer were above the average.
Population.
The population of the Administrative County of London, estimated to the middle of the year
1907, was 4,758,218.
The population of the City of London and each of the metropolitan boroughs, as constituted
by the London Government Act of 1899, estimated to the middle of 1907, are shown in the following
table—

Sanitary areas.—Population (middle of1907).

Sanitary area.Estimated population (middle of 1907).Sanitary area.Estimated population (middle of 1907).
Paddington149,909Shoreditch/ 115,662
Kensington181,842Bethnal Green130,831
Hammersmith122,337Stepney308,923
Fulham166,749Poplar171,086
Chelsea74,857Southwark209,781
Westminster, City of172,219Bermondsey128,263
St. Marylebone127,718Lambeth318,538
Hampstead91,137Battersea181,736
St. Pancras236,753Wandsworth281,419
Islington347,017Camberwell277,059
Stoke Newington53,613Deptford116,510
Hackney232,993Greenwich107.222
Holborn55,134Lewisham152,532
Finsbury96,732Woolwich129,336
London, City of20,310

Marriages.
The number of marriages in the Administrative County of London in 1907 (52 weeks) was
40,541, giving an annual rate of persons married of 17.0 per 1,000 persons living.
The marriage-rate in successive periods has been as follows—

Marriage-rates. -

Period.Marriage-rate per 1,(100 persons living.Period.Marriage-rate per 1,000 persons living.
1851-6020.6190217.8
1861-7020.3190317.5
1871-8019.1190417.0
1881-9017.6190516.9
1891-190017.8190617.1
190117.6190717.0

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