Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Town. | 1897-1906. | 1907. | Town. | 1897-1906. | 1907. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
St. Petersburg | 0.53 | 0.59 | |||
Paris | 0.04 | 0.12 | Berlin | 0.21 | 0.09 |
Brussels | 0.03 | 0.07 | Vienna | 0.12 | 0.12 |
Amsterdam | 0.03 | 0.06 | Rome | 0.01 | 0.00 |
Copenhagen | 0.09 | 0.02 | New York | 0.20 | 0.19 |
Stockholm | 0.15 | 0.07 |
The following table shows the scarlet fever cases, deaths, case-rates, and death-rates for the year
1907, the case-rates for the decennium 1897-1906, and the death-rates for the period 1902-6 in the several
sanitary districts of the County:—
Sanitary area. | Notified cases, 1907 (52 weeks). | Case-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Deaths, 1907 (52 weeks). | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1897-1906. | 1907. | 1902-1906. | 1907. | |||
Paddington | 577 | 3.0 | 3.9 | 13 | 0.07 | 0.09 |
Kensington | 532 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 9 | 0.08 | 0.05 |
Hammersmith | 581 | 3.3 | 4.8 | 10 | 0.08 | 0.08 |
Fulham | 668 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 14 | 0.09 | 0.08 |
Chelsea | 219 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2 | 0.09 | 0.03 |
Westminster, City of | 418 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 12 | 0.07 | 0.07 |
St. Marylebone | 435 | 2.7 | 3.4 | 19 | 0.11 | 0.15 |
Hampstead | 320 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 5 | 0.06 | 0.06 |
St. Pancras | 848 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 26 | 0.13 | 0.11 |
Islington | 1,216 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 22 | 0.10 | 0.06 |
Stoke Newington | 252 | 3.5 | 4.7 | 10 | 0.05 | 0.19 |
Hackney | 1,808 | 4.4 | 7.8 | 43 | 0.09 | 0.19 |
Holborn | 157 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2 | 0.07 | 0.04 |
Finsbury | 505 | 4.4 | 5.2 | 17 | 0.16 | 0.18 |
London, City of | 97 | 2.9 | 4.8 | 1 | 0.10 | 0.05 |
Shoreditch | 877 | 3.9 | 7.6 | 28 | 0.13 | 0.24 |
Bethnal Green | 1,288 | 4.7 | 9.9 | 43 | 0.15 | 0.33 |
Stepney | 3,128 | 4.2 | 10.2 | 83 | 0.12 | 0.27 |
Poplar | 1,285 | 3.8 | 7.5 | 44 | 0.12 | 0.26 |
Southwark | 1,275 | 4.5 | 6.1 | 35 | 0.14 | 0.17 |
Bermondsey | 1,021 | 5.2 | 8.0 | 36 | 0.17 | 0.28 |
Lambeth | 1,478 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 40 | 0.09 | 0.13 |
Battersea | 977 | 4.6 | 5.4 | 19 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
Wandsworth | 1,321 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 24 | 0.08 | 0.09 |
Camberwell | 1,571 | 4.4 | 5.7 | 37 . | 0.09 | 0.13 |
Deptford | 777 | 4.9 | 6.7 | 14 | 0.13 | 0.12 |
Greenwich | 661 | 3.7 | 6.2 | 10 | 0.08 | 0.09 |
Lewisham | 604 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 12 | 0.08 | 0.08 |
Woolwich | 1,027 | 4.4 | 8.0 | 14 | 0.07 | 0.11 |
Port of London | 2 | — | — | — | ||
0.10 |
The above table shows that the increased prevalence of the disease manifested in London as
a whole occurred in every district, except Fulham, Westminster, St. Pancras, Islington and Holborn.
The most notable increases were in Hackney, Shoreditch, Bethnal-green, Stepney, Poplar and
Woolwich.
It will also be seen from the foregoing table that the scarlet fever death-rate was, in the period
1902-6, highest in Bermondsey (0.17) and lowest in Hampstead (0.06); in the year 1907, Bethnalgreen
(0.33) had the highest death-rate, and Chelsea (0.03) the lowest. The scarlet fever death-rates
obtaining in London in the four quarters of the year 1907, were as follows: first quarter, 0.09; second
quarter, 0.12; third quarter, 0.14; and fourth quarter, 0.19 per 1,000 persons living.
Scarlet Fever—Age and sex distribution.
The following table shows the notified cases, deaths, case-rates, death-rates, and fatality of
scarlet fever at the several ages and for each sex in London during the year 1907. It will be seen that
at all-ages the case-rate was higher among females than among males, while the death-rate and fatality
were higher among the latter. In the age groups adopted for the purposes of this table the greatest
18560 1 See footnote (1), page 8.
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