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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| Town. | 1898-1007. | 1908. | Town. | 1898-1907. | 1908. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Ham | 0.11 | 0.16 | |||
| Liverpool | 0.26 | 0.28 | Bradford | 0.17 | 0.04 |
| Manchester | 0.17 | 0.15 | Newcastle-on-Tyne | 0.12 | 0.04 |
| Birmingham | 0.19 | 0.13 | Hull | 0.09 | 0.01 |
| Leeds | 0.15 | 0.03 | Nottingham | 0.12 | 0.04 |
| Sheffield | 0.22 | 0.08 | Salford | 0.29 | 0.27 |
| Bristol | 0.10 | 0.03 | Leicester | 0.13 | 0.11 |
The following table shows that in the year 1908 the London scarlet fever death-rate was higher than that of Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Rome, but in the decennium 1898-1907 was exceeded by the death-rates of Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna and New York:-
| Town. | 1898-1907. | 1908. | Town. | 1898-1907. | 1908. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Petersburg | 0.52 | 0.41 | ||||
| Paris | 0.05 | 0.08 | Berlin | 0.21 | 0.13 | |
| Brussels | 0.04 | 0.09 | Vienna | 0.12 | 0.13 | |
| Amsterdam | 0.03 | 0.02 | Rome | 0.01 | 0.06 | |
| Copenhagen | 0.09 | 0.09 | New York | 0.19 | 0.30 | |
| Stockholm | 0.13 | 0.14 | ||||
The following table shows the scarlet fever cases, deaths, case-rates, and death-rates for the year 1908, the case-rates for the decennium 1898-1907, and the death-rates for the period 1903-7 in the several sanitary districts of the County :—
| Sanitary area. | Notified cases, 1908 (53 weeks). | Case-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Deaths, 1908 (53 weeks). | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1898-1907. | 1908. | 1903-1907. | 1908. | |||
| Paddington | 682 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 15 | 0.08 | 0.10 |
| Kensington | 453 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 9 | 0.07 | 0.05 |
| Hammersmith | 394 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 11 | 0.08 | 0.09 |
| Fulham | 596 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 17 | 0.08 | 0.10 |
| Chelsea | 174 | 2.8 | 2.3 | 8 | 0.08 | 0.10 |
| Westminster, City of | 627 | 2.4 | 3.6 | 7 | 0.07 | 0.04 |
| St. Marylebone | 411 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 13 | 0.12 | 0.10 |
| Hampstead | 280 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 7 | 0.05 | 0.07 |
| St. Pancras | 952 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 20 | 0.11 | 0.08 |
| Islington | 1,411 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 31 | 0.09 | 0.09 |
| Stoke Newington | 202 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 5 | 0.07 | 0.09 |
| Hackney | 1,276 | 4.6 | 5.3 | 31 | 0.11 | 0.13 |
| 194 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 7 | 0.05 | 0.13 | |
| Finsbury | 409 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 13 | 0.16 | 0.13 |
| London, City of | 53 | 3.1 | 2.7 | - | 0.10 | |
| Shoreditch | 600 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 29 | 0.16 | 0.25 |
| Bethnal Green | 1,010 | 5.1 | 7.6 | 40 | 0.19 | 0.30 |
| Stepney | 2,358 | 4.6 | 7.5 | 55 | 0.15 | 0.17 |
| Poplar | 1,280 | 4.0 | 7.3 | 37 | 0.15 | 0.21 |
| Southwark | 775 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 24 | 0.13 | 0.11 |
| Bermondsey | 641 | 5.4 | 4.9 | 25 | 0.19 | 0.19 |
| Lambeth | 1,454 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 42 | 0.09 | 0.13 |
| Battersea | 1,152 | 4.2 | 6.2 | 24 | 0.09 | 0.13 |
| Wandsworth | 1,261 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 21 | 0.08 | 0.07 |
| Camberwell | 1,054 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 24 | 0.09 | 0.08 |
| Deptford | 723 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 7 | 0.12 | 0.06 |
| Greenwich | 428 | 41 | 3.9 | 6 | 0.08 | 0.05 |
| Lewisham | 620 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 11 | 0.07 | 0.07 |
| Woolwich | 601 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 9 | 0.08 | 0.07 |
| Port of London | 1 | |||||
| London | 22,072 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 548 | 0.111 | 0.111 |
21322 1 See footnote(1) page 8. E