[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 38

London County Council 1908

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

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Table: It will be seen from the following table that in the decennium 1898-1907 the London whooping-cough death-rate was exceeded by the death-rates of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, West Ham, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Salford, and in the year 1908 was lower than all except that of Bradford and Leicester.

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It will be seen from the following table that in the decennium 1898-1907 the London whooping-cough death-rate was exceeded by the death-rates of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, West Ham, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Salford, and in the year 1908 was lower than all except that of Bradford and Leicester.

Town.	1898-1907.	1908.	Town.	1898-1907.	1908.
London	0.37¹	0.20^l	West Ham	0.47	0.26
Liverpool	0.47	0.45	Bradford	0.25	0.19
Manchester	0.43	0.33	Newcastle-on-Tyne	0.42	0.48
Birmingham	0.44	0.54	Hull	0.36	0.21
Leeds	0.36	0.28	Nottingham	0.32	0.23
Sheffield	0.36	0.53	Salford	0.49	0.42
Bristol	0.31	0.34	Leicester	0.27	0.13

Table: The following table shows that the London whooping-cough death-rate was, in the decennium 1898-1907, higher than that of any of the undermentioned foreign towns, and in the year 1908, higher than that of all except Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and St. Petersburg.

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The following table shows that the London whooping-cough death-rate was, in the decennium 1898-1907, higher than that of any of the undermentioned foreign towns, and in the year 1908, higher than that of all except Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and St. Petersburg.

Town.	1893-1907.	1908.	Town.	1898-1907.	1908.
London	0.37¹	0.20¹	St. Petersburg	0.22	0.27
Paris	0.12	0.09	Berlin	0.26	0.19
Brussels	0.12	0.05	Vienna	0.09	0.09
Amsterdam	0.24	0.21	Rome	0.08	0.04
Copenhagen	0.33	0.37	New York	0.12	0.04
Stockholm	0.17	0.07

Table: The following table shows the whooping-cough deaths and death-rates for the year 1908 and the death-rates for the period 1903-7 in the several metropolitan sanitary districts :—

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The following table shows the whooping-cough deaths and death-rates for the year 1908 and the death-rates for the period 1903-7 in the several metropolitan sanitary districts :—

Sanitary area.	Deaths, 1908 (53 weeks).	Death-rate per 1,000 persons living.
Sanitary area.	Deaths, 1908 (53 weeks).	1903-7.	1908.
Paddington	11	0.25	0.07
Kensington	7	0.30	0.04
Hammersmith	19	0.30	0.15
Fulham	34	0.37	0.19
Chelsea	17	0.32	0.22
Westminster, City of	8	0.15	0.05
St. Marylebone	13	0.23	0.10
Hampstead	5	0.12	0.05
St. Pancras	69	0.34	0.29
Islington	55	0.32	0.16
Stoke Newington	6	0.29	0.11
Hackney	44	0.26	0.18
Holborn	8	0.29	0.14
Finsbury	25	0.45	0.26
London, City of	1	0.22	0.05
Shoreditch	24	0.62	0.20
Bethnal Green	42	0.42	0.32
Stepney	129	0.38	0.41
Poplar	73	0.44	0.42
Southwark	50	0.41	0.23
Bermondsey	22	0.39	0.17
Lambeth	50	0.32	0.15
Battersea	39	0.38	0.21
Wandsworth	62	0.29	0.21
Camberwell	54	0.32	0.19
Deptford	24	0.37	0.20
Greenwich	31	0.34	0.28
Lewisham	30	0.20	0.19
Woolwich	32	0.25	0.24
London	984	0.33¹	0.20¹

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London County Council 1908

Table: The following table shows that the London whooping-cough death-rate was, in the decennium 1898-1907, higher than that of any of the undermentioned foreign towns, and in the year 1908, higher than that of all except Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and St. Petersburg.

Table: The following table shows the whooping-cough deaths and death-rates for the year 1908 and the death-rates for the period 1903-7 in the several metropolitan sanitary districts :—