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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It will be seen from the following table that in the quinquennium 1904-8 the London whoopingcough
death-rate was exceeded by that of all except Bristol, Bradford, Nottingham and Leicester, but
in the year 1909, was only exceeded by that of Liverpool and West Ham:—
Town. | 1904-1908. | 1909. | Town. | 1904-1908. | 1909. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
London | 0.301 | 0.261 | West Ham | 0.39 | 0.58 |
Liverpool | 0.43 | 0.30 | Bradford | 0.22 | 0.15 |
Manchester | 0.39 | 0.19 | Newcastle-on-Tyne | 0.42 | 0.26 |
Birmingham | 0.49 | 0.26 | Hull | 0.32 | 0.18 |
Leeds | 0.33 | 0.17 | Nottingham | 0.30 | 0.22 |
Sheffield | 0.35 | 0.11 | Salford | 0.42 | 0.19 |
Bristol | 0.28 | 0.14 | Leicester | 0.26 | 0.21 |
The following table shows that the London whooping-cough death-rate was, in the quinquennium
1904-8, higher than that of any of the undermentioned foreign towns except Copenhagen, and in the
year 1909, higher than that of all except Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and St. Petersburg.
Town. | 1904-1908. | 1909. | Town. | 1904-1908. | 1909. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
London | 0.301 | 0.261 | St. Petersburg | 0.23 | 0.27 |
Paris | 0.10 | 0.08 | Berlin | 0.20 | 0.18 |
Brussels | 0.10 | 0.05 | Vienna | 0.08 | 0.08 |
Amsterdam | 0.24 | 0.29 | Rome | 0.08 | 0.13 |
Copenhagen | 0.35 | 0.27 | New York | 0.08 | 0.09 |
Stockholm | 0.15 | 0.15 |
The following table shows the whooping-cough deaths and death-rates for the year 1909 and the death-rates for the period 1904-8 in the several metropolitan sanitary districts:—
Sanitary area. | Deaths, 1909 (52 weeks). | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | |
---|---|---|---|
1904-8. | 1909. | ||
Paddington | 36 | 0.19 | 0.24 |
Kensington | 40 | 0.21 | 0.22 |
Hammersmith | 47 | 0.27 | 0.37 |
Fulham | 49 | 0.35 | 0.28 |
Chelsea | 13 | 0.29 | 0.17 |
Westminster, City of | 19 | 0.12 | 0.11 |
St. Marylebone | 25 | 0.17 | 0.20 |
Hampstead | 18 | 0.10 | 0.19 |
St. Pancras | 30 | 0.32 | 0.13 |
Islington | 86 | 0.26 | 0.25 |
Stoke Newington | 14 | 0.24 | 0.26 |
Hackney | 51 | 0.23 | 0.22 |
Holborn | 15 | 0.26 | 0.28 |
Finsbury | 51 | 0.39 | 0.54 |
London, City of | 4 | 0.20 | 0.22 |
Shoreditch | 72 | 0.58 | 0.63 |
Bethnal Green | 40 | 0.42 | 0.31 |
Stepney | 69 | 0.39 | 0.22 |
Poplar | 84 | 0.43 | 0.49 |
Southwark | 57 | 0.39 | 0.27 |
Bermondsey | 55 | 0.36 | 0.43 |
Lambeth | 85 | 0.27 | 0.26 |
Battersea | 63 | 0.33 | 0.34 |
Wandsworth | 69 | 0.26 | 0.23 |
Camberwell | 52 | 0.30 | 0.18 |
Deptford | 47 | 0.33 | 0.40 |
Greenwich | 20 | 0.32 | 0.18 |
Lewisham | 20 | 0.23 | 0.12 |
Woolwich | 15 | 0.26 | 0.11 |
London | 1246 | 0.30 | 0.26 |
See footnote (2), page 6.