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London County Council 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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The following table shows the scarlet fever cases, deaths, case-rates, and death-rates for the year 1910 and the case-rates and death-rates for the period 1905-9 in the several sanitary districts.
| Metropolitan borough. | Notified cases, 1910 (52 weeks). | Case-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Deaths, 1910 (52 weeks). | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905-9. | 1910. | 1905-9. | 1910. | |||
| Paddington | 261 | 4.1 | 1.83 | 7 | 0.09 | 0.05 |
| Kensington | 263 | 2.52 | 1.52 | 1 | 0.07 | 0.01 |
| Hammersmith | 341 | 3.64 | 2.82 | 7 | 0.10 | 0.06 |
| Fulham | 354 | 4.36 | 2.33 | 7 | 0.11 | 0.05 |
| Chelsea | 120 | 3.44 | 1.79 | 0.10 | ||
| Westminster, City of | 248 | 2.99 | 1.53 | 4 | 0.08 | 0.02 |
| St. Marylebone | 208 | 3.17 | 1.74 | 7 | 0.11 | 0.06 |
| Hampstead | 144 | 3.37 | 1.69 | 2 | 0.06 | 0.02 |
| St. Pancras | 681 | 3.85 | 3.10 | 17 | 0.11 | 0.08 |
| Islington | 731 | 3.91 | 2.23 | 11 | 0.09 | 0.03 |
| Stoke Newington | 85 | 3.43 | 1.68 | 1 | 0.09 | 0.02 |
| Hackney | 403 | 5.37 | 1.81 | 5 | 0.11 | 0.02 |
| Holborn | 68 | 2.78 | 1.36 | 0.07 | ||
| Finsbury | 165 | 4.45 | 1.86 | 4 | 0.16 | 0.04 |
| London, Citv of | 21 | 3.35 | 1.04 | 1 | 0.08 | 0.05 |
| Shoreditch | 213 | 5.64 | 1.90 | 4 | 0.20 | 0.04 |
| Bethnal Green | 236 | 6.65 | 1.84 | 9 | 0.24 | 0.07 |
| Stepney | 554 | 6.64 | 1.97 | 12 | 0.18 | 0.04 |
| Poplar | 470 | 5.86 | 2.89 | 12 | 0.18 | 0.07 |
| * Southwark | 419 | 4.92 | 2.17 | 9 | 0.15 | 0.05 |
| Bermondsey | 364 | 6.01 | 2.88 | 14 | 0.19 | 0.11 |
| Lambeth | 908 | 4.24 | 3.05 | 22 | 0.11 | 0.07 |
| Battersea | 488 | 5.62 | 2.91 | 7 | 0.12 | 0.04 |
| Wandsworth | 681 | 4.33 | 2.23 | 11 | 0.07 | 0.04 |
| Camberwell | 511 | 4.60 | 1.96 | 10 | 0.10 | 0.04 |
| Deptford | 301 | 5.66 | 2.75 | 3 | 0.10 | 0.03 |
| Greenwich | 171 | 4.83 | 1.78 | 3 | 0.10 | 0.03 |
| Lewisham | 573 | 4.39 | 3.62 | 12 | 0.08 | 0.08 |
| Woolwich | 526 | 6.13 | 4.35 | 12 | 0.09 | 0.10 |
| Port of London | 1 | |||||
| London | 10,509 | 4.61 | 2.32 | 214 | 0.12 | 0.05 |
It will be seen that the scarlet fever death-rate was, in the period 1905-9, highest in Bethnal
Green (0.24) and lowest in Hampstead (0.06); in the year 1910, Bermondsey (0.11) had the
highest death-rate, and Kensington (0.01) the lowest, exclusive of Chelsea and Holborn, where
no deaths occurred. The scarlet fever death-rates obtaining in London in the four quarters of the
year 1910 were as follows: first quarter, 0.06; second quarter, 0.04; third quarter, 0.04; and fourth
quarter, 0.04 per 1,000 persons living.
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 1910. It will be seen that
at "all ages" the case-rate, death-rate and fatality were higher among males than among females.
In the age-groups adopted for the purposes of this table the greatest incidence of attack was upon both
males and females of four years of age. The greatest incidence of death was upon males and females
aged 2—3 years.
Scarlet fever
—Age and sex
incidence.
The fatality was highest among males aged 1—2 and females aged 0—1, if the obviously abnormal rates over 45 years of age, due to the smallness of the figures be disregarded.
| Age-period. | Males. | I Females. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified cases. (a) | Deaths. (a) | Case-mortality per cent. | Rates per 100,000 living. | Notified cases. (a) | Deaths. (a) | Case-mortality per cent. | Rates per 100,000 living. | |||
| Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | |||||||
| All Ages | i 4,989 | 118 | 2.4 | 235 | 6 | 5,520 | 99 | 1.8 | 231 | 4 |
| 0— | 60 | 4 | 6.6 | 110 | 7 | 53 | 7 | 13.2 | 97 | 13 |
| 1— | 188 | 16 | 8.5 | 389 | 33 | 183 | 7 | 3.8 | 376 | 14 |
| 2— | 398 | 21 | 5.3 | 814 | 43 | 294 | 19 | 9.4 | 600 | 39 |
| 3— | 505 | 20 | 3.9 | 1,061 | 42 | 455 | 9 | 2.0 | 938 | 18 |
| 4— | 523 | 14 | 2.7 | 1,122 | 30 | 567 | 12 | 2.1 | 1,214 | 26 |
| 5— | 2,088 | 29 | 1.4 | 955 | 13 | 2,422 | 33 | 1.4 | 1,090 | 15 |
| 10— | 687 | 9 | 1.3 | 333 | 4 | 845 | 7 | .8 | 399 | 3 |
| 15— | 226 | 1 | .4 | 109 | 0 | 236 | 1 | .4 | 101 | 0 |
| 20— | 135 | 2 | 1.5 | 63 | 1 | 177 | 1 | .6 | 68 | 0 |
| 25— | 133 | 1 | .7 | 36 | 0 | 218 | 2 | .9 | 50 | 0 |
| 35— | 32 | — | — | 11 | — | 55 | _— | — | 18 | — |
| 45— | 10 | 1 | 10.0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | — | — | 3 | — |
| 55 & upwards | 4 | — | — | 2 | — | 8 | 1 | 12.5 | 3 | 0 |
(a) The cases are those notified daring the year, but the deaths, which are fully corrected, relate to a period
commencing somewhat later, in order that they may correspond more closely with the cases upon which the casemortality
is calculated