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London County Council 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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42
Annual Report of the London County Council, 1910.
The death-rate in each year since 1840 in relation to the mean of the period 1841-1910 is shown
in diagram (P.), while the deaths in each month since 1890 in relation to the mean monthly deaths of
the period 1891-1910 are shown in diagram (G.), facing page 31.
It will be seen from the following table that in the quinquennium 1905-9 the London whooping-cough death-rate was exceeded by that of all the undermentioned towns except Leeds, Bristol, Bradford, Nottingham and Leicester, while in the year 1910 it exceeded that of all except Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle and Salford:—
| Town. | 1905-9. | 1910. | Town. | 1905-9. | 1910. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 0.30a | 0.30a | West Ham | 0.48 | 0.29 |
| Greater London | 0.28 | 0.26 | Bradford | 0.22 | 0.15 |
| Liverpool | 0.38 | 0.60 | Newcastle-on-Tyne | 0.37 | 0.30 |
| Manchester | 0.33 | 0.56 | Hull | 0.31 | 0.24 |
| Birmingham | 0.40 | 0.40 | Nottingham | 0.28 | 0.25 |
| Leeds | 0.29 | 0.34 | Salford | 0.34 | 0.44 |
| Sheffield | 0.32 | 0.41 | Leicester | 0.23 | 0.23 |
| Bristol | 0.25 | 0.19 |
Whoopingcough
deathrates
in large
English
towns.
The following table shows that the London whooping-cough death-rate was, in the quinquennium 1905-9, higher than that of any of the undermentioned foreign towns except Copenhagen, and in the year 1910 higher than all.
| Town. | 1905-9. | 1910. | Town. | 1905-9. | 1910. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 0.30a | 0.30a | St. Petersburg | 0.25 | 0.22 |
| Paris | 0.10 | 0.12 | Berlin | 0.21 | 0.11 |
| Brussels | 0.08 | 0.09 | Vienna | 0.09 | 0.10 |
| Amsterdam | 0.23 | 0.12 | Rome | 0.10 | 0.09 |
| Copenhagen | 0.29 | 0.14 | New York | 0.08 | 0.06 |
| Stockholm | 0.15 | 0.17 |
Whoopingcough
deathrates
in
foreign
towns.
The following table shows the whooping-cough deaths and death-rates for the year 1910 and the death-rates for the period 1905-9 in the several sanitary districts :—
| Metropolitan borough. | Deaths, 1910 (52 weeks). | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1905-9. | 1910. | ||
| Paddington | 32 | 0.22 | 0.22 |
| Kensington | 32 | 0.24 | 0.19 |
| Hammersmith | 26 | 0.29 | 0.22 |
| Fulham | 60 | 0.37 | 0.39 |
| Chelsea | 12 | 0.27 | 0.18 |
| Westminster, City of | 18 | 0.12 | 0.11 |
| St. Marylebone | 44 | 0.19 | 0.37 |
| Hampstead | 11 | 0.13 | 0.13 |
| St. Pancras | 96 | 0.29 | 0.44 |
| Islington | 124 | 0.27 | 0.38 |
| Stoke Newington | 7 | 0.26 | 0.14 |
| Hackney | 61 | 0.24 | 0.27 |
| Holborn | 16 | 0.29 | 0.32 |
| Finsbury | 36 | 0.46 | 0.40 |
| London, City of | 2 | 0.16 | 0.10 |
| Shoreditch | 46 | 0.60 | 0.41 |
| Bethnal Green | 35 | 0.40 | 0.27 |
| Stepney | 114 | 0.37 | 0.41 |
| Poplar | 84 | 0.45 | 0.52 |
| Southwark | 60 | 0.35 | 0.31 |
| Bermondsey | 43 | 0.34 | 0.34 |
| Lambeth | 54 | 0.26 | 0.18 |
| Battersea | 51 | 0.35 | 0.30 |
| Wandsworth | 70 | 0.27 | 0.23 |
| Camberwell | 70 | 0.28 | 0.27 |
| Deptford | 48 | 0.34 | 0.44 |
| Greenwich | 57 | 0.28 | 0.59 |
| Lewisham | 29 | 0.21 | 0.18 |
| Woolwich | 25 | 0.20 | 0.21 |
| London | 1363 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
(a) See footnote (c) page 8.