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London County Council 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1911
Whoopingcough
death
rates in large
English
towns.
Nottingham, Portsmouth and Leicester ; while in the year 1911 it exceeded that of all except Liverpool, Leeds, Bristol, West Ham, Bradford, Newcastle, Hull and Stoke-on-Trent.
| Town. | 1906-10. | 1911. | Town. | 1906-10. | 1911. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | Bradford | 0.18 | 0.33 | ||
| Greater London | 0.27 | 0.21 | Hull | 0.26 | 0.36 |
| Liverpool | 0.46 | 0.32 | Newcastle-on-Tyne | 0.36 | 0.48 |
| Manchester | 0.38 | 0.20 | Nottingham | 0.28 | 0.15 |
| Birmingham | 0.42 | 0.19 | Stoke-on-Trent | 0.31 | 0.31 |
| Sheffield | 0.34 | 0.14 | Portsmouth | 0.23 | 0.17 |
| Leeds | 0.31 | 0.33 | Salford | 0.39 | 0.16 |
| Bristol | 0.22 | 0.40 | Leicester | 0.24 | 0.19 |
| West Ham | 0.42 | 0.23 |
Whoopingcough
deathrates
in
foreign
towns.
The following table shows that the London whooping-cough death-rate was, in the quinquennium 1906-10, higher than that of any of the undermentioned foreign towns, and in the year 1911 higher than that of all except Amsterdam and Copenhagen.
| Town. | 1906-10. | 1911. | | Town. | 1906-10. | 1911. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 0.29a | 0.23 a | Stockholm | 0.16 | 0.08 |
| Paris | 0.10 | 0.09 | St. Petersburg | 0.24 | 0.19 |
| Brussels | 0.08 | 0.03 | Berlin | 0.17 | 0.21 |
| Amsterdam | 0.19 | 0.24 | Vienna | 0.08 | 0.06 |
| Copenhagen | 0.28 | 0.38 | New York | 0.07 | 0.08 |
The following table shows the whooping-cough deaths and death-rates for the year 1911 and the death-rates for the period 1906-10 in the several sanitary districts:—
| Metropolitan borough. | Deaths, 1911 (52 weeks). | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-10. | 1911. | ||
| Paddington | 44 | 0.20 | 0.31 |
| Kensington | 54 | 0.21 | 0.31 |
| Hammersmith | 35 | 0.24 | 0.29 |
| Fulham | 28 | 0.33 | 0.18 |
| Chelsea | 10 | 0.24 | 0.15 |
| Westminster, City of | 26 | 0.11 | 0.16 |
| St. Marylebone | 28 | 0.23 | 0.24 |
| Hampstead | 3 | 0.11 | 0.04 |
| St. Pancras | 55 | 0.31 | 0.25 |
| slington | 70 | 0.28 | 0.21 |
| Stoke Newington | 18 | 0.25 | 0.36 |
| Hackney | 58 | 0.24 | 0.26 |
| Holbom | 3 | 0.29 | 0.06 |
| Finsbury | 24 | 0.48 | 0.27 |
| London, City of | 1 | 0.16 | 0.05 |
| Shoreditch | 32 | 0.54 | 0.29 |
| Bethnal Green | 49 | 0.37 | 0.38 |
| Stepney | 49 | 0.36 | 0.18 |
| Poplar | 44 | 0.46 | 0.27 |
| Soutliwark | 64 | 0.33 | 0.34 |
| Bermondsey | 50 | 0.35 | 0.40 |
| Lambeth | 67 | 0.25 | 0.23 |
| Battersea | 36 | 0.36 | 0.22 |
| Wandsworth | 70 | 0.26 | 0.22 |
| Camberwell | 45 | 0.28 | 0.17 |
| Deptford | 37 | 0.40 | 0.34 |
| Greenwich | 14 | 0.37 | 0.15 |
| Lewisham | 18 | 0.21 | 0.11 |
| Woolwich | 6 | 0.22 | 0.05 |
| London | 1038 | 0..29 | 0.23 |
It will be seen from the foregoing table that in the period 1906-10 the highest whooping-cough
death-rate obtained in Shoreditch (0.54), and the lowest in Westminster and Hampstead (0.11); in
the year 1911, Bermondsey (0.40) had the highest death-rate and Hampstead (0.04) the lowest. The
(a) See footnote (c), page 2.