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London County Council 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Report of the County Medical Officer—General. 27
In the age-groups adopted for the purposes of this table, the greatest incidence of attack was upon males
and females aged 4-5 years. The greatest incidence of death was upon males aged 4-5 and females aged 2-3.
The tatality was highest among males and females under 1 year of age, if the obviously abnormal fatality among females aged 45-55, due to the smallness of the figures, is disregarded.
| Age-period. | Males. | Females. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified cases. | Deaths. | Case-mortaiity per cent. | Rates per 100,000 living. | Notified cases. | Deaths. | Case-mortality per cent. | Bates per 100,000 living. | |||
| Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | |||||||
| All Ages | 5,265 | 81 | 1-5 | 248 | 4 | 6,047 | 85 | 1-4 | 253 | 4 |
| 0- | 62 | 5 | 8.0 | 126 | 10 | 54 | 4 | 7.4 | 112 | 8 |
| 1- | 197 | 11 | 5.6 | 439 | 24 | 188 | 8 | 4.2 | 423 | 18 |
| 2- | 354 | 10 | 2.8 | 745 | 21 | 380 | 21 | 5.5 | 809 | 44 |
| 3- | 483 | 10 | 2.1 | 1,035 | 21 | 490 | 11 | 2.2 | 1,043 | 23 |
| 4- | 583 | 13 | 2.2 | 1,276 | 28 | 593 | 5 | 0.8 | 1,301 | 11 |
| 5- | 2,198 | 24 | 1.1 | 1,021 | 11 | 2,586 | 27 | 1.0 | 1,192 | 12 |
| 10- | 819 | 4 | 0.5 | 413 | 2 | 1,026 | 3 | 0.3 | 507 | 1 |
| 15- | 293 | 1 | 0.3 | 152 | 1 | 275 | 1 | 0.4 | 130 | 0 |
| 20- | 120 | 2 | 1.7 | 63 | 1 | 183 | 1 | 0.5 | 77 | 0 |
| 25- | 125 | 1 | 0.8 | 34 | 0 | 213 | 2 | 0.9 | 49 | 0 |
| 35- | 24 | — | — | 8 | — | 44 | 1 | 2.3 | 13 | 0 |
| 45- | 6 | — | — | 3 | — | 13 | 1 | 7.6 | 5 | 0 |
| 55 & upwards | 1 | — | — | 0 | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | - |
Scarlet fever
cases and
deaths byage
and sex,
London.
The following table shows the scarlet fever cases, deaths, case-rates, and death-rates for the year 1912 and the case-rates and death-rates for the period 1907-11 in the several sanitary districts.
| Metropolitan borough. | Notified cases, 1912 (52 weeks). | Case-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Deaths, 1912 (52 weeks). | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907-11. | 1912. | 1907-11. | 1912. | |||
| Paddington | 269 | 3.32 | 1.89 | 3 | 0.07 | 0.02 |
| Kensington | 304 | 2.19 | 1.77 | 5 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| Hammersmith | 333 | 3.23 | 2.72 | 4 | 0.07 | 0.03 |
| Fulham | 485 | 3.33 | 3.13 | 6 | 0.08 | 0.04 |
| Chelsea | 126 | 2.84 | 1.93 | 2 | 0.05 | 0.03 |
| Westminster, City of | 238 | 2.59 | 1.52 | 4 | 0.05 | 0.03 |
| St. Marylebone | 259 | 3.04 | 2.24 | 11 | 0.09 | 0.09 |
| Hampstead | 107 | 2.66 | 1.25 | 1 | 0.04 | 0.01 |
| St. Pancras | 597 | 3.33 | 2.77 | 5 | 0.09 | 0.02 |
| Islington | 811 | 3.30 | 2.49 | 9 | 0.07 | 0.03 |
| Stoke Newington | 90 | 2.94 | 1.78 | — | 0.09 | - |
| Hackney | 515 | 4.38 | 2.32 | 8 | 0.09 | 0.04 |
| Holborn | 114 | 2.48 | 2.38 | — | 0.06 | - |
| Finsbury | 157 | 3.31 | 1.83 | 5 | 0.11 | 0.06 |
| London, City of | 33 | 2.21 | 1.77 | — | 0.03 | - |
| Shoreditch | 153 | 4.02 | 1.39 | 5 | 0.13 | 0.05 |
| Bethnal Green | 283 | 5.19 | 2.22 | 2 | 0.19 | 0.02 |
| Stepney | 929 | 5.31 | 3.36 | 13 | 0.13 | 0.05 |
| Poplar | 314 | 5.05 | 1.95 | 3 | 0.15 | 0.02 |
| Southwark | 500 | 3.63 | 2.64 | 6 | 0.09 | 0.03 |
| Bermondsey | 418 | 4.38 | 3.35 | 8 | 0.15 | 0.06 |
| Lambeth | 596 | 3.85 | 2.01 | 9 | 0.09 | 0.03 |
| Battersea | 462 | 4.40 | 2.76 | 6 | 0.07 | 0.04 |
| Wandsworth | 812 | 3.43 | 2.53 | 11 | 0.06 | 0.03 |
| Camberwell | 634 | 3.66 | 2.43 | 8 | 0.07 | 0.03 |
| Deptford | 404 | 4.63 | 3.70 | 6 | 0.08 | 0.06 |
| Greenwich | 439 | 4.07 | 4.59 | 9 | 0.06 | 0.09 |
| Lewisham | 457 | 3.95 | 2.77 | 6 | 0.07 | 0.04 |
| Woolwich | 472 | 6.10 | 3.88 | 4 | 0.09 | 0.03 |
| Port of London | 1 | |||||
| London | 11,312 | 3.80 | 2.51 | 159 | 0.09 | 0.04 |
Scarlet Feve
in London
boroughs.
18820
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