Table: The following table shows the death-rates from whooping cough in London per 1,000 children living at ages 0-5 years. The rates are shown for each decennium from 1851 and for the several years from 1901 to 1912.
The following table shows the death-rates from whooping cough in London per 1,000 children living at ages 0-5 years. The rates are shown for each decennium from 1851 and for the several years from 1901 to 1912.
Whoopingcough
deathrates—
children
0-5 years.
The death-rate in each year since 1840 in relation to the mean of the period 1841-1912 is shown
in diagram (P), while the deaths in each month since 1890 in relation to the mean monthly deaths of
the period 1891-1912 are shown in diagram (H), facing page 24.
Table: It will be seen from the following table that in the quinquennium 1907-11 the London whooping-cough death-rate was exceeded by that of all the undermentioned towns except Bristol, Bradford, Hull, Nottingham, Portsmouth and Leicester; while in the year 1912 it exceeded that of Leeds, Bristol, Bradford, Hull, Newcastle and Leicester.
It will be seen from the following table that in the quinquennium 1907-11 the London whooping-cough death-rate was exceeded by that of all the undermentioned towns except Bristol, Bradford, Hull, Nottingham, Portsmouth and Leicester; while in the year 1912 it exceeded that of Leeds, Bristol, Bradford, Hull, Newcastle and Leicester.
Whoopingcough
deathrates
in
large
English
towns.
(a) See footnote (c), page 4. (6) Including deaths of Londoners in the Metropolitan Workhouses
Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums outside the County, but excluding those of non-Londoners in the London Fever Hospital,
the West Ham Union Workhouse at Hackney, the Metropolitan Asylums Hospitals and the Middlesex County Asylum,
within the County of London.
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