Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Annual Report of the London County Council, 1913.
Death-rates
all causes
Deaths.
The number of deaths in the Administrative County of London in 1913 (53 weeks) was 65,030
giving an annual death rate of 14*2 per 1,000 of the estimated population.
The death-rate in successive periods has been as follows :—
Period. | Death-rate (All Causes) per 1,000 persons living. | Period. | Death-rato (All Causes) per l,0()0persons living. |
---|---|---|---|
1841-1850 | 24.8 | 1904 | 16-5a |
1851-1860 | 23.7 | 1905 | 15.6a |
1861-1870 | 24.4 | 1906 | 15.8a |
1871-1880 | 22.5 | 1907 | 15.3a |
1881-1890 | 20.3 | 1908 | 14.6a |
1891-1900 | 19.2a | 1909 | 15.0a |
1901-1910 | l5.7a | 1910 | 13.7a |
1901 | 17.2a | 1911 | 15.0a |
1902 | 17.4a | 1912 | 13. 6a |
1903 | 15.4a | 1913 | 14.2a |
The death-rate in each year since 1840 in relation to the mean death-rate of the period
] 841-1913 is shown in diagram (C).
The following table has been prepared for the purpose of comparing the death-rate of London
with those of other English towns having populations which exceeded 200,000 persons at the census of 1911.
Death-rates
in large
English
towns.
The columns showing death-rates corrected for age and sex distribution have been obtained by multiplying the crude death-rates by the "factors for correction" published by the Registrar-General in the ^Annual Summary for 1912.
Town. | Estimated Population (middle of 1913). | Crude death-rate per 1,000 persons living. | Death-rate per 1,000 persons living (corrected for age and sex distribution). | Comparative mortality figure. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1908-12. | 1913. | 1908-12. | 1913. | 1913. | ||
Liverpool | 756,553 | 19.11 | 17.94 | 19.73 | 18.52 | 1,308 |
Manchester | 730,976 | 17.13 | 15.56 | 18.50 | 16.80 | 1,186 |
Birmingham | 859,644 | 15.81 | 14.71 | 16.50 | 15.35 | 1,084 |
Sheffield | 471,662 | 15.38 | 15.74 | 16.18 | 16.56 | 1,169 |
Leeds | 457,295 | 15.48 | 15.41 | 16.40 | 16.33 | 1,153 |
Bristol | 361,362 | 13.74 | 12.68 | 13.51 | 12.47 | 881 |
West Ham | 294,223 | 14.80 | 14.50 | 15.28 | 14.88 | 1,051 |
Bradford | 290,540 | 14.85 | 14.94 | 15.67 | 15.76 | 1,113 |
Hull | 287,032 | 15.61 | 14.77 | 15.70 | 14.85 | 1,049 |
Newcastle-on-Tyne | 271,295 | 15.59 | 15.05 | 16.41 | 15.84 | 1,119 |
Nottingham | 264,735 | 15.47 | 14.14 | 15.61 | 14.27 | 1,008 |
Stoke-on-Trent | 239,284 | 18.06 | 18.65 | 19.26 | 19.89 | 1,405 |
Portsmouth | 241,256 | 13.39 | 12.23 | 13.24 | 12.09 | 854 |
Salford | 233,849 | 17.35 | 15.79 | 18.61 | 16.94 | 1,196 |
Leicester | 230,970 | 13.39 | 13.33 | 13.77 | 13.71 | 968 |
London had therefore (comparing the corrected death-rates) both in the quinquennium 19081912
and in the year 1913 a lower death-rate than any of these towns except Bristol, Portsmouth, and
Leicester.
Death-rates
in foreign
towns.
The following table enables comparison to be made of the crude death-rate of London with that of several foreign tiowns :—
Town. | 1908-12. | 1913. | Town. | 1908-12. | 1913• |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Greater London | 13.2 | 12.8 | Petrograd | 24.0 | 21.4 |
Paris | 17.0 | 15.9 | Berlin | 15.0 | 13.7 |
Brussels | 13.9 | 12.0 | Vienna | 16.4 | 15.5 |
Amsterdam | 12.4 | 11.4 | New York | 15.6 | 14.0 |
Copenhagen | 14.8 | 13.7 | |||
(a) See footnote (c), page 6. |