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London County Council 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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10
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.

Table: The death-rate in successive periods has been as follows :—

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.
1841-185024.8190416-5a
1851-186023.7190515.6a
1861-187024.4190615.8a
1871-188022.5190715.3a
1881-189020.3190814.6a
1891-190019.2a190915.0a
1901-1910l5.7a191013.7a
190117.2a191115.0a
190217.4a191213. 6a
190315.4a191314.2a

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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.

Table: 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.

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.
England & Wales36,919,83914.1513.6813.8513.39946
London4,518,19114-3814.1614.3814.161,000
Liverpool756,55319.1117.9419.7318.521,308
Manchester730,97617.1315.5618.5016.801,186
Birmingham859,64415.8114.7116.5015.351,084
Sheffield471,66215.3815.7416.1816.561,169
Leeds457,29515.4815.4116.4016.331,153
Bristol361,36213.7412.6813.5112.47881
West Ham294,22314.8014.5015.2814.881,051
Bradford290,54014.8514.9415.6715.761,113
Hull287,03215.6114.7715.7014.851,049
Newcastle-on-Tyne271,29515.5915.0516.4115.841,119
Nottingham264,73515.4714.1415.6114.271,008
Stoke-on-Trent239,28418.0618.6519.2619.891,405
Portsmouth241,25613.3912.2313.2412.09854
Salford233,84917.3515.7918.6116.941,196
Leicester230,97013.3913.3313.7713.71968

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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.

Table: The following table enables comparison to be made of the crude death-rate of London with that of several foreign tiowns :—

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•
London14.4a14.2aStockholm14.113.1
Greater London13.212.8Petrograd24.021.4
Paris17.015.9Berlin15.013.7
Brussels13.912.0Vienna16.415.5
Amsterdam12.411.4New York15.614.0
Copenhagen14.813.7
(a) See footnote (c), page 6.