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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Table 29—County of London—Principal vital statistics, 1891-1938
| Period | Annual rate per 1,000 living | Annual mortality per 1,000 living | Annual mortality per 1,000 live births | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live births | Marriages | Deaths (all causes) | Cerebrospinal fever | Diphtheria | Enteric fever | Scarlet fever | Smallpox | Whooping-cough | Measles | Influenza | Tuberculosis | Pneumonia (all forms) | Bronchitis | Other resp- diseases | Heart disease | Cancer | Diabetes | Infants 0—1 | Diarrhoea and enteritis 0—2 | Puerperal fever | Other acc. of ch. birth | ||
| Pulmonary | Non -pulmonary | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1891-95 | 30.8 | 17.3 | 19.8 | (a) | 0.53 | 0.13 | 0.24 | 0.02 | 0.52 | 0.59 | 0.41 | 1.83 | 0.80 | 1.45 | 2.45 | 0.48 | (a) | 0.80 | 0.07 | 156 | 23.8 | 2.15 | 2.22 |
| 1896-1900 | 29.7 | 18.4 | 18.5 | (a) | 0.45 | 0.14 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.47 | 0.57 | 0.27 | 1.75 | 0.69 | 1.32 | 1.80 | 0.35 | (a) | 0.92 | 0.07 | 162 | 41.3 | 1.70 | 1.74 |
| 1901-05 | 28.6 | 17.7 | 16.4 | (a) | 0.20 | 0.08 | 0.11 | 0.07 | 0.36 | 0.45 | 0.17 | 1.58 | 0.57 | 1.46 | 1.41 | 0.26 | 1.31 | 1.01 | 0.08 | 139 | 30.4 | 1.64 | 1.52 |
| 1906-10 | 26.5 | 17.4 | 14.9 | (a) | 0.14 | 0.04 | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.29 | 0.42 | 0.22 | 1.39 | 0.48 | 1.49 | 1.22 | 0.22 | 1.26 | 1.11 | 0.10 | 114 | 23.8 | 1.46 | 1.47 |
| 1911-15 | 24.0 | 20.0 | 14.8 | 0.02 | 0.13 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.22 | 0.43 | 0.16 | 1.39 | 0.39 | 1.33 | 1.29 | 0.21 | 1.54 | 1.16 | 0.11 | 108 | 28.0 | 1.40 | 1.57 |
| 1916-20 | 20.0 | 20.1 | 15.1 | 0.04 | 0.17 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.28 | 1.01 | 1.43 | 0.34 | 1.38 | 1.30 | 0.19 | 1.78 | 1.28 | 0.09 | 92 | 15.4 | 1.64 | 1.72 |
| 1921-25 | 19.9 | 17.9 | 12.3 | 0.01 | 0.17 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.32 | 1.01 | 0.19 | 1.14 | 0.97 | 0.16 | 1.66 | 1.38 | 0.10 | 71 | 11.7 | 1.36 | 1.63 |
| 1926-30 | 16.2 | 18.6 | 12.3 | 0.02 | 0.10 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.16 | 0.30 | 0.90 | 0.14 | 1.00 | 0.72 | 0.16 | 2.29 | 1.52 | 0.12 | 64 | 10.2 | 1.66 | 1.69 |
| 1931-35 | 13.8 | 19.5 | 12.1 | 0.03 | 0.08 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.26 | 0.79 | 0.11 | 0.85 | 0.47 | 0.14 | 2.99 | 1.66 | 0.14 | 63 | 11.6 | 1.50 | 1.66 |
| 1936 | 13.6 | 21.5 | 12.3 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.01 | — | 0.07 | 0.14 | 0.13 | 0.69 | 0.09 | 0.82 | 0.49 | 0.12 | 3.43 | 1.78 | 0.15 | 66 | 14.5 | 0.75 | 1.23 |
| 1937 | 13.4 | 21.9 | 12.5 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.01 | — | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.40 | 0.71 | 0.09 | 0.86 | 0.48 | 0.12 | 3.50 | 1.79 | 0.16 | 60 | 12.3 | 0.84 | 1.45 |
| 1938 | 13.4 | 21.9 (b) | 11.4 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.01 | — | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.64 | 0.09 | 0.74 | 0.34 | 0.08 | 3.32 | 1.79 | 0.16 | 57 | 13.2 | 0.79 | 1.12 |
(a) Comparable figures are not available for this period. (b) Provisional rate.