London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Hanover Square 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square]
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Bradford 18.0
Huddersfield 18.1
Leicester 18.2
Derby 18.3
Portsmouth 18.5
Nottingham 18.7
Cardiff 18.8
Plymouth 18.8
and the highest being:—
Oldham 22.0
Bolton 22.8
Manchester 23.8
Preston 24.1
Salford 24.6
Liverpool 24.7
The death-rate of Edinburgh was 19.4, or nearly the
same as that of Greater London (19.3), that of Glasgow
22.7, and that of Dublin 29.3.
As usual the lowest death-rates in Foreign cities were.
much higher than the death-rate of this parish, the nearest
to it being those of:—
Christiania 19.3
Berlin 196
Copenhagen 19.9
Amsterdam
Stockholm
20.0
and the highest being—
Bombay 32.1
Moscow 36.9
Hamburg 39.7
Alexandria 41.3
Madras 46.0
Cairo 47.0