[Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds (England). City Council.
Date:
1907
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Credit: [Report 1907] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Glasgow 18’I and i8*5 respectively, Liverpool ip'O and Dublin 23*2. It may be 4'emembered that in 1906 we actually had the lowest rate in the list, as derived from the Registrar General’s quarterly reports. We took the lead of London, however, by only a decimal point, and when the Registrar General published his annual summary he gave the death rate of London as I5‘i instead of 157, so that with this correction Leeds stood second. In 1905 our position was also first, although not very much in advance of that of London ; but in 1904 we unfortunately stood fourth in the list; our averaged.position in the six preceding years was that of second. The figures referred to for 1907 will be found in table 2. In 1904 another table was given showing the comparative position of these nine towns for two periods of four years, and the one of six just mentioned. A similar table for the four periods of four years each, and for the two last of the eighteen years during which these com¬ parative rates have been prepared is given on p. 10 (table 2a). From this it will be seen that in the first period of four years, that from 1890 to 1893, Leeds stood fourth, with a rate of 21*9 ; that in the second period, 1894-1897, Leeds stood third, with a rate of I9'3 ; that in the third period, 1898-1901, Leeds stood second with a rate of I9‘4—the difference however from the rate in' Edinburgh being only decimal one. In 1902-1905 Leeds was again second, though on this occasion it stood equal to Edinburgh i6'g. In the two last years we have to record, London had a rate of 14*9, Leeds of 15*5, Edinburgh of i6’i, Birmingham of i6‘5, and Sheffield of i6'8, so that Leeds stood easily second. Recently the English Registrar General has extended, as already indicated, his system of correction for outsiders, and the London rates are considerably diminished and some of the provincial rates apparently increased. Leeds viortality since i88y.—The figures given in table 2 are those from the quarterly reports of the Registrar General. It is convenient before going further to consider the figures that are presented in table i and which are from our own gross rates