Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1896.

City of London (London, England). Corporation of London.

Date:: 1897

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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1896. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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9 The number of deaths from the principal zymotic diseases was 33, or 1.05 per 1,000, against 3T4 for the Metropolis. The deaths of children under 1 year of age to 1,000 births comes out 133, against 161 for the whole of London. The number of children born in the City (see table B) was 534. The birth rate, there fore was 17.0 per 1,000. The birth rate for the whole of London is given as 30.2. This wide variation is due to the differences in the sex and age distribution of their popu lations. Of the births 345 were successfully vac cinated, 1 was insusceptible, 45 died before the age for vaccination, 24 were postponed by medical certificate, 50 removed into other districts, and 69 were pending at the end of the year. See table (Vaccination Report). During the same period a number of adults, etc., were re-vaccinated.