Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea...
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number of deaths from each class of disease is shewn. The
zymotic death rate for 1898 was 3.0 per thousand persons.
TABLE XIII.
1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Measles | 87 | 104 | 159 | 37 | 90 | 90 | 151 | 99 | 185 | 76 | 119 |
Scarlet Fever | 25 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 17 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 6 |
Diphtheria | 22 | 21 | 35 | 28 | 90 | 67 | 60 | 5° | 52 | 45 | |
Enteric, &c., Fevers | 15 | 21 | 19 | 8 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 8 | |
Whooping Cough | 119 | 81 | 146 | 104 | 100 | 115 | 77 | 52 | 137 | 82 | 71 |
Epidemic Diarrhœa | 75 | 112 | 121 | 104 | 99 | 120 | 93 | 151 | 169 | 141 | 154 |
Other Zymotic Diseases | 22 | 21 | 59 | 89 | 133 | 118 | 62 | 104 | 45 | 25 | 114 |
Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases | 363 | 366 | 543 | 398 | 473 | 564 | 468 | 491 | 602 | 391 | 517 |
Zymotic Death Rate | 2.5 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 2.3 | 3.0 | |
Death-rates from all Diseases | 15.6 | 19.3 | 17.3 | 17.4 | 17.8 | 15.4 | 17.8 | 17.7 | 15.5 | 16.0 |
TABLE XIV.
1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tubercular, including Phthisis | 342 | 334 | 320 | 285 | 237 | 355 | 304 | 353 | 374 | 355 | 376 |
Of Brain, Nerves, &c. | 223 | 212 | 261 | 195 | 259 | 213 | 211 | 334 | 211 | 241 | 181 |
Of the Heart, &c. Of the Respiratory Or | 113 | 108 | 148 | 141 | 183 | 159 | 173 | 213 | 182 | 189 | 164 |
gans,excluding Phthisis | 474 | 391 | 618 | 572 | 635 | 653 | 471 | 623 | 531 | 439 | 383 |
Of Digestive Organs | 113 | 100 | 118 | 122 | 112 | 127 | 197 | 114 | 154 | 202 | 168 |
Of Urinary Organs | 24 | 39 | 34 | 49 | 72 | 60 | 57 | 56 | 88 | 69 | 75 |
Of Organs of Generation | 14 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 22 | 14 | 16 | |
Of Joints, Bones, &c. | 9 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 6 | — | 5 | 6 | 2 |
Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c. | 175 | 205 | 206 | 238 | 256 | 295 | 273 | 332 | 298 | 286 | 288 |
Of Uncertain Seat Cancer, Syphilis, Dropsy, &c. | 79 | 96 | 70 | 89 | 233 | 130 | 114 | 108 | 122 | 141 | 131 |
Age | 57 | 52 | 71 | 74 | 122 | 103 | 118 | 128 | 207 | 150 | 317 |
Violence | 56 | 60 | 77 | 60 | 81 | 102 | 70 | 102 | 117 | 118 | 122 |
Constitutional | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 12 | 23 | 20 | 40 | 28 | 19 | 22 |
Total | 1671 | 1614 | 1942 | 1850 | 2219 | 2237 | 2026 | 2410 | 2339 | 2229 | 2245 |
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