Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year 1893
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TABLE V.
Showing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class in the ten years 1883-92, and in the year 1893.
Diseases. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | Annual Average of ten years 1883-92. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in ten years 1883-92. | Deaths in 1893. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1893. | |
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Small-pox | 1 | 26 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | 1.9 | 9 | 3.1 | |
Measles | 39 | 32 | 111 | 56 | 108 | 124 | 14 | 140 | 29 | 109 | 76.2 | 27.4 | 18 | 6.2 | |
Scarlet Fever | 28 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 44 | 26 | 28 | 26 | 16 | 36 | 24.0 | 8.6 | 51 | 17.5 | |
Diphtheria | 24 | 17 | 22 | 30 | 40 | 89 | 111 | 35 | 28 | 31 | 42.7 | 15.4 | 83 | 28.5 | |
Whooping-cough | 44 | 81 | 98 | 82 | 86 | 100 | 26 | 93 | 84 | 63 | 75.7 | 27.3 | 65 | 22.3 | |
Typhus Fever | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | ... | ... | ... | |
Enteric Fever | 30 | 26 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 24 | 15 | 18.4 | 6.6 | 17 | 5.8 | |
Simp. Continued Fever | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1.4 | 0.5 | ... | ... | |
Diarrhoea | 80 | 110 | 86 | 90 | 124 | 58 | 71 | 78 | 91 | 77 | 86.5 | 31.1 | 98 | 33.6 | |
TOTALS. | Kensington. | 251 | 314 | 361 | 280 | 416 | 420 | 269 | 387 | 273 | 333 | 330.4 | 118.8 | 341 | 117.0 |
London. | 10801 | 13629 | 11261 | 11121 | 12684 | 10803 | 9709 | 12279 | 9675 | 11983 | 11394 | 136.8 | 13223 | 144.4 | |
England & Wales | 58972 | 71762 | 57726 | 62859 | 64676 | 50684 | 61027 | 59698 | 53221 | 56032 | 59666 | 110.8 | 73499 | 128.9 |