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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

Deptford 1905

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1905

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The chief causes of death were Diarrhoea and Enteritis 80,
Bronchitis 57, Pneumonia 33, Whooping Cough 10, Measles 5,
Premature Birth 61, Accidents from Suffocation in bed (overlying),
&c., 20.

Table: The infantile mortality for the past seven years was:—

The infantile mortality for the past seven years was:—

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The Table of infantile mortality No 5 shows the causes of death
arranged in weeks and months under one year of age in the
three districts—North, South, and Central (see also Table No. 6
for the Wards).

Table: SHEWING THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROUGH DURING THE YEAR 1905.

SHEWING THE NUMBER OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE BOROUGH DURING THE YEAR 1905.

BIRTHS3290
DEATHS (including 498 in Outlying Public Institutions)1642
Excess of Births over Deaths1648

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ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The Registrar-General classifies under this heading—SmallPox,
Scarlet Fever, Measles, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, "Fever"
(Typhus, Enteric and Continued), Diarrhœa, and Plague.
The number of deaths registered from Zymotic diseases
amounted to 142, as compared with 264, 233, and 211 for the three
preceding years. Diarrhœa was the cause of 84 deaths, as compared
with 112 for the previous year.
The average death-rate from Zymotic diseases was 1.24 per
1000 persons living, as compared with 2.32 for the previous year.
The death-rate from this class of disease for England and
Wales was 1.52, that for the 75 great provincial towns 1.96, for
the 141 smaller provincial towns 1.50, and for the County of
London 1.71.
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Under this heading are included Small-Pox, Cholera, Diphtheria,
Membranous Croup, Erysipelas, Scarlet Fever, Typhus, Enteric,
Relapsing or Continued Fever and Puerperal Fever [Section 55
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891].