Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1910
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TABLE XII. Deaths from seven principal Infectious Diseases.
1900. | 1901. | 1902. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905. | 1906, | 1907. | 1908. | 1909. | Mean number of Deaths 1900-1909. | Mean Death-rate 1900-1909. | Deaths 1910. | Death-rate 1910. | |
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Smallpox | .. | 3 | 13 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1.6 | 0.01 | .. | 0.00 |
Measles | 80 | 37 | 168 | 62 | 64 | 85 | 53 | 69 | 71 | 74 | 76 | 0.51 | 65 | 0.41 |
Scarlet Fever | 23 | 20 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 23 | 18 | 14 | 17 | 10 | 16 | 0.17 | 7 | 0.04 |
Whooping Cough | 54 | 76 | 65 | 48 | 58 | 82 | 31 | 75 | 34 | 48 | 57 | 0.38 | 60 | 0.38 |
Diphtheria | 65 | 48 | 51 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 33 | 38 | 32 | 39 | 38 | 0.25 | 14 | 0.08 |
Enteric Fever | 19 | 22 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 0.08 | 2 | 0.01 |
Diarrhœa | 156 | 181 | 129 | 167 | 224 | 200 | 243 | 83 | 112 | 97 | 159 | 1.06 | 58 | 0.37 |
397 | 387 | 454 | 325 | 380 | 424 | 391 | 287 | 276 | 272 | 360 | 2.4 | 206 | 1.29 |