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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 1915
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Whooping Cough.
Average for
1915. previous 10 years.
Number of Deaths 61 34
Death rate per 1000, Deptford 0.55 0.29
This disease was the cause of 61 deaths compared with 9, 43 and 24
for the three preceding years.
The death rate per 1000 persons living was 0.55 as compared
with 0.8, 0.39 and 0.22 for the three preceding years.
The deaths occurred among the inhabitants of the various Wards
as follows:—
East 22. North 15. North-West 9.
South 3. South-East 6. South-West 6.
The following table shows the periods of the year, and the localities in which deaths from Whooping Cough occurred, the sex and ages at death.
| WARDS. | QUARTERS. | YEAR. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March. | June. | Sept. | Dec. | |||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F | M | F | Total. | ||||
| East | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 3 | – | 1 | – | 10 | 12 | 22 | |||
| North | 2 | – | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 7 | 8 | 15 | |||
| North-West | 3 | 1 | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 4 | 5 | 9 | |||
| South | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||
| South-East | – | 1 | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||
| South-West | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
| Total | 11 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 29 | 32 | 61 | |||
| AGES AT DEATH. | ||||||||||||||
| Under l | 1-2 | 2-5 | 5-15 | 15-25 | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65 & upward | All Ages. | ||||||
| 23 | 23 | 14 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 61 | ||||||
Institutional Isolation of Measles and Whooping Cough.
The continued prevalence and high rate of mortality of measles and
of whooping cough are matters of grave concern. In 1914, the latest
year for which there are records, there were 9144 deaths from measles