Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table V. Showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in 1885, and in the 10 years 1875 to 1884.
Disease. | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1875-84. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, l875-84. | Total Deaths in 1885. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1885. |
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Small-Pox | 2 | 22 | 129 | 94 | 19 | 18 | 84 | 6 | 3 | 61 | 43.8 | 8.7 | 63 | 13.1 |
Measles | 82 | 117 | 143 | 48 | 129 | 58 | 172 | 130 | 99 | 89 | 106.7 | 21.4 | 190 | 39.1 |
Scarlet Fever | 240 | 137 | 89 | 138 | 144 | 156 | 180 | 66 | 61 | 44 | 125.5 | 25.1 | 31 | 6.5 |
Diphtheria | 55 | 38 | 22 | 23 | 25 | 34 | 70 | 51 | 78 | 45 | 44.1 | 8.8 | 37 | 7.7 |
Whooping Cough | 232 | 198 | 141 | 217 | 154 | 293 | 122 | 288 | 72 | 202 | 191.9 | 38.5 | 144 | 30.0 |
Typhus Fever | 8 | 5 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | •• | 2 | 1 | 4.6 | 0.9 | . | .. |
Enteric Fever | 35 | 60 | 58 | 59 | 57 | 43 | 66 | 69 | 132 | 55 | 63.4 | 12.6 | 37 | 7.7 |
Simple Continued Fever | 16 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | •• | 2 | .. | 5.6 | 1.1 | 2 | 0.4 |
Diarrhœa & Simple Cholera | 178 | 239 | 155 | 229 | 118 | 204 | 211 | 119 | 162 | 227 | 184.2 | 36.9 | 125 | 26.1 |
Totals | 848 | 823 | 767 | 816 | 655 | 811 | 914 | 729 | 611 | 724 | 769.8 | 154.0 | 629 | 131.2 |
Totals—London | 13,240 | 12,536 | 12,232 | 14,619 | 12,010 | 13,735 | 13,811 | 13,553 | 10,801 | 13,629 | 13,026 | 1600 | 11,647 | 146.8 |