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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
Croydon 1897
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Table IV. .Showing the number of DEATHS from the Principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 Years,
1887 to 1896, and in the Year 1897.
| Disease. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | Average Annual Deaths in 10 years, 1887—1896. | Total Deaths in 1897. | Death Rate per 1000 Population in 10 years, 1887—1896. | Death Rate per 1000 Population in 1897. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 00 | .00 | ||
| Measles | 25 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 17 | 7 | 1 | - | 18 | 9 | 5 | ..34 | .16 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 5 | 3 | — | 19 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | .15 | .16 | ||
| Diphtheria | 9 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 4 | .34 | .13 | |
| Whooping Cough | — | 2 | 21 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 8 | 9 | .30 | .30 | |
| Fever | Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | .00 | 00 |
| Enteric | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | .11 | .10 | |
| Simple continued | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | .00 | .00 | |
| Diarrhoea | 16 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 20 | 20* | 9 | 17 | 18 | 13 | 28 | .49 | .93 | |
| Totals | 59 | 38 | 35 | 49 | 35 | 53 | 59 | 40 | 33 | 59 | 46 | 54 | 1.72 | 1.80 | |
| Zymotic Death-rate | 2.44 | 1.54 | 1.38 | 1.82 | 1.33 | 1.96 | 213 | 1.41 | 116 | 201 | — | — | 1.72 | 1.80 | |
| Zymotic Death-rate in England and Wales. | 242 | 1.88 | 223 | 215 | 1.91 | 20 | 2.47 | 1.81 | 217 | 221 | — | — | 212 | 2.15 | |
*Including a case of cholera.
N.B Before 1893, the deaths occurring outside the District among persons belonging thereto were not included in the above figures.