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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

Lewisham 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: Table 17.Death Ratesfrom principalZymotic DiseasesandPhthisis,andInfantile Mortalityin the Borough and its Divisions, in the County of London, and in the76Great Towns, for the Year1907.

Table 17.

Death Ratesfrom principalZymotic DiseasesandPhthisis,andInfantile Mortalityin the Borough and its Divisions, in the County of London, and in the76Great Towns, for the Year1907.

Disease.Lee Division.Lewisham Division.Sydenham and Forest Hill Div.Whole BoroughCounty of London.76 Great Towns.
Small-Pox-----0.00
Measles-0.180.040.110.380.43
Scarlet Fever0.100.090.040.080.140.12
Diphtheria—0.150.080.110.160.17
Whooping Cough0.200.270.490.330.880.35
Enteric Fever—0.01—0.010.040.07
EpidemicDiarrhœa and Enteritis—0.080.060.070.320.40
Dysentery—0.01-0.01
Total Zymotic Death Rates0.300.800.720.711.421.54
Infantile Mortality Rate70909790116127
Phthisis Death Rate0.750.930.930.901.40—

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Comparative Rates for other Boroughs will be found in Table 12.