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 Leyton]
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Table XVII.-Deaths from the Nine Chief Zymotic Diseases for the last Six Years
together with the zymotic death-rate and rate of mortality from all other disease.
1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | - | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Measles | 13 | 31 | 15 | 37 | 25 | 26 |
Scarlet Fever | 7 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 9 |
Diphtheria | 27 | 36 | 36 | 27 | 14 | 10 |
Membranous Croup | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
Whooping Cough | 47 | 45 | 59 | 40 | 44 | 28 |
Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Typhoid | 14 | 14 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
Diarrhoea | 113 | 125 | 48 | 36 | 186 | 55 |
Total | 221 | 264 | 183 | 163 | 285 | 148 |
Deaths from all other Diseases | 958 | 979 | 1000 | 949 | 1085 | 1029 |
Death-rate from Seven Chief Zymotic Diseases | 2.21 | 2.64 | 1.83 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 1.2 |
Death-rate from all other Diseases | 9.5 | 9.7 | 10.0 | 9.3 | 10.4 | 10.0 |
General Death-rate | 11.8 | 12.34 | 11.8 | 10.8 | 13.1 | 11.2 |