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 Kensington]
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Showing the number of Deaths in the 10 years, 1865-74, from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, and the
number in 1875, &c.
Disease. | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | Annual Average 10 years, 1865—74. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1865—74. | 1875 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1875. |
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Smallpox | 18 | 10 | 29 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 120 | 68 | 1 | 0 | 26.4 | 11.9 | 0 | 0 |
Measles | 52 | 40 | 19 | 84 | 27 | 70 | 64 | 43 | 38 | 121 | 55.8 | 25.0 | 23 | 8.2 |
Scarlet Fever | 31 | 28 | 35 | 170 | 106 | 198 | 95 | 29 | 10 | 32 | 73.4 | 33.2 | 83 | 29.5 |
Diphtheria | Not separately registered. | 9 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 26 | 8.5 | 3.8 | 23 | 8.2 | |||
Whooping Cough | 37 | 28 | 68 | 34 | 71 | 55 | 72 | 77 | 44 | 45 | 53.1 | 24.3 | 107 | 38.4 |
"Fever" | 77 | 33 | 46 | 52 | 42 | 46 | 48 | 42 | 41 | 52 | 47.9 | 21.7 | 29 | 10.4 |
Diarrhœa | 101 | 112 | 78 | 113 | 108 | 154 | 129 | 110 | 145 | 112 | 116.5 | 52.6 | 107 | 38.4 |
Total, Kensington | 319 | 251 | 275 | 457 | 369 | 545 | 539 | 383 | 290 | 388 | 381.6 | 172.5 | 372 | 133 |
Total, London | 14,272 | 14,761 | 11,660 | 14,925 | 17,413 | 16,476 | 19,455 | 12,699 | 11,385 | 11,230 | 14,427 | 178 | 13,411 | 164 |
Total, England & Wales 1863-72* | 1863 | 1864 | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1863—72 | 1863—72. | 1873 | 1873 |
98,490 | 96,279 | 92,030 | 82,692 | 72,587 | 97,352 | 90,380 | 100,497 | 103,801 | 91,743 | 92,584 | 188 | 89,286 | 181 | |
* The Totals for England and Wales are for the ten years 1863—72, compared with 1873, the last year of publication at the present time. |