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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TABLE V.
Showing the number of Deaths in 10 years, 1866-75, from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, and the number in 1876, &c.
Disease. | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | Annual Average 10 years 1866—75 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1865—75 | 1876 | Proportion of Deaths to 11 00 Deaths in 1876. |
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Smallpox | 10 | 29 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 120 | 68 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24.6 | 16.5 | 8 | 2.7 |
Measles | 40 | 19 | 84 | 27 | 70 | 64 | 43 | 38 | 121 | 23 | 52.9 | 23.5 | 128 | 44.3 |
Scarlet Fever | 28 | 35 | 170 | 106 | 198 | 95 | 29 | 10 | 32 | 83 | 78.6 | 34.0 | 59 | 20.4 |
Diphtheria | Not separately registered. | 9 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 26 | 23 | 10.8 | 4.6 | 17 | 5.8 | ||
Whooping Cough | 28 | 68 | 34 | 71 | 55 | 72 | 77 | 44 | 45 | 107 | 60.1 | 25.4 | 124 | 42.9 |
"Fever" | 33 | 46 | 52 | 42 | 46 | 48 | 42 | 41 | 52 | 29 | 43.1 | 18.2 | 36 | 12.4 |
Diarrhoea | 112 . | 78 | 113 | 108 | 154 | 129 | 110 | 145 | 112 | 107 | 116.8 | 49.7 | 126 | 43.5 |
Total, Kensington | 251 | 275 | 457 | 369 | 545 | 539 | 383 | 290 | 388 | 372 | 386.9 | 165.9 | 498 | 172 |
Total, London | 14,761 | 11,660 | 14,925 | 17,413 | 16,476 | 19,455 | 12,699 | 11,385 | 11,230 | 13,411 | 13,341 | 187 | 12,565 | 162 |
Total, England & Wales 1865—74* | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1865—74 | 1865—74 | 1875 | 1875 |
92,030 | 82,692 | 72,587 | 97,352 | 90,380 | 100,497 | 103,801 | 91,743 | 89,286 | 96,279 | 88,200 | 185 | 82,332 | 151 |
The Totals for England and Wales are for the ten yeara 1865—74, compared with 1875, the last year of publication at present.