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 10 years, 1867-76, from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, and the
number in 1877, &c.
Disease. | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | Annual Average 10 years 1867—76 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1867—76 | 1877 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1877. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Smallpox | 29 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 120 | 68 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 24.4 | 10.0 | 84 | 32.0 |
Measles | 19 | 84 | 27 | 70 | 64 | 43 | 38 | 121 | 23 | 128 | 61.7 | 25.5 | 51 | 20.5 |
Scarlet Fever | 35 | 170 | 106 | 198 | 95 | 29 | 10 | 32 | 83 | 59 | 81.7 | 33.7 | 31 | 11.7 |
Diphtheria | Not separately registered. | 9 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 26 | 23 | 17 | 12.5 | 5.1 | 10 | 3.8 | |
Whooping Cough | 68 | 34 | 71 | 55 | 72 | 77 | 44 | 45 | 107 | 124 | 69.7 | 28.8 | 34 | 12.9 |
"Fever" | 46 | 52 | 42 | 46 | 48 | 42 | 41 | 52 | 29 | 36 | 43.4 | 17.9 | 27 | 10.3 |
Diarrhœa | 78 | 113 | 108 | 154 | 129 | 110 | 145 | 112 | 107 | 126 | 118.2 | 49.0 | 99 | 37.8 |
Total, Kensington | 275 | 457 | 369 | 545 | 539 | 383 | 290 | 388 | 372 | 498 | 411.6 | 170.0 | 339 | 129 |
Total, London | 11,660 | 14,925 | 17,413 | 16,476 | 19,455 | 12,699 | 11,385 | 11,230 | 13,411 | 12,565 | 14,121 | 185 | 12,365 | 160 |
TOTAL, ENGLAND &WALES 1865-74* | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1865-74 | 1865-74 | 1875 | 1875 |
82,692 | 72,587 | 97,352 | 90,380 | 100,497 | 103,801 | 91,743 | 89,286 | 88,200 | 82,000 | 90,856 | 182 | 92,030 | 150 |
* The Totals for England and Wales are for the ten years 1865—74, compared with 1875, the last year of publication