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, 1870-9, from the principal Zymotic Diseases, and the number in 1880, &c.
Diseases. | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | Annual Average 10 years 1870-79. | Proportion of deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1870-79. | 1880 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths, 1880. |
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Small-pox | 8 | 120 | 68 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 84 | 24 | 24 | 33.7 | 12.6 | 11 | 3.8 |
Measles | 70 | 64 | 43 | 38 | 121 | 23 | 128 | 54 | 53 | 60 | 65.4 | 24.5 | 75 | 26.0 |
Scarlet Fever | 198 | 95 | 29 | 10 | 32 | 83 | 59 | 31 | 77 | 51 | 66.5 | 25.0 | 105 | 36.5 |
Diphtheria | 14 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 26 | 23 | 17 | 10 | 20 | 26 | 17.2 | 6.5 | 22 | 7.6 |
Whooping Cough | 55 | 72 | 77 | 44 | 45 | 107 | 124 | 34 | 185 | 93 | 83.6 | 31.4 | 95 | 33.0 |
"Fever" | 46 | 48 | 42 | 41 | 52 | 29 | 36 | 27 | 33 | 23 | 37.7 | 14.1 | 33 | 11.4 |
Diarrhœa | 154 | 129 | 110 | 145 | 112 | 107 | 126 | 99 | 181 | 71 | 123.4 | 46.5 | 128 | 44.4 |
Totals,Kensington | 545 | 539 | 383 | 290 | 388 | 372 | 498 | 339 | 573 | 348 | 427.5 | 160.6 | 469 | 162.7 |
Totals, London | 16,476 | 19,455 | 12,669 | 11,385 | 11,230 | 13,411 | 12,565 | 12,365 | 14,734 | 12,256 | 13,654 | 173 | 13,681 | 170 |
TOTALS, | 100,497 | 103,801 | 91,743 | 89,286 | 88,200 | 82,332 | 75,506 | 66,558 | 84,624 | 62,020 | 84,456 | 163 | 82,537 | 156 |
ENGLAND & WALES' |