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, 1871-80, from the principal Zymotic Diseases, and the number in 1881, &c.
Diseases. | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | Annual Average 10 years 1871-80. | Proportion of deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1871-80. | 1881 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths, 1881. |
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Small-pox | 120 | 68 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 84 | 24 | 24 | 11 | 34.0 | 12.5 | 55 | 20.1 |
Measles | 64 | 43 | 38 | 121 | 23 | 128 | 54 | 53 | 60 | 75 | 65.9 | 24.3 | 67 | 24.5 |
Scarlet Fever | 95 | 29 | 10 | 32 | 83 | 59 | 31 | 77 | 51 | 105 | 57.2 | 21.1 | 36 | 13.2 |
Diphtheria | 11 | 14 | 11 | 26 | 23 | 17 | 10 | 20 | 26 | 22 | 18.0 | 6.6 | 8 | 2.9 |
Whooping Cough | 72 | 77 | 44 | 45 | 107 | 124 | 34 | 185 | 93 | 95 | 87.6 | 32.3 | 85 | 31.0 |
"Fever" | 48 | 42 | 41 | 52 | 29 | 36 | 27 | 33 | 23 | 33 | 36.4 | 13.4 | 31 | 11.3 |
Diarrhœa | 129 | 110 | 145 | 112 | 107 | 126 | 99 | 181 | 71 | 128 | 12.08 | 44.5 | 101 | 37.0 |
Totals,Kensington | 539 | 383 | 290 | 388 | 372 | 498 | 339 | 573 | 348 | 469 | 419.9 | 154.7 | 383 | 140.0 |
Totals, London | 19,455 | 12,699 | 11,385 | 11,230 | 13,411 | 12,565 | 12,292 | 14,734 | 12,256 | 13,681 | 13,708 | 173 | 13,811 | 170 |
TOTALS, ENGLAND & WALES. | 103,801 | 91,743 | 70,402 | 88,200 | 82,332 | 75,506 | 66,558 | 84,624 | 62,020 | 82,537 | 80,772 | 156 | 58,239 | 118 |