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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lewisham 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: Table 17.Death Rates from principalZymotic DiseasesandPhthisis,andInfantile Mortalityin the Borough and its Divisions, in the County of London, and in the76Great Towns, for the Year1903.

Table 17.

Death Rates from principalZymotic DiseasesandPhthisis,andInfantile Mortalityin the Borough and its Divisions, in the County of London, and in the76Great Towns, for the Year1903.

Disease.Lee Division.Lewisham Division.Sydenham and Forest Hill Div.Whole BoroughCounty of London.76 Great Towns.
Small Pox___—0.000.03
Measles0.630.250.130.260.450.36
Scarlet Fever ...0.050.14—0.080.080.14
Diphtheria0.160.110.200.150.160.20
Whooping Cough—0.030.040.030.350.33
Enteric Fever ...0.100.10—0.070.090.12
EpidemicDiarrhcea and Enteritis...0.310.290.110.230.640.71
Total Zymotic Death Rates...1.250.910.490.821.771.89
Infantile Mortality Rate761038092131144
Phthisis Death Rate...0.520.780.900.781.55—

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Comparative Rates for other Boroughs will be found in Table 12.