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 St. Giles District]
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TABLE No. 16.—Showing the Number of Deaths in the Ten Years 1866 to 1875, from the Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases
and the Number, in 1876.
Disease. | 1866. | 1867. | 1868. | 1869. | 1870. | 1871. | 1872. | 1873. | 1874. | 1875. | Annual average of 10 years, 1866 to 1875. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 10 years, 1866 to 1875. | 1876. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1876. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | 22 | 31 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 88 | 8 | ... | ... | ... | 17.1 | 12.36 | 4 | 3.35 |
Measles | 47 | 20 | 23 | 19 | 29 | 15 | 37 | 27 | 31 | 15 | 26.3 | 19.0 | 24 | 20.13 |
Scarlet-Fever | 62 | 23 | 71 | 48 | 103 | 20 | 5 | 8 | 48 | 48 | 43.6 | 31.51 | 31 | 26.0 |
Diptheria | 9 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 4.4 | 3.18 | 2 | 1.67 | ||
Whooping-Cough | 32 | 69 | 42 | 83 | 16 | 38 | 42 | 29 | 27 | 49 | 42.7 | 30.85 | 31 | 26.0 |
Fever | 48 | 41 | 18 | 37 | 31 | 26 | 9 | 29 | 54 | 10 | 30.3 | 21.90 | 14 | 11.74 |
Diarrhœa | 131 | 77 | 77 | 64 | 83 | 62 | 71 | 80 | 59 | 53 | 75.7 | 54.72 | 55 | 46.14 |
Total | 351 | 267 | 243 | 257 | 281 | 256 | 177 | 175 | 219 | 175 | 240.1 | 173.52 | 161 | 135.0 |
London | 14,761 | 11,660 | 14,925 | 17,413 | 16,476 | 19,455 | 12,699 | 11,376 | 11,230 | 13,410 | 14.340 | ... | 12,696 | 164.1 |
England | 82,692 | 72,587 | 97,352 | 91,380 | 100,497 | 103,801 | 91,743 | 70,402 | 88,480 | No return published. | 1862 to 71 | 1862 to 71 | No return published. | |
90.838 | 186.36 |