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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 1874

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: TABLE III.Deaths registered at several groups of ages from different causes during the year /874.

TABLE III.

Deaths registered at several groups of ages from different causes during the year /874.

Cause of Death. Classes.ages.Total.Males and Females.
0 to 11 to 22 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 to 9595 & upwards.Total under 5 years
M.f.
I. Zymotic Diseases74231610678641.........1131558669
II. Constitutional Diseases15665162729222014511271678186
III. Local Diseases77211712151430375564323...115377209168
IV. Developmental Diseases67641...22...1112411...771296663
V. Violent Deaths2......1123 ..233.........21495
Totals23556432938526967839361151334842451391
I. Zymotic Diseases.
Order 1.—Miasmatic.
Measles9871...........................24251312
Scarlet Fever1111.........1...............3642
Diptheria......22..........................2481
Croup1321...........................6743
Whooping Cough1411.................................25251510
Typhus Fever.........1..............................11...
Enteric or Typhoid......31...3...121.........31129
Simple Continued Fever.....................1..................11...
Erysipelas2...............111............2523