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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 IV.Showing Mortality from certain classesofDiseases, and proportionsto Population, and to 1000 Deaths, 1874.

TABLE IV.

Showing Mortality from certain classesofDiseases, and proportionsto Population, and to 1000 Deaths, 1874.

Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of Population.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths.
1. Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases1142.03135.40
2. Pulmonary Diseases {Other than Phthisis)1572.80186.46
3. Tubercular Diseases1242.21147.26
4. Wasting Diseases of Infants741.3287.88
5. Convulsive Diseases of Infants571.0167.70

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* 13 deaths of Non-Parishioners in Public Institutions within the Subdistrict
of Lewisham have been registered, and are deducted from the Mortality
of Lewisham Village.
† Whilst 7 deaths of Inhabitants of the Hamlet of Penge have occurred
out of the District, in the Croydon Union Workhouse Infirmary, and are added
to the Mortality of Penge.