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 Limehouse]
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TABLE V.
Showing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 10 years, 1870 to 1879, and in the year 1880.
Disease. | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | Annual Average of 10 years. 1870-1879. | Proportion of Deaths to a 1000 Deaths in 10 years. 1870-1879. | 1880 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1880. |
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Smallpox | 34 | 110 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 89 | 63 | 2 | 32.2 | 23 | 20 | 13 |
Measles | 12 | 30 | 40 | 65 | 36 | 20 | 36 | 71 | 31 | 49 | 39.0 | 28 | 37 | 24 |
Scarlet Fever | 43 | 18 | 19 | 19 | 105 | 48 | 43 | 20 | 16 | 71 | 40.2 | 29 | 112 | 73 |
Diphtheria | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 4.8 | 3.4 | 8 | 5 |
Whooping Cough | 44 | 47 | 49 | 70 | 30 | 79 | 31 | 47 | 81 | 43 | 52.1 | 37 | 62 | 40 |
Fever | 21 | 18 | 13 | 19 | 26 | 15 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 18 | 19.5 | 14 | 17 | 11 |
Diarrhœa | 73 | 67 | 64 | 85 | 45 | 77 | 65 | 66 | 64 | 44 | 65.0 | 46.7 | 56 | 36 |
Total | 231 | 294 | 195 | 265 | 246 | 240 | 214 | 320 | 285 | 238 | 252.8 | 181.1 | 312 | 202 |
London | 16476 | 19455 | 12699 | 11385 | 11230 | 13411 | 12565 | 12365 | 14734 | 12256 | 13657 | 173 | 13681 | 168 |