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.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 10 Years, 1877 to 1886, and in the Year 1887.
Disease. | 1877 | 1878 | 1870 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | 1884 | 1886 | 1886 | Annual Average of 10 years 1877—1886 | Proprtion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years. 1877-1886. | 1887 | Proportion of Deaths. to 1,000 Deathsin 1887. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Smoll Pox | 89 | 63 | 2 | 20 | 42 | 17 | 6 | 29 | 22 | 0 | 29.0 | 19.6 | 0 | 0 |
Measles | 71 | 31 | 49 | 37 | 52 | 25 | 57 | 7 | 87 | 39 | 45.6 | 30.7 | 58 | 40.0 |
???arlet Fever | 20 | 16 | 71 | 112 | 22 | 66 | 84 | 74 | 32 | 23 | 61.9 | 35.0 | 27 | 18.6 |
Diphtheria | 6 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 20 | 7 | 9.4 | 63 | 10 | 6.9 |
Whooping Cough | 47 | 81 | 43 | 62 | 41 | 113 | 30 | 52 | 49 | 56 | 57.4 | 387 | 65 | 44.8 |
???Fever | 10 | 21 | 18 | 8 | 22 | 9 | 14 | 16 | 13 | 19 | 15 9 | 10.6 | 6 | 4.0 |
Driarrhœa | 66 | 64 | 44 | 56 | 55 | 42 | 45 | 53 | 42 | 80 | 547 | 36.7 | 67 | 16.2 |
Total | 317 | 286 | 238 | 303 | 242 | 275 | 254 | 235 | 265 | 224 | 263.8 | 177.6 | 233 | 160.5 |
London | 12365 | 14734 | 12256 | 13681 | 13811 | 13533 | 10801 | 13629 | 11261 | 11122 | 12719 | 153 | 12684 | 154 |