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 II.
Shewing the Annual Birth Rate, Rate of Mortality, Death Rates among Children, and Deaths in Public Institutions, for the year 1888, and 10 years preceding.
In the year | Birth Rate per 1,000 of the Population. | Corrected Death Tate Per 1,000 of the Population | Deaths of Children under 1 year . par 1 ,000 of Registered Births. | Deaths of Children under 1 year. per l.000 of Total Deaths | Deaths of Children under 5 years: per 1,000 of Total Deaths | Deaths In Public Iustitutions; per l.000 of Total Death*. |
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1888 | 35.5 | 24.6 | 207. | 299. | 494. | 218. |
1887 | 35.0 | 24.7 | 176 | 250 | 431 | 240 |
1846 | 34.4 | 25.0 | 178 | 244 | 442 | 170 |
1885 | 36.0 | 25.4 | 162 | 230 | 420 | 252 |
1834 | 37.0 | 23.3 | 139 | 224 | 425 | 181 |
1883 | 38.0 | 25.0 | 165 | 250 | 464 | 160 |
1882 | 38.8 | 25.0 | 150 | 240 | 470 | 161 |
1881 | 37.0 | 24.3 | 148 | 232 | 417 | 180 |
1880 | 28.0 | 26.2 | 170 | 240 | 475 | 162 |
1879 | 36.0 | 25.9 | 170 | 250 | 457 | 160 |
1878 | 35.0 | 24.7 | 160 | 250 | 450 | 171 |
Average of 10 yes. 1878-87. | 36.5 | 24.9 | 161 | 241 | 445 | 184 |