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.
Table shewing the Annual Birth and Death Rates, Death Rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths for the Year 1889, and 10 Years preceding.
In the year. | Birth Rate per 1,000 of the population. | Corrected Death rate per 1,000 of the Population | Deaths of children under 1year: per 1,000 of Registered births | Deaths of children under 1year: per 1,000 of Total Deaths | Daths of Children under 5 years: per 1,000 of Totslr Deaths. | Deaths in Public Institution; per 1,000 of total deaths. |
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1889 | 35.0 | 22.7 | 159 | 246 | 427 | 342 |
1888 | 35.5 | 24.6 | 207 | 299 | 494 | 218 |
1887 | 35.0 | 24.7 | 176 | 250 | 431 | 240 |
1886 | 34.4 | 25.0 | 178 | 244 | 442 | 170 |
1885 | 36.0 | 25.4 | 162 | 230 | 420 | 252 |
1884 | 37.0 | 23.3 | 139 | 224 | 425 | 181 |
1883 | 38.0 | 25.0 | 165 | 250 | 464 | 166 |
1882 | 38.8 | 25.0 | 150 | 240 | 470 | 161 |
1881 | 37.0 | 24.3 | 148 | 232 | 417 | 180 |
1880 | 38.0 | 26.2 | 170 | 240 | 475 | 162 |
1879 | 36.0 | 25.9 | 170 | 250 | 457 | 160 |
Average of 10 yrs. 1879-88. | 36.5 | 24.9 | 166 | 245 | 449 | 189 |