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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 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TABLE A.
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TABLE OF DEATHS during the Year 1889, in the Urban Sanitary District of Limehouse; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities, and showing also the Population of such Localities, and the Births therein during the year.
| Name of the Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public in situation being shown as separate loacalities. | Population At All Ages. | Registered Births. | Mortality From All Causes, At Subjoined Ages. | Mortality From Subjoined Causes, Distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Census 1881 | Estimated to middle of 1889. | At All Ages | Under 1 Year. | 1 and Under 5. | 5 and Under 15. | 15 and Under 25. | 25 and Under 60. | 60 and upwards. | 12 | Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlatima. | Diptheria. | Croup (not "spasmodic"). | Whooping Cough. | Continued Fever. | Diptheria and Dysentery. | Cholera. | Rheumatic Fever. | Erysipelas. | Pyæmia. | Perpetual Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis Pneumonia and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | ||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Other or Doubtful. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 |
| Limehouse... | 32041 | 33498 | 1186 | 539 | 170 | 100 | 30 | 30 | 131 | 78 | Under 5. | ... | 15 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 14 | ... | ... | ... | 21 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 4 | 62 | ... | 9 | 118 |
| 5 upwards | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | 5 | ... | 44 | 76 | 34 | 12 | 88 | |||||||||||
| Ratcliff | 16107 | 16107 | 481 | 282 | 76 | 64 | 14 | 9 | 73 | 46 | Under 5 | ... | 3 | 3 | 7 | ... | 5 | ... | 1 | ... | 3 | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 2 | 38 | ... | 5 | 71 |
| 5 upwards | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ... | 14 | 42 | 10 | 6 | 59 | |||||||||||
| Shadwell and WapPing | 10395 | 10395 | 442 | 190 | 51 | 32 | 15 | 14 | 59 | 19 | Under 5. | ... | 1 | ... | 4 | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 2 | 13 | ... | 3 | 65 |
| 5 upwds. | ... | ... | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 15 | 8 | 9 | 21 | 51 | |||||||||||
| East London Children's Hospital | ... | ... | ... | 245 | 109 | 95 | 39 | 2 | ... | ... | Under 5. | ... | 1 | ... | 9 | 1 | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 39 | ... | ... | 2 | 1 | ... | ... | 3 | 40 | 1 | 3 | 86 |
| 5 upwds. | ... | ... | ... | 6 | ... | ... | ... | 4 | ... | ... | ... | 3 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 58543 | 60000 | 2109 | 1256 | 406 | 291 | 98 | 55 | 263 | 143 | under 5 | ... | 20 | 16 | 26 | 10 | 21 | ... | 2 | ... | 65 | ... | ... | 2 | 4 | ... | ... | 11 | 153 | 1 | 20 | 340 |
| 5 upwda. | ... | ... | 3 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 7 | ... | 80 | 130 | 56 | 41 | 208 | |||||||||||
| The subjoined numbers have also to lie taken into account in judging of the mortality of the District. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths occuring outside the division or district among persons belonging thereto | 287 | 11 | 25 | 14 | 18 | 121 | 98 | Under 5. | ... | ... | 6 | 13 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 4 | ... | 3 | 7 | |||
| 5 upwrds. | ... | ... | 2 | 4 | 1 | ... | ... | 3 | ... | 6 | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 35 | 53 | 24 | 13 | 108 | |||||||||||
| Under 5 | ... | 1 | ... | 7 | l | ... | ... | ... | ... | 27 | ... | ... | 2 | 1 | ... | ... | 13 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 69 | |||||||||||