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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: TABLE IV.Showing the Number of Deaths at all ages in 1889, from certain groups of I 'Disenses, and proportions to 1,000 of Population, and to 1,000 Deaths from all causes ; also the Number of Deaths of Infants under one year of age From other groups of Dianases, and projections to 1,000 Buths and to 1,000Deaths from allcauses under one year.

TABLE IV.

Showing the Number of Deaths at all ages in 1889, from certain groups of I 'Disenses, and proportions to 1,000 of Population, and to 1,000 Deaths from all causes ; also the Number of Deaths of Infants under one year of age From other groups of Dianases, and projections to 1,000 Buths and to 1,000Deaths from all

causes under one year.

Division I. (Adults).Total deathsDeaths per l.ooo of Population, at all agesDeaths per 1,ooo of Total Deaths at all ages.
1. Principal Zymotic Diseases17329127
2. pulmonary diseases3505.8257
3. Principal Tubercular Diseases1582.6116
Division II. (Infantsunder One Year).Total DeathsDeaths per 1,000 of BirthsDeaths per l,000 of Total Deaths under l yr.
1. Waiting Diseases9645281
5. Convulsions Diseases0.30179