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.
Table shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zy m otic Diseases, in the 10 Years 1879 to 1888 and in the Year 1889.
Disease | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | I8.3 | 1884 | 1 885 | I1886 | 1887 | 1888 | Annual Aveage of 10 year 1879-1888 | 1889 | |
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Smallpox | 2 | 20 | 42 | 17 | 6 | 29 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138 | 0 | |
Measles | 48 | 37 | 62 | 25 | 57 | 7 | S7 | 39 | 58 | 8s | 49.9 | 20 | |
Scerlet fever | 71 | 112 | 22 | 65 | 84 | 71 | 32 | 23 | 27 | 23 | 53 .3 | 27 | |
Diphtheria | 11 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 4 | 20 | 7 | 10 | 23 | 113 | 41 | |
Wbonping Cough | 43 | 62 | 41 | 113 | 30 | 62 | 49 | 56 | 65 | 58 | 56.9 | 23 | |
Fever | Typhus | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .9 | 1 |
Enteric | 13 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 18 | 0 | 9 | 11.0 | 13 | |
Simpal Coatin'd | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 6 | 1 | |
Diarrhæa | 41 | 56 | 42 | 45 | 53 | 42 | 80 | 07 | 27 | 51 1 | 47 | ||
Total | 238 | 303 | 242 | 275 | 251 | 235 | 205 | 224 | 231 | 241 | 249.8 | 173 |