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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

Paddington 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Table: TABLE V.TABLE showing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases in the Ten Years1881 to 1890, and in the year 1891.

TABLE V.

TABLE showing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases in the Ten Years

1881 to 1890, and in the year 1891.

DISEASE1881.1882.1883.1884.1885.1886.1887.1888.1889.1890.Annual Average of 10 years, 1881—1890.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 10 years, 1881—1890.1891.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1891.
Smallpox7000110010021.0——
Measles207137316366336611774826.073.3
Scarlet Fever232239208113514861910.273.3
Diphtheria141537282528277539453317.92712.8
Whooping Cough537246485955197426825329.26731.8
Fever23201617211710151611179.2178.1
Diarrhœa664148646592633863626032.97636.0
TOTALS.Paddington206241223208252269187283163283232126.820195.3
London13,81113,55310,80113,62911,26111,12112,68410,8039,70912,27911,965146.19,675107.2
England & Wales58,23969,73458,97271,76257,72662,85964,67650,68461,02759,69861,53811753,22191