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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

St Martin-in-the-Fields 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]

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Table: TABLEawing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases in the ten years,1873to1882,and in the year1883.

TABLE

awing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases in the ten years,1873to1882,and in the year1883.

DISEASE.1873187418751876187718781879188018811882Annual average of 10 years, 1873-1882.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 deaths in 10 years, 1873-1882.1883Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 deaths in 1883.
Smallpox.........1............1...0.20.4...-
Measles11825...355775.811.82766.1
Scarlet Fever214134...514121237.916.0512.2
Diphtheria212...1847,43.97.9512.2
Whooping Cough15101311512122071311.823.924.9
Fever1197487751657.916.0614.7
Diarrhœa1211191881271710712.124.51126.9
Total5353564326405363604949.6100.556137.0