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 Chiswick]
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Table showing Births and Birth Rates; Deaths and Death Rates; Deaths from Zymotic Diseases, also Death Rates during the past ten years.
1901 | 1902 | 903 . | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | Average of last 10 years | |
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Births during the year | 844 | 870 | 907 | 889 | 947 | 852 | 915 | 898 | 877 | 943 | 894.2 |
Birth rate per thousand | 28.12 | 28.42 | 28.90 | 27.62 | 28.55 | 25.15 | 25.43 | 24.68 | 23.66 | 25.05 | 26.55 |
Deaths from all causes | 352 | 394 | 328 | 462 | 510 | 441 | 414 | 443 | 535 | 400 | 427.9 |
Death rate per thousand | 73 | 12.51 | 10.46 | 1435 | 15.37 | 13.01 | 11.50 | 12.17 | 14.43 | 10.62 | 12.61 |
Deaths from Small Pox | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
„ Measles | 1 | 22 | 2 | 39 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 101 |
„ Scarlet Fever | i | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
„ Diphtheria | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 39 |
Whooping Cough | 4 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 7.1 |
„ Enteric & other Fevers | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.6 |
„ Diarrhoea | 22 | 13 | 9 | '5 | 36 | 32 | 20 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 17.1 |
„ Enteritis | 22 | 13 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 10.4 |
„ Croup | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 |
„ Erysipelas | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2.1 |
„ Puerperal Fever | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | i | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 |
„ principal Zymotic diseases | 69 | 67 | 46 | 99 | 58 | 55 | 59 . | 37 | 49 | 25 | 55.4 |
Death rate from ditto | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 307 | 1.7 | 1.62 | 1.64 | 1.01 | 1.32 | .66 | 1.61 |