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 V.
Table showing Births and Birth Rates; Deaths and Death Rates; Deaths from Zymotic Diseases, also Death Rates during the past ten years.
1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | Average of last 10 years | |
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Births during the year | 870 | 907 | 889 | 947 | 852 | 915 | 898 | 877 | 943 | 902 | 900 |
Birth rate per thousand | 28.42 | 28.90 | 27.62 | 28.55 | 25.15 | 25.43 | 24.68 | 23.66 | 25.05 | 23.24 | 26.07 |
Deaths from all causes | 394 | 328 | 462 | 510 | 441 | 414 | 443 | 535 | 400 | 478 | 440.5 |
Death rate per thousand | 12.51 | 10.46 | 14.35 | 15.37 | 13.01 | 11.50 | 12.17 | 14.43 | 10.62 | 12.30 | 12.67 |
Deaths from Small Pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ Measles | 22 | 2 | 39 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 7 | 10.7 |
„ Scarlet Fever | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2.1 |
„ Diphtheria | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4.2 |
„ Whooping Cough | 6 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 7.3 |
„ Enteric & other Fevers | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1.9 |
„ Diarrhœa | 13 | 9 | 15 | 36 | 32 | 20 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 16.3 |
„ Enteritis | 13 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 9.0 |
,, Croup | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.4 |
„ Erysipelas | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.9 |
„ Puerperal Fever | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.6 |
„ principal Zymotic diseases | 67 | 46 | 99 | 58 | 55 | 59 | 37 | 49 | 25 | 49 | 54.4 |
Death rate from ditto | 2.1 | 1.4 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 1.62 | 1.96 | 1.01 | 1.32 | .66 | 1.26 | 1.50 |