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 West Ham Borough]
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of the Largest English Towns during the Year 1895.
Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping-cough. | Fever. | — Diarrhoea. | Deaths of Children under one year of age to 1,000 Births. | Rate per cent, of Uncertified Deaths. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
29,957 | 120 | 5,623 | 1,883 | 3,735 | 3,888 | 2,115 | 12,593 | 182 | 1.5 |
18,413 | 65 | 2,991 | 1,054 | 1,419 | 2,405 | 1,486 | 8,993 | 193 | 2.2 |
11,544 | 55 | 2,632 | 829 | 2,316 | 1,483 | 629 | 3,600 | 166 | 0.7 |
951 | 10 | 219 | 45 | 196 | 51 | 65 | 346 | 168 | 2.7 |
151 | - | 19 | 4 | 22 | 28 | 14 | 64 | 134 | __ |
209 | — | 26 | 5 | 18 | 42 | 14 | 104 | 164 | 1.6 |
371 | — | 39 | 7 | 19 | 63 | 35 | 208 | 175 | 0.8 |
171 | — | 77 | 2 | 10 | 28 | 7 | 47 | 178 | 0.3 1.1 |
295 | — | 8 | 16 | 34 | 45 | 21 | 171 | 143 | 1.30 |
377 | — | 47 | 8 | 56 | 52 | 15 | 199 | 179 | 1.l |
163 | — | 46 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 20 | 60 | 178 | 1.0 |
362 | — | 41 | 33 | 84 | 53 | 17 | 134 | 218 | 0.6 |
1,321 | 8 | 136 | 127 | 183 | 117 | 81 | 615 | 203 | 4.8 |
291 | — | 27 | 10 | 19 | 53 | 26 | 156 | 190 | 1.6 |
577 | — | 32 | 16 | 35 | 85 | 39 | 37o | 203 | 3.1 |
505 | — | 1 | 51 O | 10 | 31 | 54 | 358 | 190 | 1.3 |
195 | 8 | 7 | o | 0 | 21 | 10 | 127 | 161 | 0.5 |
252 | — | 3 | l6 | 45 | 4 | 42 | 105 | 174 | 1.1 |
2,016 | 13 | 359 | x44 | 120 | 372 | 187 | 821 | 210 | 3.0 |
530 | 1 | 124 | 23 | 16 | 07 | 53 | 246 | 212 | 0.3 |
1,950 | 2 | 509 | 169 | 108 | 250 | 99 | 813 | 203 | 1.2 |
1,031 | — | 213 | 97 | 62 | 133 | 88 | 438 | 231 | 2.3 |
393 | 22 | 98 | 15 | 26 | 54 | 26 | 152 | 190 | 3.2 |
385 | — | 25 | 22 | 43 | 54 | 30 | 211 | 242 | 1.9 |
716 | — | 323 | 8 | 9 | 75 | 29 | 272 | 236 | 2.8 |
423 | 1 | 47 | 4 | 8 | 50 | 22 | 291 | 248 | 3.6 |
119 | — | 12 | x9 | 15 | 20 | 6 | 47 | 1548 | 3.3 |
122 | — | 9 | 5 | 14 | 23 | 16 | 55 | 8158 | 2.0 |
566 | — | 18 | 25 | 20 | 100 | 40 | 357 | 203 | 1.0 |
1,062 | — | 134 | 5i | 65 | 112 | 82 | 618 | 191 | 0.6 |
1,085 | — | 187 | 33 | 52 | 71 | 97 | 645 | 197 | 3.1 |
718 | — | 19 | 39 | 37 | 44 | 48 | 531 | 205 | 4.0 |
481 | — | 9 | 11 | 8 | 63 | 132 | 258 | l86 | 1.2 |
251 | — | 28 | 14 | 19 | 62 | 15 | 113 | 186 | |
520 | — | 141 | 22 | 52 | 59 | 48 | 198 | 186 | 1.1 |