Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year ending 25th March, 1898
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The following table will show the number of notifications of
Diphtheria that have been received by me since 1890, and also the
number of deaths that have occurred from that disease during
each year since :—
TABLE A.
Notified cases of Diphtheria. | Deaths from Diphtheria. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
1890 | 53 | 1890 | 26 | |
1891 | 48 | 1891 | 21 | |
1892 | 43 | 1892 | 9 | |
1893 | 170 | 1893 | 51 | |
1894 | 139 | 1894 | 38 | |
1895 | 215 | 1895 | 41 | |
1896 | 400 | 1896 | 59 | |
1897 | 128 | 1897 | 16 |
In both England and London the mortality from Diphtheria
was less in the decade 1871-80, than in 1861-70, but in the
decade 1881-90 it was greater than in the second, and in London,
had increased to a higher ratio even than in the first decade.
Comparing London to England, in the first decade the ratio
of mortality was about 5 per cent. lower than that of England,
in the second decade about equal, and in the third about 6 per
cent. higher.
It is strange that whilst formerly it was more prevalent in the
rural districts it now appears to affect the urban most.