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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
Bermondsey 1880
Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of Bermondsey for the year 1880
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TABLE II.
Deaths from the Principal Zymotic Diseases during 1880, and Five previous
Years.
1880.
Five Previous Years.
ZYMOTIC
DISEASES.
3rd
Quarter,
4th
Quarter.
Total.
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
Average.
1st.
Quarter.
2nd
Quarter.
0
2
0
1
3
0
9
39
8
8
12·8
Smallpox
75
1
1
6
46
46
64·8
101
46
Measles
56
38
102
130
97
43
78·6
Scarlet Fever
27
21
34
20
102
21
2
13
9
Diphtheria
3
2
16
3
5
10·4
19
6
Whooping Cough
63
3
6
94
111
75
114·4
22
63
225
98
5
21
20·6
Fever
9
27
21
20
9
4
25
16
102
73
Diarrhœa
5
125
112
78
134
76·6
3
15
45
0
3
Cholera
1
1
2
1·2
0
1
0
0
0
110
61
91
411
351
284
542
344
379·4
149
452
TABLE II. Deaths from the Principal Zymotic Diseases during 1880, and Five previous Years.
| ZYMOTIC DISEASES. | 1880. | Five Previous Years. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st. Quarter. | 2nd Quarter. | 3rd Quarter, | 4th Quarter. | Total. | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | Average. | |
| Smallpox | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 39 | 8 | 8 | 12·8 |
| Measles | 1 | 1 | 6 | 38 | 46 | 101 | 46 | 46 | 75 | 56 | 64·8 |
| Scarlet Fever | 34 | 20 | 27 | 21 | 102 | 130 | 97 | 21 | 43 | 102 | 78·6 |
| Diphtheria | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 10·4 |
| Whooping Cough | 63 | 22 | 3 | 6 | 94 | 111 | 63 | 75 | 225 | 98 | 114·4 |
| Fever | 5 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 27 | 21 | 20 | 21 | 25 | 16 | 20·6 |
| Diarrhœa | 5 | 3 | 102 | 15 | 125 | 73 | 112 | 78 | 134 | 45 | 76·6 |
| Cholera | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1·2 |
| 110 | 61 | 149 | 91 | 411 | 452 | 351 | 284 | 542 | 344 | 379·4 | |