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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

Hammersmith 1898

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1898

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DEATHS FROM THE 9 PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The total number of deaths of parishioners that were
registered from the nine principal zymotic diseases was
420, against 284 in the previous year. The deaths of
parishioners last year from these diseases were equal to
22.3 per cent. of the total deaths of parishioners
registered, and were at the rate of 0.39 deaths per 100
persons living. The deaths from the 9 principal zymotic
diseases in the whole of London were equal to 15.0 per
cent. of the total deaths registered, and were at the rate of
0.28 deaths per 100 persons living. These deaths were
therefore, as compared with the total deaths of parishioners
registered 7.3 per cent. greater in this Parish than in
London, and as compared with the population 0.11
greater in this Parish than in London. The considerable
increase in the number of these deaths in this Parish was
almost entirely due to Measles.

Table: TABLE III. The following table shows the deaths of parishioners registered from the 9 principal zymotic diseases which occurred in the 10 years 1889 to 1898.

TABLE III. The following table shows the deaths of parishioners registered from the 9 principal zymotic diseases which occurred in the 10 years 1889 to 1898.

yeak.Smallpox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria and Membraneous Croup.Whooping Cough.Typhus Fever.Enteric Fever.Simple Continued Fever.Diarrhœa and Cholera.Total.
18890231646015253192
1890095165075014098348
18910109725005374223
189202211715304381345
189301 43256510152126286
1894072105355015067272
18951281447420140104250
18960582052601141125331
189704103028080204284
189801282124360120199420