Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the District for the year 1894
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Shewing the Death-rate per 1000 persons living, from the undermentioned causes in London, the Eastern Districts of London, and Mile End Old Town, 1891 to 1894.
LONDON. | EASTERN DISTRICTS. | MILE END OLD TOWN. | |||||||||||||
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1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | Average for the Four Years. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | Average for the Four Years. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | Averagefor the Four Tears. | |
Principal Zymotic Diseases | 2.8 | 3.0 | 2. 6 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.5 | |
Small Pox | .06 | .04 | .02 | .02 | .01 | .06 | .03 | .02 | .07 | .03 | |||||
Measles | .4 | .7 | .3 | .7 | .5 | .5 | .8 | .5 | 1.1 | .7 | .3 | .6 | .3 | 1.7 | |
Scarlet Fever | .1 | .3 | .2 | .6 | .1 | .4 | .4 | .2 | .2 | .1 | .3 | .3 | .3 | .2 | |
Diphtheria | .3 | .4 | .7 | .6 | .5 | .5 | .5 | .9 | 7 | .6 | .3 | .7 | .7 | .7 | .6 |
Whooping Cough | .6 | .5 | .5 | .4 | .5 | .7 | .9 | .9 | .6 | .7 | .4 | 1.0 | .7 | .6 | .6 |
Typhoid Fever | .1 | .09 | .1 | .1 | .4 | .1 | .1 | .2 | .1 | .1 | .1 | .1 | .2 | .1 | .1 |
Diarrhœa | .5 | .5 | .7 | .4 | .5 | .6 | .6 | 1.1 | .5 | .7 | .5 | .6 | 1.1 | .6 | .6 |
Deaths from all causes | 21.0 | 20.3 | 20.8 | 17.4 | 19.8 | 23.1 | 24.3 | 23.0 | 21.8 | 23.0 | 21.2 | 23.0 | 21.1 | 22.0 | |
Deaths under one year to 1000 Births registered | 154 | 154 | 164 | 142 | 153.5 | 163 | 166 | 181 | 161 | 167.7 | 149 | 153 | 150 | 155 | 151.9 |