Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year ending December 31st, 1896
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3. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Tuberculosis, Tabes and Tubercular
Meningitis.
1. Includes Small-pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria and Membranous
Croup, Whooping Cough, Typhus, Enteric and Simple Continued
Fevers and Diarrhæa.
TABLE E. Showing the number of Deaths at All Ages in 1896 from certain Groups of Diseases, and proportions of 1,000 of Population, and to 1,000 Deaths from all causes,
Total Deaths. | Deaths per 1,000 of population at all ages. | Deaths per 1000 of Total Deaths at all ages. | |
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1. Principal Zymotic Diseases | 422 | 3.6 | 205 |
2. Pulmonary Diseases | 350 | 2.9 | 170 |
3. Tubercular Diseases | 303 | 2.6 | 147 |