Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Thirty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington
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In the annexed Table a complete statement of the deaths from the
Infectious Diseases during the years 1881-93 and in 1894 is given :—
Table XI.
Showing the Deaths from the Principal Zymotic Diseases in 1894,and for the previous Thirteen Years.
Estimated Population in the Middle of the Year. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric (Typhoid Fever) | Diarrhœa. | Total. | Death-Bate per 1,000 Population. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1881 | 283,721 | 66 | 161 | 116 | 42 | 17 2 | ... | 79 | 216 | 852 | 3.0 |
1882 | 287,191 | 11 | 153 | 142 | 54 | 299 | ... | 77 | 149 | 885 | 3.0 |
1883 | 290,711 | 1 | 165 | 95 | 70 | 119 | ... | 86 | 162 | 698 | 2.4 |
1884 | 294,267 | 36 | 125 | 57 | 114 | 268 | ... | 83 | 266 | 949 | 3.2 |
1885 | 297,867 | 38 | 289 | 29 | 138 | 200 | ... | 55 | 191 | 940 | 3.1 |
1886 | 301,512 | ... | 64 | 25 | 54 | 205 | ... | 48 | 307 | 703 | 2.3 |
1887 | 305,112 | 2 | 331 | 50 | 27 | 238 | ... | 39 | 291 | 978 | 3.2 |
1888 | 308,936 | ... | 151 | 50 | 35 | 230 | ... | 49 | 146 | 661 | 2.1 |
1889 | 312,713 | ... | 180 | 32 | 44 | 112 | ... | 56 | 170 | 595 | 1.9 |
1890 | 316,543 | ... | 185 | 29 | 47 | 200 | ... | 35 | 169 | 665 | 2.1 |
Average for 10 yrs. | 300,132 | 15 | 180 | 62 | 62 | 204 | ... | 61 | 207 | 793 | 2.64 |
1891 | 320,418 | ... | 205 | 28 | 94 | 235 | ... | 25 | 146 | 733 | 2.28 |
1892 | 324,339 | 2 | 169 | 52 | 130 | 149 | ... | 38 | 158 | 698 | 2.32 |
1893 | 328,303 | 2 | 119 | 94 | 189 | 181 | 1 | 48 | 237 | 871 | 2.65 |
1894 | 331,901 | 3 | 199 | 69 | 208 | 188 | ... | 36 | 93 | 796 | 2.39 |
Note.—The figures in 1892 and following years include the deaths in the M. A. B.'s Hospitals.