Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1895...
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TABLE M.
Shewing the number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic TABLE M Diseases in the ten years 1885—94, and in the year 1895.
Disease. | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | Total Deaths in 1895. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths 1895. | Annual Average of ten years 1885—94. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years. | |
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Smallpox | 85 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0.4 | 9.6 | 1.8 | |
Diphtheria | 69 | 61 | 106 | 103 | 155 | 74 | 78 | 127 | 172 | 138 | 103 | 18.5 | 108.3 | 20.4 | |
Scarlet Fever | 16 | 56 | 120 | 82 | 73 | 57 | 46 | 76 | 69 | 64 | 53 | 9.5 | 65.9 | 12.4 | |
Fever. | Typhus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.09 |
Typhoid or Enteric | 28 | 29 | 39 | 36 | 31 | 31 | 28 | 22 | 36 | 46 | 26 | 4.7 | 32.6 | 6.1 | |
Simple Continued | 3 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0.4 | 4.1 | 0.8 | |
Measles | 115 | 137 | 152 | 119 | 157 | 183 | 128 | 187 | 113 | 182 | 151 | 27.2 | 147.3 | 27.9 | |
Whooping Cough | 142 | 196 | 187 | 171 | 137 | 194 | 239 | 135 | 151 | 110 | 132 | 23.7 | 166.2 | 31.3 | |
Diarrhœa | 169 | 238 | 278 | 120 | 168 | 154 | 165 | 155 | 197 | 139 | 263 | 47.3 | 178.3 | 33.6 | |
Lambeth | 628 | 726 | 892 | 634 | 727 | 696 | 692 | 705 | 748 | 680 | 732 | 131.7 | 712.8 | 134.4 | |
London | 11241 | 11121 | 12684 | 10503 | 9709 | 12270 | 9675 | 11983 | 13223 | 11544 | 11467 | 134.7 | 11395.3 | 129.2 |