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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

Lewisham 1893

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham

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Table: TABLE V.Showing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years, 1883 to 1893,and in the Year 1893.

TABLE V.

Showing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years, 1883 to 1893,

and in the Year 1893.

Disease.1883.1884.1885.1886.1887.1888.1889.1890.1891.1892.Annual Average of 10 yours, 1883—1892.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1883—1892.1893.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1893.
Smallpox01500000000.60.553.4
Measles244138540182134301523 .018.81912.9
Scarlet Fever188046794346.35.1128.8
Diphtheria161213251037511101715.612.95336.1
Whooping Cough2452393228762353296741.834 .4106.8
Fever-
Typhus...................................................................................
Enteric101216661165247.86.4106 .8
Simple continued.................................................................................
Diarrhœa2631376031253429244033.727.74228.6
Totals1181571481321161749813698147132. 4254.5151102.8
Totals—London10905139821186111212127201089697851209096751198311410138.412851140.5
Totals—England and Wales5897271762577266285964686506846102759698532215603259666110.873496128.0