Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1894
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TABLE 16.— Birth and Death-rates (per 1,000 living) in the Groups of Sanitary Areas, with average annual rates for Nine Years, 1885—1893. (From Registrar-General's Annual Summary.) Hospital cases distributed.
Birth-rate. | Death-rates from—, per 1,000 living. | Death-rates of infants under one year, per 1,000 births. | |||||||||||||
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All Causes. | Principal Zymotio Diseases. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple Continued and undefined Fever. | Diarrhœa. | Phthisis. | ||||
Registration London | 1894 | 30.1 | 17.4 | 2.64 | 0.02 | 0.76 | 0.22 | 0.61 | 0.48 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.41 | 1.69 | 143 |
1885-93 | 32.0 | 20.1 | 2.75 | 0.04 | 0.61 | 0.24 | 0.36 | 0.64 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.01 | 0.71 | ? | 154 | |
PADDINGTON | 1894 | 23.3 | 15.0 | 2.35 | 0.02 | 0.54 | 0.10 | 0.75 | 0.36 | - | 0.18 | - | 0.37 | 1.20 | 135 |
1885-93 | 25.1 | 16.8 | 2.09 | 0.01 | 0.41 | 0.12 | 0.35 | 0.45 | 0.00 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.59 | 1.49 | 143 | |
West Group | 1894 | 25.4 | 16.2 | 2.40 | 0.01 | 0.74 | 0.16 | 0.58 | 0.41 | - | 0.13 | 0.01 | 0.36 | 1.55 | 145 |
1885-93 | 27.3 | 18.6 | 2.39 | 0.02 | 0.51 | 0.18 | 0.34 | 0.54 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 0.01 | 0.67 | ? | 157 | |
North Group | 1894 | 28.5 | 26.2 | 2.32 | 0.04 | 0.59 | 0.23 | 0.55 | 0.44 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.33 | 1.60 | 131 |
1885-93 | 30.3 | 18.8 | 2.50 | 0.04 | 0.56 | 0.19 | 0.34 | 0.58 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.01 | 0.64 | ? | 146 | |
Central Group | 1894 | 29.3 | 20.6 | 2.21 | 0.01 | 0.52 | 0.13 | 0.42 | 0.57 | - | 0.17 | - | 0.39 | 2.58 | 147 |
1885-93 | 30.0 | 24.5 | 2.88 | 0.04 | 0.72 | 0.25 | 0.35 | 0.61 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.01 | 0.75 | ? | 169 | |
East Group | l894 | 36.4 | 20.9 | 3.52 | 0.03 | 1.11 | 0.29 | 0.77 | 0.61 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.56 | 2.00 | 158 |
1885-93 | 37.4 | 23.2 | 3.58 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.36 | 0.45 | 0.80 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 0.01 | 0.91 | ? | 163 | |
South Group | 1894 | 30.7 | 16.7 | 2.64 | 0.01 | 0.76 | 0.23 | 0.62 | 0.47 | 0.00 | 0.13 | 0.00 | 0.42 | 1.54 | 139 |
1885-93 | 33.1 | 19.4 | 2.68 | 0.05 | 0.57 | 0.24 | 0.33 | 0.86 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 0.01 | 0.70 | ? | 149 | |
Note.— In this Table 0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.005; when no deaths occurred, — is inserted. |