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 1895
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TABLE 11 A. Sickness-rates (based on notifications) calculated on estimated numbers living in each Age-Group. Corrected for duplicates only.
Age-groups. | MALES. | FEMALES. | ||||||||||||
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Smallpox. | Diphtheria and Mem. Croup. | Erysipelas. | Fevers. | Totals. | Smallpox. | Diphtheria and Mem. Croup. | Erysipelas. | Fevers. | Totals. | |||||
Scarlet. | Enteric & Continued. | Scarlet. | Enteric & Continued | Puerperal, | ||||||||||
3.9 | 1.5 | 3.9 | ... | 9.4 | ... | ... | ... | 0.6 | ... | ... | 0.6 | |||
1-5 | ... | 8.4 | 0.4 | 13.3 | 0.2 | 22.5 | ... | 6.3 | o.1 | 10.6 | ... | ... | 17.1 | |
5-5 | ... | 4.3 | 0.4 | 10.3 | 0.7 | 15.8 | * | 5.3 | 10.7 | 0.1 | ... | 16.9 | ||
0.4 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 4.4 | * | 1.1 | * | ||||||||
25-6£†§ | * | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 2.8 | * | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 2.7 | ||||
... | ... | 3.0 | ... | 3.0 | ||||||||||
... | 7.4 | 0.1 | 19.6 | ... | 4.8 | 8.3 | ... | |||||||
5 & over†§ | o.1 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.7 | * | 1.5 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 5.7 | |||||
0.7 | 3.8 | * | 1.8 | 0.9 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 6.3 | |||||||
0.2 | 0.8 | 7.9 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 2.1 | * | ||||||||
ST. MARY. | ... | 4.5 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.8 | ... | ... | |||||
... | 8.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 23.8 | ... | 0.2 | 13.0 | ... | ... | 21.6 | ||||
... | 4.8 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 16.9 | 0.1 | 6.6 | 0.6 | ... | 19.4 | |||||
1.1 | ... | 0.7 | * | |||||||||||
* | 0.5 | * | 0.2 | |||||||||||
... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3.9 | ... | ... | |||||||
0-5 | ... | 0.8 | 12.2 | 0.2 | 20.9 | ... | 6.4 | ... | ... | 16.9 | ||||
o.1 | 6.6 | * | o.1 | 6.5 | ||||||||||
4.2 | 8.4 | * | o.1 | 7.5 | ||||||||||
0.2 | 2.6 | * | ||||||||||||
ST. JOHN. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
... | ... | ... | 16.1 | ... | ... | 4.5 | ... | ... | 5.8 | |||||
... | 10.7 | |||||||||||||
... | 1.9 | 3.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | ||||||||||
25-65§ | ... | 0.7 | ||||||||||||
... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ||||||||||
... | 6.4 | ... | ... | ••• | ... | 3.5 | 4.5 | |||||||
... | 3.6 | * | 0.4 | 0.4 | 3.7 | |||||||||
... | 0.2 | 2.4 | 0.7 | * | ||||||||||
* | 2.3 | 0.8 | 5.6 | * |
* Indicates a rate below 0'1 per 1,000 persons.
† The total rates in these groups include one case (male) Relapsing Fever from
St. Mary's District.
§ The total rates include one case (female) Cholera from St. John's District.
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