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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

Kensington 1899

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1899

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Table: TABLE V. Showing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class in the ten years 1889-98, and in the year 1899.

TABLE V. Showing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class in the ten years 1889-98, and in the year 1899.

Diseases.1889.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.1898.Annual Average of ten years 1889-98.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths from all causes in ten years 1889-98.Deaths in 1899.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths from all causes in 1899.
Small-pox............9...............0.90.3......
Measles141402910918108331733312077.727.8247.9
Scarlet Fever2826163651222739292329.710.6103.3
Diphtheria11135283183758972822663.222.64213.9
Whooping-cough2693846365633999195260.121.55919.5
Typhus Fever...........................20.20.2......
Enteric Fever1915241517211515211217.46.2237.6
Simp. Continued Fever......12...3111...090.3......
Diarrhœa7178917798561186112511288.731.710133.4
TOTALS.Kensington.269387273333341346322460310347338.8121.225985.6
London.97091227996751198313223115441154414100115251256511815139.211228125
England & Wales6102759698532215603273499527716490166936670516971462485113.969820120