Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1904
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TABLE P. Shewing the number of Deaths from the 7 principal zymotic diseases in the old Parish of Lambeth and in London, in the ten years 1891—1900, and in the new Borough of Lambeth and in London during 1904.
Disease. | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | Annual Average of ten years 1891—1900 (old Parish). | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Total Deaths in 10 years. | Total Deaths in 1904. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Total Deaths 1904. | |
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Smallpox | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1.1 | 0.2 | - | - | |
Diphtheria (and Membranous Croup) | 78 | 127 | 172 | 138 | 103 | 140 | 145 | 115 | 159 | 103 | 127.6 | 23.6 | 34 | 6.9 | |
Scarlet Fever | 46 | 76 | 69 | 64 | 53 | 63 | 42 | 30 | 25 | 20 | 53.6 | 9.9 | 16 | 3.3 | |
Fever | Typhus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 0.4 | 0.07 | — | — |
Typhoid or Enteric | 28 | 22 | 36 | 46 | 26 | 24 | 26 | 35 | 50 | 54 | 32.8 | 6.1 | 11 | 2.3 | |
Simple Continued | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 2.2 | 0.4 | — | — | |
Measles | 128 | 187 | 113 | 182 | 151 | 185 | 139 | 133 | 169 | 69 | 144.4 | 26.7 | 164 | 34.4 | |
Whooping Cough | 239 | 135 | 151 | 110 | 132 | 140 | 144 | 159 | 130 | 97 | 144.4 | 26.7 | 109 | 22.3 | |
Diarrhœa | 165 | 155 | 197 | 139 | 263 | 152 | 238 | 254 | 249 | 153 | 188.4 | 34.8 | 269 | 55.1 | |
Borough of Lambeth | 692 | 705 | 748 | 680 | 732 | 708 | 734 | 726 | 782 | 497 | 694.9 | 128.6 | 603 | 123.6 | |
County of London | 9675 | 11983 | 13223 | 11544 | 11467 | 14009 | 11525 | 12482 | 11147 | 10136 | 11575.3 | 130.8 | 9906 | 132.9 |