London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lewisham 1904

Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham and report of the Public Analyst for the year 1904

This page requires JavaScript

Table: Table 17.Death Rates from principalZymotic DiseasesandPhthisis,andInfantile Mortalityin the Borough and its Divisions, in the County of London, and in the76Great Towns, for the Year1904.

Table 17.

Death Rates from principalZymotic DiseasesandPhthisis,andInfantile Mortalityin the Borough and its Divisions, in the County of London, and in the76Great Towns, for the Year1904.

Disease.Lee Division.Lewisham Division.Sydenham and Forest Hill Div.Whole BoroughCounty of London.76 Great Towns.
Small.Pox—---0.010.01
Measles—0.090.350.160.490.47
Scarlet Fever0.050.070.020.050.080.12
Diphtheria0.100.090.090.090.160.19
Whooping Cough0.150.420.070.270.320.40
Enteric Fever0.05—0.020.010.060.10
Epidemic Diarrœha and Enteritis0.260.950.770.801.021.20
Dysentery0.05—0.020.01
Total Zymotic Death Rates0.671.621.351.402.132.49
Infantile Mortality Rate ..85135117122144160
Phthisis Death Rate0.720.920.750.841.62—
Comparative Rates for other Boroughs will be found in Table 12.