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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
Lewisham 1909
Annual report on the vital statistics and sanitary condition of the Borough of Lewisham and report of the Public Analyst for the year 1909
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Of the total 75 deaths in Lewisham from the principal
infectious diseases, Measles accounted for 7, Scarlet Fever 16,
Whooping Cough 20, Diphtheria 21, Enteric Fever 2, Epidemic
Diarrhoea 5, and Epidemic Enteritis 4. (See Table 16).
The death rates from the above diseases for the whole
Borough, the County of London, and the 76 Great Towns, have
been calculated and are set out in Table 17.