Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1913
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TABLE G.
Year. | All Causes. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Pyrexia. (Origin uncertain) | Diarrhœa. | |||||||||||
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No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | |
1903 | 2382 | 18.4 | 251 | 1.96 | – | – | 50 | .39 | 25 | .19 | 18 | .14 | 41 | .32 | 4 | .03 | 11 | .09 | – | – | 103 | .80 |
1904 | 2593 | 20.1 | 444 | 3.44 | – | – | 136 | 1.05 | 18 | .14 | 17 | .13 | 68 | .53 | – | – | 16 | .13 | – | – | 189 | 1.46 |
1905 | 2399 | 18.6 | 287 | 2.23 | 1 | .01 | 59 | .45 | 17 | .13 | 18 | .14 | 38 | .29 | – | – | 9 | .07 | – | – | 145 | 1.13 |
1906 | 2529 | 19.7 | 400 | 3.12 | – | – | 94 | .73 | 30 | .23 | 34 | .27 | 50 | .39 | – | – | 4 | .03 | – | – | 188 | 1.46 |
1907 | 2338 | 18.3 | 223 | 1.74 | – | – | 51 | .40 | 36 | .28 | 22 | .17 | 52 | .41 | – | – | 7 | .05 | – | – | 55 | .43 |
1908 | 2444 | 18.8 | 300 | 2.31 | – | – | 105 | .81 | 26 | .20 | 26 | .20 | 18 | .14 | – | – | 12 | .09 | – | – | 113 | .87 |
1909 | 2387 | 18.8 | 368 | 2.89 | – | – | 196 | 1.54 | 17 | .13 | 12 | .09 | 54 | .42 | 1 | .00 | 2 | ˙01 | – | – | 86 | .68 |
1910 | 2229 | 17.6 | 310 | 2.44 | – | – | 143 | 1.12 | 14 | .11 | 18 | .14 | 44 | .34 | – | – | 4 | .03 | – | – | 87 | .68 |
1911 | 2320 | 18.4 | 352 | 2.79 | – | – | 51 | .41 | 6 | .05 | 15 | .12 | 48 | .38 | – | – | 6 | .05 | – | – | 226 | 1.80 |
1912 | 2119 | 16.9 | 252 | 1.21 | – | – | 101 | .81 | 8 | .06 | 17 | .14 | 36 | .29 | 1 | .00 | 5 | .04 | – | – | 84 | .67 |
Average for years 1903 to 1912 | 2374 | 18.6 | 319 | 2.41 | – | – | 99 | .77 | 20 | .15 | 20 | .15 | 45 | .35 | 1 | .00 | 8 | .06 | – | – | 127 | 1.0 |
1913 | 2243 | 17.9 | 320 | 2.56 | – | – | 88 | .70 | 5 | .04 | 16 | .13 | 47 | .38 | – | – | 2 | .02 | – | – | 162 | 1.30 |
London 1913 | 65030 | 14.2 | 6201 | 1.36 | – | – | 1570 | .34 | 188 | .04 | 431 | .09 | 800 | .17 | – | – | 114 | .02 | – | – | 3098 | 27.50 |