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 1919
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TABLE VII.—DEATH FROM ZYMOTIC DISEASES, 1919.
Year. | All Causes. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Smallpox. | 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. | |
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 |
1913 | 2243 | 17.9 | 320 | 2.56 | – | – | 88 | .70 | 5 | .04 | 16 | .13 | 47 | .38 | – | – | 2 | .02 | – | – | 162 | 1.30 |
1914 | 2184 | 17.6 | 262 | 2.11 | – | – | 79 | .64 | 9 | .07 | 17 | .14 | 14 | .11 | – | – | 2 | .02 | – | – | 141 | 1.14 |
1915 | 2514 | 21.4 | 367 | 3.13 | – | – | 110 | .93 | 9 | .07 | 20 | .17 | 79 | .67 | – | – | 3 | .03 | – | – | 146 | 1.24 |
1916 | 1960 | 17.2 | 155 | 1.36 | – | – | 42 | .36 | 5 | .04 | 29 | .25 | 16 | .14 | – | – | 2 | .01 | – | – | 61 | .53 |
1917 | 2032 | 18.8 | 218 | 2.02 | – | – | 72 | .66 | 1 | .01 | 18 | .16 | 32 | .29 | – | – | 6 | .05 | – | – | 89 | .82 |
1918 | 2390 | 22.0 | 229 | 2.11 | – | – | 71 | .66 | 3 | .03 | 23 | .21 | 84 | .78 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 48 | .44 |
Average for years 1909 to 1918 | 2237 | 18.0 | 283 | 2.26 | – | – | 95 | .78 | 8 | .06 | 18 | .15 | 46 | .38 | – | – | 3 | .03 | – | – | 113 | .93 |
1919 | 1748 | 14.1 | 113 | .91 | – | – | 18 | 14 | 5 | .04 | 21 | .17 | 4 | .03 | – | – | 3 | .02 | – | – | 62 | .49 |