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 1936
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DEATHS FROM ZYMOTIC DISEASES, 1936.
Year | All Causes | Principal Zymotic Diseases | Smallpox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Whooping Cough | Enteric Fever | Diarrhœa | |||||||||
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No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | No. | Rate | |
1926 | 1484 | 12.1 | 94 | .76 | – | – | 24 | .19 | 6 | .05 | 42 | .34 | 1 | .01 | – | – | 21 | .17 |
1927 | 1566 | 12.9 | 45 | .37 | – | – | 9 | .07 | – | – | 13 | .11 | 10 | .08 | 1 | – | 12 | .09 |
1928 | 1520 | 13.2 | 137 | 1.19 | – | – | 77 | .67 | 3 | .03 | 16 | .14 | 26 | .23 | 1 | .01 | 14 | .12 |
1929 | 1650 | 14.5 | 62 | .54 | – | – | 1 | .01 | 2 | .02 | 6 | .05 | 33 | .29 | 1 | .01 | 19 | .17 |
1930 | 1488 | 13.1 | 101 | .89 | – | – | 61 | .54 | 7 | .06 | 8 | .07 | 6 | .05 | 2 | .02 | 17 | .15 |
1931 | 1408 | 12.5 | 24 | .21 | – | – | 3 | .03 | 1 | .01 | 6 | .05 | 5 | .04 | – | – | 9 | 08 |
1932 | 1326 | 12.0 | 67 | .61 | 1 | .01 | 25 | .23 | – | – | 11 | .10 | 16 | .15 | – | – | 14 | 13 |
1933 | 1340 | 12.5 | 45 | .42 | – | – | 9 | .08 | 4 | .04 | 13 | .12 | 5 | .05 | – | – | 14 | .13 |
1934 | 1304 | 12.4 | 87 | .83 | – | – | 38 | .36 | 1 | .01 | 10 | .10 | 10 | .10 | – | – | 28 | .26 |
1935 | 1201 | 11.7 | 54 | .53 | – | – | 4 | .04 | – | – | 10 | .10 | 5 | .05 | – | – | 30 | .34 |
Average for years 1926-1935 | 1429 | 12.7 | 72 | .63 | – | – | 25 | .22 | 2 | .02 | 13 | .12 | 12 | .10 | – | – | 18 | .16 |
1936 | 1289 | 12.8 | 56 | .56 | – | – | 20 | .20 | – | – | 8 | .08 | 5 | .05 | 4 | 0.4 | 19 | .19 |