London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Paddington 1897
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1897
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TABLE 16.
| Birth-rate 1 | Death-rates* from | Infantile Mortality (0-1 year) per 1,000 births registered. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Causes. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Fever. † | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | ||||
| England & Wales | 1897 | 29.7 | 17.4 | 2.15 | 0.00 | 0.40 | 0.14 | 0.24 | 0.35 | 0.16 | 0.86 | ? | 156 |
| 1887.96 | 30.7 | 18.6 | 2.11 | 0.01 | 0.44 | 0.20 | 0.22 | 0.41 | 0.16 | 0.60 | 1.50 | 148 | |
| 33 Great Towns | 1897 | 30.7 | 19.1 | 2.87 | 0.00 | 0.55 | 0.18 | 0.31 | 0.41 | 0.18 | 1.24 | ? | 177 |
| 1887.96 | ? | 20.6 | 2.38 | 0.02 | 0.62 | 0.27 | 0.29 | 0.14 | 0.20 | 0.84 | ? | 167 | |
| 67 Large Towns 1897 | 30.1 | 17.2 | 2.41 | 0.00 | 0.43 | 0.15 | 0.24 | 0.38 | 0.16 | 1.05 | ? | 169 | |
| Rest of England & Wales 1897 | ? | 16.4 | 1.62 | o.oo | 0.29 | 012 | 0.19 | 0.31 | 0.14 | 0.57 | ? | 138 | |
| Registration London | 1897 | 30.0 | 17.7 | 2.68 | o.oo | 0.43 | 0.17 | 0.50 | 0.41 | 0.13 | 0.92 | 1.76 | 158 |
| 1887.96 | 31.3 | 19.9 | 2.76 | 0.00 | 0.64 | 0.25 | 0.45 | 0.59 | 0.15 | 0.67 | 1.88 | 155 | |
| PADDINGTON | 1897‡ | 23.8 | 14.4 | 1.94 | ... | 0.02 | 0.17 | 0.51 | 0.35 | 0.08 | 0.81 | 1.13 | 149 |
| 1887.96 | 24.5 | 16.5 | 2.06 | 0.00 | 0.40 | 0.13 | 0.43 | 0.39 | 0.11 | 0.54 | 1.35 | 145 | |
* All rates per 1,000 of population. † Includes Typhus, Enteric (or Typhoid), and Simple Continued Fevers. 0.00 indicates
a rate of under 0.01 per 1,000. ... indicates no deaths recorded. ‡ From Registrar-General's Annual Summary. § From
local registers.