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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 1898
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1898
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TABLE 5. Vaccination Returns 1881-1897.
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1889, when no deaths from this disease were recorded
in the whole Metropolis, the percentage was 12.7,
falling to 11.6 in 1890 (four deaths in the Metropolis),
rising to a maximum (since 1881) of 17.7 in 1891
(eight deaths), falling to 12.6 in 1892 (41 deaths), to
10.0 in 1893 (206 deaths), and 8.2 in 1894 (88
deaths in the Metropolis, and an outbreak in Lisson
Grove District, Marylebone), after which date it rose
to 8.8 in 1895 (55 deaths), 9.0 in 1896 (nine deaths),
and 10 in 1897 (16 deaths). Deaths from smallpox
were recorded in Padd'ington in 1881 (seven deaths),