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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: TABLE V. Table showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Ten Years 1888 to 1897, and in the Year 1898.

TABLE V. Table showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Ten Years 1888 to 1897, and in the Year 1898.

DISEASE.1888.1889.1890.1891.1892.1893.1891.1895.1896.1897.Averages, 1888—97.1898.
Uncorrected.Corrected and Adjusted.Deaths.Death-rates.
Smallpox1............43...1..0.91......
Measles661177781306618103246.149890.69
Scarlet Fever1486717301314222015.11680.06
Diphtheria7539452732699249676556.059640.50
Whooping Cough7426826729594420474048.851450.35
Fever.Typhus..........................................
Enteric15161017719231514614.215170 13
Simple Continued...1..................210.40......
Diarrhœa38636276826545916610769.573920.72
Totals283163283201248276286207322241251.02643152.46