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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

Kensington 1898

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1898

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Table: TABLE V. Showing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class in the ten years 1888-97, and in the year 1898.

TABLE V. Showing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class in the ten years 1888-97, and in the year 1898.

Diseases.1888.1889.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.Annual Average of ten years 1888-97.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths from all causes in ten years 1888-97.Deaths in 1898.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths from all causes in 1898.
Small-pox00000900000·90·3......
Measles124141402910918108331733378·127·912042·9
Scarlet Fever2628261636512227392930·010·7238·2
Diphtheria89111352831837589728269·524·8269·3
Whooping-cough10026938463656139991964·923·25218·6
Typhus Fever00000000000·00·020·0
Enteric Fever2119152415172115152118·36·5124·3
Simp. Continued Fever20012031111·10·300·0
Diarrhœa587178917798561186112583·329·811240·0
TOTALS.Kensington.420269387273333341346322460310346·1123·6347123·3
London.10803970912279967511983132231154411544141001152511638137·912565149·7
England &.Wales5068461027596985322156032734995277164901669366705160582111·369714126·3