Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, 1897
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TABLE VI.
Summary of the Vital Statistics of the Parish of Plumstead, 1885.1897.
Year. | Estimated Population middle of year. | Births. | Deaths. | Annual Rate per 1000 living. | Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases | Smallpox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough | Typhus. | Enteric Fever. | Simple and Undefined Fever. | Diarrh6a. | Phthisis. | Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1000 births. | ||
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Births. | Deaths. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | ||||||||||||||||
1885 | 40,354 | 1390 | 607 | 34.4 | 15.1 | 1.71 | 69 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 27 | .. | 5 | .. | 14 | .. | 120 |
1886 | 4.2,235 | 1609 | 735 | 38.2 | 17.5 | 2.64 | 111 | .. | 48 | 2 | 11 | 12 | .. | 3 | 1 | 34 | .. | 124 |
1887 | 44,204 | 1667 | 714 | 37.8 | 16.2 | 2.35 | 104 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 11 | 32 | .. | 2 | .. | 33 | .. | 116 |
1888 | 46,264 | 1703 | 689 | 36.9 | 14.9 | 1.58 | 73 | .. | .. | 3 | 19 | 33 | .. | 2 | .. | 16 | .. | 112 |
1889 | 48,420 | 1852 | 759 | 38.4 | 15.7 | 2.03 | 98 | .. | 43 | 5 | 13 | 14 | .. | 2 | 21 | 69 | 115 | |
1890 | 50,676 | 1933 | 923 | 37.5 | 17.9 | 2.47 | 127 | .. | 33 | 11 | 14 | 44 | .. | 2 | .. | 22 | 95 | 137 |
1891 | 52,754 | 1867 | 920 | 35.3 | 17.4 | 1 57 | 83 | .. | 33 | 1 | 6 | 24 | .. | 4 | .. | 15 | 114 | 121 |
1892 | 54,060 | 1932 | 849 | 35.7 | 15.7 | 2.48 | 136 | .. | 19 | 25 | 38 | 29 | .. | 3 | .. | 22 | 100 | 108 |
1893 | 55,398 | 1914 | 994 | 34.5 | 17.9 | 3.71 | 211 | 2 | 47 | 31 | 65 | 23 | .. | 8 | .. | 35 | 111 | 140 |
1894 | 56,770 | 1910 | 736 | 33.6 | 12 9 | 2.06 | 123 | 2 | 20 | 21 | 34 | 30 | .. | 6 | .. | 10 | 70 | 94 |
1895 | 58,175 | 1866 | 930 | 3.20 | 15.9 | 2.5 | 153 | 2 | 24 | 10 | 34 | 5 | .. | 30 | .. | 48 | 96 | 134 |
1896 | 59,615 | 1950 | 931 | 32.7 | 15.6 | 3.5 | 213 | .. | 68 | 14 | 60 | 35 | .. | 4 | .. | 30 | 81 | 133 |
1897 | 61,090 | 1975 | 835 | 32.3 | 13.6 | 2.2 | 138 | •• | 3 | 6 | 24 | 21 | .. | 3 | .. | 81 | 96 | 116 |