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Lambeth 1897
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1897
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TABLE P.
Shewing the number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the ten years 1887—96, and in the year 1897.
Disease.
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
Total Deaths in 1897.
Proportion of Deaths
to 1,000 total Deaths
1897.
Annual Average of
ten years 1887—96.
Proportion of Deaths
to 1000 Deaths in
10 years.
Smallpox
1
0
0
0
0
1
5
1
2
2
—
—
1.2
0.2
Diphtheria (and Membranous
Croup)
106
103
155
74
78
127
172
138
103
140
145
27.6
119.6
22.4
Scarlet Fever
120
82
73
57
46
76
69
64
53
63
42
7.9
70.3
13.2
Fever.
Typhus
1
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
—
—
0.5
0.1
Typhoid or Enteric
39
36
31
31
28
22
36
46
26
24
26
49
31.9
5.9
8
3
5
3
7
2
4
0
2
1
—
—
3.5
0.7
Simple Continued
Measles
152
119
157
183
128
187
113
182
151
185
139
26.5
155.7
29.2
Whooping Cough
187
171
137
194
239
135
151
110
132
140
144
27.4
159.6
29.9
Diarrhœa
278
120
168
154
165
155
197
139
263
152
238
45.3
179.1
33.6
Lambeth
892
634
727
696
692
705
748
680
732
708
734
139.8
721.4
135.2
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