Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Parish of Lambeth during the year 1898
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TABLE P. TABLE P. Shewing the number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the ten years 1888—97, and in the year 1898.
Disease. | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | Total Deaths in 1898. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths 1898. | Annual Average of ten years 1888—97. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 10 years. | |
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Smallpox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | 1.1 | 0.2 | |
Diphtheria (and Membranous Croup) | 103 | 155 | 74 | 78 | 127 1 | 172 | 138 | 103 | 140 | 145 | 115 | 21.2 | 123.5 | 23.2 | |
Scarlet Fever | 82 | 73 | 57 | 46 | 76 | 69 | 64 | 53 | 63 | 42 | 30 | 55 | 62.5 | 11.7 | |
Fever. | Typhus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | _ | _ | — | 0.4 | 0.08 |
Typhoid or Enteric | 36 | 31 | 31 | 28 | 22 | 36 | 46 | 26 | 24 | 26 | 35 | 6.4 | 30.6 | 5.7 | |
Simple Continued | 3 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | _ | _ | — | 2.7 | 0.5 | |
Measles | 119 | 157 | 183 | 128 | 187 | 113 | 182 | 151 | 185 | 139 | 133 | 24.5 | 154.4 | 28.9 | |
Whooping Cough | 171 | 137 | 194 | 239 | 135 | 151 | 110 | 132 | 140 | 144 | 159 | 29.3 | 155.3 | 29.1 | |
Diarrhœa | 120 | 168 | 154 | 165 | 155 | 197 | 139 | 263 | 152 | 238 | 254 | 46.8 | 175.1 | 32.9 | |
Lambeth | 634 | 727 | 696 | 692 | 705 | 748 | 680 | 732 | 708 | 734 | 726 | 133.7 | 705.6 | 132.4 | |
London | 10503 | 9709 | 12270 | 9675 | 11983 | 13223 | 11544 | 11467 | 14009 | 11525 | 12482 | 152.2 | 11590.8 | 137.4 |