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 1899
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TABLE P. Shewing the number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic
Disease. | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Smallpox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
Diphtheria (and Membranous Croup) | 155 | 74 | 78 | 127 | 172 | |
Scarlet Fever | 73 | 57 | 46 | 76 | 69 | |
Fever | Typhus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Typhoid or Enteric | 31 | 31 | 28 | 22 | 36 | |
Simple Continued | 5 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | |
Measles | 157 | 183 | 128 | 187 | 113 | |
Whooping Cough | 137 | 194 | 239 | 135 | 151 | |
Diarrhoea | 168 | 154 | 165 | 155 | 197 | |
Lambeth | 727 | 696 | 692 | 705 | 748 | |
9709 | 12270 | 9675 | 11983 | 13223 |
TABLE P. Diseases in the ten years 1889—98, and in the year 1899.
1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | Total Deaths in 1899 | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths 1899 | Annual Average of ten Years 1889-98 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 10 years. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1.1 | 0.2 |
138 | 103 | 140 | 145 | 115 | 159 | 21.2 | 124.7 | 23.2 |
64 | 53 | 63 | 42 | 3D | 25 | 5.5 | 57.3 | 11.7 |
0 | 0 | 1 | - | 0.4 | 0.08 | |||
46 | 26 | 24 | 26 | 35 | 50 | 6.4 | 30.5 | 5.7 |
0 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2.4 | 0.5 |
182 | 151 | 185 | 139 | 133 | 169 | 24.5 | 155.8 | 28.9 |
110 | 132 | 140 | 144 | 159 | 130 | 29.3 | 154.1 | 29.1 |
139 | 263 | 152 | 238 | 254 | 249 | 46.8 | 188.5 | 32.9 |
680 | 732 | 708 | 734 | 726 | 782 | 133.7 | 714.8 | 132.4 |
11544 | 11467 | 14009 | 11525 | 12482 | 11147 | 152.2 | 11788.7 | 137.4 |