Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the District for the year 1897
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TABLE 5. Shewing the Death-rate per 1000 persons living, from the undermentioned causes in London, the Eastern Districts of London, and Mile End Old Town, 1893 to 1897.
LONDON. | EASTERN DISTRICTS. | MILE END OLD TOWN. | ||||||||||||||||
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1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | Average for the Five Years. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | Average for the Five Years. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | Average for the Five Yeais. | |
Principal Zymotic Diseases | 3.0 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 3.5 | |
Small Pox | .02 | .01 | .002 | .06 | .03 | .01 | .7 | .03 | ||||||||||
Measles | .3 | .7 | .6 | .8 | .5 | .5 | 1.1 | 1.1 | .9 | .1 | .8 | .3 | 1.1 | 1.0 | .7 | .5 | .7 | |
Scarlet Fever | .3 | .2 | .2 | .2 | .2 | .4 | .2 | .2 | .2 | .6 | .2 | .3 | .3 | .2 | .3 | .1 | .2 | |
Diphtheria | .7 | .6 | .6 | .5 | .3 | .5 | .9 | .8 | .7 | .6 | .4 | .7 | .7 | 7 | 1.0 | .8 | .5 | .7 |
Whooping Cough | .5 | .4 | .3 | .6 | .4 | .4 | .9 | .6 | .4 | .8 | .9 | .6 | .7 | .6 | .4 | .7 | .4 | .5 |
Typhoid Fever | .1 | .1 | .1 | .1 | .1 | .1 | .2 | .1 | .1 | .1 | .1 | .1 | .2 | .1 | .1 | .1 | .1 | |
Diarrhoea | .7 | .4 | .8 | .7 | .9 | .7 | .5 | .9 | 1.5 | 1.0 | .6 | 1.0 | .8 | .7 | .8 | |||
Deaths from all causes | 20.8 | 17.4 | 19.4 | 18.2 | 17.7 | 18.5 | 25.8 | 21.8 | 24.3 | 23.1 | 22.8 | 19.9 | 18.7 | 21.0 | ||||
Deaths under one year to 1000 Births registered | 164 | 142 | 165 | 160 | 158 | 157 | 181 | 161 | 180 | 164 | 173 | 171 | 150 | 155 | 165 | 157 | 149 | 155 |