Report on the sanitary condition of the Limehouse District (comprising the Parishes of Limehouse, Shadwell, and Wapping, and the Hamlet of Ratcliff) for the year 1898 page 34

Limehouse 1898

Report on the sanitary condition of the Limehouse District (comprising the Parishes of Limehouse, Shadwell, and Wapping, and the Hamlet of Ratcliff) for the year 1898

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Table: TABLE IV.Table shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 10 years, 1888 to 1897,and in the year 1898.

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TABLE IV.

Table shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 10 years, 1888 to 1897,

and in the year 1898.

Disease.		1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	Annual Average of 10 years, 1888—1897.	Total Deaths in 1898.	Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1898.
Small Pox		—	—	—	—	—	7	1	1	_	_	.9	_	_
Measles		88	20	92	14	63	16	72	81	49	63	55.8	57	40.2
Scarlet Fever		23	27	15	5	27	31	41	17	14	12	21.2	5	3.5
Diphtheria		23	41	25	15	28	62	42	41	35	26	33.8	25	18.
Membranous Croup		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	3	.5	1	.7
Whooping Cough		58	23	70	59	59	49	28	42	52	37	47.7	62	44.6
Influenza		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	5	5	1.	19	13.6
Fever	Typhus	-	1	—	-	-	1	-	-	—	—	.2	—	—
	Enteric	9	13	14	6	-	16	6	10	3	4	8.1	8	5.7
	Simple contn'd	9	1	—	—	6	-	—	-	—	—	1.6	1	.7
	Puerprl.	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	.2	—	—
Diarrhœa		27	47	52	49	27	56	22	49	40	61	43.	90	64.7
Totals		237	173	268	148	210	238	212	241	201	212	214.	268	191.7

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Limehouse 1898

Table: TABLE IV.Table shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 10 years, 1888 to 1897,and in the year 1898.