Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hamlet of Mile End Old Town]
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TABLE X.
Shewing the Death-rate per 1000 persons living, from the undermentioned causes in London, the Eastern Districts of London, and Mile End Old Town,
1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | Average for the Five Years. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | Average for the Five Years. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893 | 1894. | 1895. | Average for the Five Years. | ||
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Principal Zymotic Diseases | 2. 8 | 3. 0 | 2. 7 | 3. 7 | 3.7 | 3. 5 | 4. 0 | 3. 5 | 2. 7 | 3.6 | 3. 6 | 4.0 | 3. 9 | 3. 5 | |||||
Small Pox | .06 | .04 | .02 | .01 | .02 | .01 | .06 | .03 | .01 | .02 | .. | ... | .07 | .03 | ... | .02 | |||
Measles | .4 | . 7 | .3 | .7 | .6 | .5 | .5 | .8 | .5 | 1.1 | 1.1 | .8 | .3 | .6 | .3 | 1.1 | 1. 0 | .6 | |
Scarlet Fever | .1 | 2.0 | .3 | .2 | .2 | .5 | . 1 | .4 | .4 | .2 | .2 | .2 | .1 | .3 | .3 | .3 | .2 | .2 | |
Diphtheria | .3 | .4 | .7 | .6 | .6 | .5 | .5 | .5 | .9 | .7 | .8 | .6 | .3 | .7 | .7 | .7 | 1. 0 | .6 | |
Whooping Cough | .6 | .5 | .5 | .4 | .3 | .4 | .7 | .9 | .9 | .6 | .4 | .7 | .4 | 1.0 | .7 | .6 | .4 | .6 | |
Typhoid Fever | .1 | .09 | .1 | .1 | .1 | .07 | .1 | .1 | .2 | .1 | 1. | .1 | .1 | .1 | .2 | .1 | .1 | .1 | |
Diarrhoea | .5 | .5 | .7 | .4 | .8 | .5 | .6 | .6 | 1.1 | .5 | 1.0 | .7 | .5 | .6 | 1.1 | .6 | 1.0 | .7 | |
Deaths from all causes | 17.4 | 24.3 | 25.8 | 24. 3 | 23.8 | ||||||||||||||
Deaths under one year to 1000 Births registered | 154 | 154 | 165 | 156 | 163 | 149 | 153 | 150 |