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Lewisham 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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Table 5.
Death Rates from principal Zymotic Diseases and Phthisis, and
Infantile Mortality in the Borough and its Divisions, for
the Year 1911.
Disease.
Lee
Division.
Lewisham
Division.
Sydenham
and Forest
Hill Div.
Whole
Borough
Small-Pox
—
—
—
_
Measles
0.44
0.07
0.06
0.12
Scarlet Fever
—
0.02
0.06
0.03
Diphtheria
0.05
0.18
0.18
0.17
Whooping Cough
0.09
0.05
0.20
0.10
Enteric Fever
—
0.01
0.06
0.02
Epidemic Diarrhoea and
Enteritis
0.73
0.72
0.08
0.71
Total Zymotic Death
Rates
1.33
1.07
1.30
1.16
Infantile Mortality Rate
111
99
111
104
Phthisis Death Rate
0.64
0.51
0.74
0.64
Comparative Rates for other Boroughs will be found in Table 12.