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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Paddington 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Borough of ]

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Table: TABLE V. Table showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Ten Years 1886 to 1895, and in the Year 1896.

TABLE V. Table showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Ten Years 1886 to 1895, and in the Year 1896.

DISEASE.1886.1887.1888.1889.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.Annual Averages 1886—96.Total Deaths in 1896. (53wks.)Death-rates, 1896.
Uncorrected.Corrected.
Smallpox......1............43...0.80.810.00
Measles663366117778130661845.548.11030.81
Scarlet Fever1135148671730131415.516.3220.17
Diphtheria2827753945273269924948.351.0670.52
Whooping Cough5519742682672959442047.550.0470.37
Fever.Typhus..........................................
Enteric151015161017719231514.715.5140.11
Simple Continued1.........1...............0.20.220 .01
Diarrhœa9263386362768265459167.771.6660.52
Totals268187co O0 <n163283201248276286207240.2254.13222.54

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*The decennial mean rates for these diseases are given in Table 23 (page 75).