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 Paddington, Borough of ]
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TABLE 23.
Birth-rate 1 | Death-rates* from | Infantile Mortality (0-1 year) per 1,000 births registered. | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All Causes. | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Fever. + | Diarrhoea. | Phthisis. | ||||
England & Wale | 1896 | 29.7 | 17.1 | 2.18 | 0.02 | 0.56 | 0.18 | 0.29 | 0.41 | 0.17 | 0.55 | ? | 148 |
,1886-95 | 30.9 | 18.8 | 2.13 | 0.01 | 0.43 | 0.21 | 0.21 | 0.42 | 0.19 | 0.64 | 1.54 | 148 | |
33 Great Towns | 1896 | 30.7 | 18.9 | 2.86 | 0.00 | 0.71 | 0.22 | 0.38 | 0.57 | 0.19 | 0.79 | ? | 167 |
1886-95 | ? | 20.9 | 2.81 | 0.02 | 0.60 | 0.27 | 0.27 | 0.55 | 0.21 | 0.88 | ? | 167 | |
67 Large Towns.. 1896 | 30.1 | 17.3 | 2.52 | 012 | 0.74 | 0.20 | 0.25 | 0.43 | 0.20 | 0.68 | ? | 161 | |
Rest of England & Wales 1896 | ? | 15.8 | 1.60 | 0.00 | 0.43 | 0.14 | 0.23 | 0.30 | 0.14 | 0.36 | ? | 130 | |
Registration London | 1896 | 30.2 | 18.2 | 3.11 | 0.00 | 0.82 | 0.21 | 0 59 | 0.65 | 0.14 | 0.71 | 1.68 | 160 |
1886-95 | 31.5 | 18.6 | 2.73 | 0.01 | 0.61 | 0.24 | 0.41 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.70 | 1.90 | 155 | |
PADDINGTON. | 1896 | 24.2 | 15.3 | 2.54 | 0.00 | 0.81 | 017 | 0.52 | 0.37 | 012 | 0.52 | 1.18 | 155 |
1886-95 | 24.6 | 16.6 | 2.04 | 0.00 | 0.38 | 0.13 | 0.40 | 0.40 | 0.12 | 0.57 | 1.37 | 144 |
* All rates per 1,000 living. † Includes Typhus, Enteric or Typhoid, and Simple Continued Fevers,
0.00 indicates a rate of less than 0.01 per 1,000,