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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
Southwark 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1915.
Estimated population 179,424
Total Births 5,247
Total Deaths 3,727
Birth Rate for London 22.6
Do. Southwark 29.2
Death Rate for London 16.1
Do. Southwark 20.8
Cases of Infectious Disease notified.
| Chicken Pox | Anthrax. | Polio Myelitis. | Ophthalm. neonatorm. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Diphtheria. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Membranous Croup. | Continued Fever. | Cerebrospinal Fever. | Phthisis. | Other Tuberculosis. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 336 | 1 | 1 | 56 | 465 | 23 | 376 | 254 | 26 | 11 | 1 | 25 | 634 | 214 | 2423 |
Deaths in the Sanitary Area from the principal Zymotic
Diseases.
| Total excluding Phthisis. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Ferer. | Diarrhaea. | Phthisis. | Deaths under ] year to 1,000 Births registered. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 404 | — | 131 | 12 | 37 | 46 | — | 3 | 175 | 388 | — |
| The Zymo tic | Bate per 1 000 an d Infa nt Rate. | |||||||||
| 2.22 | — | 0.73 | 0.06 | 0.20 | 0.25 | — | 0.01 | 0.97 | 2.16 | 132 |