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 Hornsey, Borough of]
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NUMBER OF DEATHS 1897-1920 FROM THE SEVEN PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases. — The number of deaths from each disease for 1920 and preceding years is shown in the following table:—
1920 | 1919 | 1918 | 1917 | 1916 | 1915 | 1914 | 1913 | 1912 | 1911 | 1910 | 1909 | 1908 | 1907 | 1906 | 1905 | 1904 | 1903 | 1902 | 1901 | 1900 | 1899 | 1898 | 1897 | |
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Small-pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Measles | 4 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 20 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 18 | 9 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 7 |
Scarlet Fever | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
Diphtheria | 20 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 11 | 16 |
Enteric Fever | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Whooping Cough | 7 | 0 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 19 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 19 | 9 | 14 | 18 | 20 | 8 | 10 |
Diarrhoea | 9 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 25 | 29 | 14 | 16 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 30 | 6 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 32 | 15 | 29 |
Totals | 45 | 17 | 40 | 29 | 25 | 85 | 42 | 40 | 30 | 78 | 27 | 38 | 46 | 44 | 76 | 38 | 69 | 48 | 35 | 40 | 52 | 65 | 52 | 64 |
I here were 45 deaths from Zymotic diseases in 1920, in
against 17 in 1919.