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 Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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TABLE P.
TABLE P.
Shewing the number of Deaths (corrected) from the 7 principal zymotic diseases in the old Parish of Lambeth and in London, in the ten years 1891 —1900, and in the new Borough of Lambeth and in London during 1910.
Disease. | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | 1900 | Annual average of ten years 1891 —1900 (old Parish). | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths (corrected) in 10 yrs. | Total (corrected) Deaths in 1910. | Proportion of Zymotic Deaths to 1000 Total Deaths (corrected)1910 | |
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Smallpox | — | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 1.1 | 0.2 | — | — | |
Diphtheria | 76 | 127 | 172 | 138 | 103 | 129 | 138 | 108 | 153 | 101 | 124.5 | 23.03 | 25 | 6.1 | |
Membranous Croup | 2 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 6.8 | 1.3 | 1 | 0.25 | |
Scarlet Fever | 46 | 76 | 69 | 64 | 53 | 63 | 42 | 30 | 25 | 20 | 48.8 | 9.03 | 22 | 5.4 | |
Fever | Typhus | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 0.3 | 0.06 | — | — |
Typhoid or Enteric | 28 | 22 | 36 | 46 | 26 | 24 | 26 | 35 | 50 | 54 | 34.7 | 6.4 | 17 | 4.2 | |
Simple or Continued | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1.7 | 0.3 | — | — | |
Measles | 128 | 187 | 113 | 182 | 151 | 185 | 139 | 133 | 169 | 69 | 145.6 | 26.9 | 122 | 29.9 | |
Whooping Cough | 239 | 135 | 151 | 110 | 132 | 140 | 144 | 159 | 130 | 97 | 143.7 | 26.6 | 54 | 13.2 | |
Diarrhœa (and Cholera) | 166 | 167 | 205 | 142 | 263 | 152 | 238 | 254 | 249 | 153 | 198.9 | 36.8 | 90 | 22.1 | |
693 | 726 | 767 | 687 | 741 | 708 | 734 | 726 | 782 | 497 | 706.1 | 130.6 | 331 | 81.1 | ||
9675 | 11983 | 13223 | 11544 | 11467 | 14009 | 11525 | 12482 | 11147 | 10136 | 11575.3 | 130.8 | 5559 | 90.0 |