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, The Vestry of the Parish of]
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Shewing the number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the ten years 1890—99, and in the year 1900.
Disease. | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | Total Deaths in 1900. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 total Deaths 1899. | Annual Average of ten years 1890—99. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 total Deaths in 10 years. | |
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Smallpox | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 1.1 | 0.2 | |
Diphtheria (and Membranous Croup) | 74 | 78 | 127 | 172 | 138 | 103 | 140 | 145 | 115 | 159 | 103 | 21.2 | 124.7 | 23.2 | |
Scarlet Fever | 57 | 46 | 76 | 69 | 64 | 53 | 63 | 42 | 30 | 25 | 20 | 5.5 | 57.3 | 11.7 | |
Fever. | Typhus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 | 0.08 |
Typhoid or Enteric | 31 | 28 | 22 | 36 | 46 | 26 | 24 | 26 | 35 | 50 | 54 | 6.4 | 30.5 | 5.7 | |
Simple Continued | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | 2.4 | 0.5 | |
Measles | 183 | 128 | 187 | 113 | 182 | 151 | 185 | 139 | 133 | 169 | 69 | 24.5 | 155.8 | 28.9 | |
Whooping Cough | 194 | 239 | 135 | 151 | 110 | 132 | 140 | 144 | 159 | 130 | 97 | 29.3 | 154.1 | 29.1 | |
Diarrhœa | 154 | 165 | 155 | 197 | 139 | 263 | 152 | 238 | 254 | 249 | 153 | 46.8 | 188.5 | 32.9 | |
696 | 692 | 705 | 748 | 680 | 732 | 708 | 734 | 726 | 782 | 497 | 133.7 | 714.8 | 132.4 | ||
12270 | 9675 | 11983 | 13223 | 11544 | 11467 | 14009 | 11525 | 12482 | 11147 | 10136 | 152.2 | 11788.7 | 137.4 |