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 St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table V.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 10 years 1873 to 188.,
and in the year 1883.
Disease. | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | Annual Average of 10 years, 1873.82 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1873.82. | Total Deaths in 1883. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1883. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | 2 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 129 | 94 | 19 | 18 | 84 | 6 | 37.9 | 7.5 | 3 | 0 6 |
Measles | 281 | 64 | 82 | 117 | 143 | 48 | 129 | 58 | 172 | 130 | 122.4 | 24.2 | 99 | 21.1 |
Scarlet Fever | 17 | 95 | 240 | 137 | 89 | 138 | 144 | 156 | 180 | 65 | 126.2 | 23.0 | 61 | 130 |
Diphtheria | 38 | 35 | 55 | 38 | 22 | 23 | 25 | 34 | 70 | 51 | 39.1 | 7.7 | 78 | 16.6 |
Whooping Cough | 212 | 121 | 232 | 198 | 141 | 217 | 154 | 293 | 122 | 288 | 197.8 | 391 | 72 | 15.3 |
Typhus Fever | 9 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .. | 6.2 | 1.2 | 2 | 0.4 |
Enteric Fever | 58 | 38 | 35 | 60 | 58 | 59 | 57 | 43 | 66 | 69 | 54.3 | 10.7 | 132 | 28.2 |
Simple Continued Fever | 14 | 25 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 8 | .. | 9.3 | 18.4 | 2 | 0.4 |
Diarrhoea | 253 | 222 | 178 | 239 | 155 | 229 | 118 | 204 | 211 | 119 | 192.8 | 38.1 | 162 | 34.8 |
Totals | 884 | 613 | 848 | 823 | 767 | 816 | 655 | 811 | 914 | 729 | 786.0 | 169.9 | 611 | 130.4 |
Totals—London | 11.226 | 11,327 | 13,340 | 12,536 | 12,232 | 14,619 | 12,010 | 13,735 | 13,553 | 13,553 | 12,838.9 | 147.6 | 1,884 | 135.0 |