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 Acton]
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It will be noticed that the death rate is the lowest since 1890, and the zymotic lower than the two preceeding years.
1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Measles | 1 | 25 | 11 | 9 | 24 | 2 | 15 |
Scarlet Fever | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | — | 10 | 3 |
Diphtheria | 2 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
Whooping Cough | 9 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 25 | 5 | 17 |
Typhoid Fever | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | |
Diarrhoea & Dysentery | 10 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 34 | 60 | 17 |
Puerperal Fever | — | — | — | 1 | 6 | 4 | |
Total number of Deaths from 7 Zymotic Diseases | 24 | 60 | 43 | 45 | 91 | 89 | 63 |
Deaths from other causes | 282 | 377 | 298 | 368 | 334 | 396 | 330 |
Total Deaths | 306 | 437 | 341 | 413 | 425 | 486 | 393 |
Death rate from seven' Zymotic diseases per thousand | 1.09 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.2 |
Death rate from other 1 causes per thousand.) | 12.9 | 16.1 | 12.0 | 15.3 | 13.4 | 15.2 | 12 |
General Death rate per thousand | 13.99 | 18.9 | 13.9 | 17.1 | 17 | 18.6 | 14.2 |
REMARKS.
There have been no deaths from Small Pox, fifteen deaths
from Measles, 13 of which were children under 5 years of age who
succumbed to lung complications.
Three deaths from Scarlet Fever, and 5 from Diphtheria
were registered, one of these occurred at the West London
Hospital, the others as isolated cases in different parts of the
Parish.