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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Croydon 1894
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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Table IV.—Showing the number of DEATHS from the Principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 Years
1884 to 1893, and in the Year 1894.
| Disease. | 1884. | 1S85. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | Annual Average of 10 years, 1884-1893. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Population in 10 years, 1884—1893. | Total Deaths in 1894. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Population in 1894. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | .1 | .00 | 0 | - | |
| Measles | 13 | 16 | 3 | 25 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 17 | 7 | 10.6 | .42 | 1 | .03 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4.4 | .17 | 5 | .18 | |
| Diphtheria | 6 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7.0 | .3 | 21 | .74 | |
| Whooping Cough | 19 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 22 | 10.7 | .4 | 2 | .67 | |
| Fever | Typhus | - | - | - | — | — | - | - | - | - | - | — | — | — | — |
| Enteric | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2.3 | .09 | 2 | .07 | |
| Simple continued | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Diarrhœa | 18 | 9 | 20 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 20 | 201 | 13.4 | .53 | 9 | .32 | |
| Totals | 60 | 50 | 47 | 59 | 38 | 35 | 49 | 35 | 53 | 59 | 48.5 | 1.93 | 40 | 1.41 | |
| Zymotic Death-rate | 2.64 | 2.16 | 2.0 | 2.44 | 1.54 | 1.38 | 1.82 | 1.33 | 1.96 | 2.13 | 1.93 | — | 1.41 | ||
| Zymotic Death-rate in England and Wales | 2.81 | 2.23 | 2.42 | 2.42 | 1.88 | 2.23 | 2.15 | 1.91 | 2.0 | 2.47 | 2.25 | — | 1.76 | ||
* Including a case of cholera.
N.B.—Before 1893, the deaths occurring outside the District among persons belonging thereto were included in the above figures