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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 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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| Disease. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | 1892. | 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | Average Annual Deaths in 10 years, 1886—1895. | Total Deaths in 1896. | Death Rate per 1000 Population in 10 years, 1886—1895. | Death Rate per 1000 Population in 1896. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | .00 | .00 | |
| Measles | 3 | 25 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 6 | 17 | 7 | 1 | — | 8 | 18 | .31 | .61 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 5 | 5 | 3 | — | 19 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | - | .18 | .00 | |
| Diphtheria | 4 | 9 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 8 | 5 | .31 | .17 | |
| Whooping Cough | 14 | — | 2 | 21 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | .31 | .44 | |
| Fever | Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | - | .00 | .00 |
| Enteric | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | .08 | .17 | |
| Simple continued | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | .00 | .00 | |
| Diarrhoea | 20 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 20 | 20* | 9 | ! 7 | 13 | 18 | .49 | .61 | |
| Totals | 47 | 59 | 38 | 35 | 49 | 35 | 53 | 59 | 40 | 33 | 44 | 59 | 1.68 | 2.01 | |
| Zymotic Death-rate | 2 0 | 2.44 | 1.54 | 1.38 | 1.82 | 1.33 | 1.96 | 213 | 1.41 | 1.16 | - | — | 1.68 | 2.01 | |
| Zymotic Death.rate in England and Wales | 2.42 | 2.42 | 1.88 | 2.23 | 2.15 | 1.91 | 2 0 | 2.47 | 1.81 | 2.17 | — | — | 2.15 | 2.18 | |
* Including a case of cholera.
N.B.—Before 1893, the deaths occurring outside the District among persons belonging thereto were not included in the above figures.