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 Lewisham]
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Table 12.
Death Rates per 1,000 of the population, in Disease Groups, in the Wards and Divisions of the Borough for the year 1906.
Disease Class | Wards and Divisions. | |||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | |
Church | Manor | South | Lee | Blackheath | Lewisham Village | Lewisham Park | Brockley | Catford | Lewisham | Forest Hill | Sydenham | Sydenham and Forest Hiil | Whole Borough | |
I. infective | 1.6 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.6 |
II. Tuberculous | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
III. Malignant | 0.7 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 |
IV. Nervous | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
V. Heart and Blood Vessels | 1.7 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.1 | 1.9 |
VI. Respiratory | 1.9 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.8 |
VII. Digestive | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
VIII. Urinary | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
IX. Generative Organs | . | . | 0.2 | 0.1 | . | . | . | . | 0.0 | 0.0 | . | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0. 0 |
X. General Diseases | 1.9 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
XI. Accidents | 0.3 | — | — | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0. 2 | 0. 2 | 0.3 | 0. 4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 |
XII. Violence | — | — | — | . | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | — | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 .1 | 0. 1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
Total Deaths. | 11.0 | 11.3 | 9.3 | 10.6 | 11.8 12.4 | 14.2 | 11.0 | 11.6 | 12.2 | 11.7 12.4 | 12.1 | 12.0 |