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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

Lewisham 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: Table 18.Deaths from PrincipalZymotic Diseasesarranged in Age Groups,for the year1908.

Table 18.

Deaths from PrincipalZymotic Diseasesarranged in Age Groups,for the year1908.

Ages.Small.Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Enteric Fever,Epidemic Diarrhoea and Enteritis.Dysentry.Totals in Age Groups.
Under 1 year—7—117—33—58
1 and under 5 years—3762211—10—86
5 and under 15 years—25192———28
15 and under *25 years———2————2
25 years and upwards—1———4—27
Total all ages—471144304432181

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Note.—Typhus Fever should be included in the list of Principal Zymotic
Diseases. It is omitted in the above table, as no cases occurred
during the year.