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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
Willesden 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table No. 21.
FATALITY AND INCIDENCE FROM SCARLET FEVER, DIPHTHERIA, AND TYPHOID FEVER, RATES PER 1,000—1888 TO 1910.
| Year. | Fatality Rate. Scarlet Fever. Deaths per 1,000 cases. | Incidence Kate Scarlet Fever. Cases per 1,000 population. | Fatality Rate. Diphtheria. Deaths per 1,000 cases. | Incidence Rate. Diphtheria. Cases per 1,000 population. | Fatality Rate. Typhoid F ever. Deaths per 1,000 cases. | Incidence. Rate. Typhoid Fever. Cases per 1,000 population. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| 1888 | 60 | 3.8 | 193 | 1.2 | 209 | 0.81 |
| 1889 | 13 | 2.6 | 69 | 1.8 | 71 | 0.49 |
| 1890 | 11 | 2.9 | 140 | 2.4 | 170 | 0.66 |
| 1891 | 15 | 2.1 | 78 | 1.2 | 121 | 0.53 |
| 1892 | 22 | 127 | 2.1 | 214 | 0.42 | |
| 1893 | 25 | 8.6 | 199 | 3.1 | 191 | 0.66 |
| 1894 | 26 | 3.6 | 126 | 1.7 | 157 | 0.96 |
| 1895 | 43 | 4.9 | 190 | 2.2 | 174 | 0.87 |
| 1896 | 35 | 5.5 | 169 | 2.1 | 211 | 0.66 |
| 1897 | 21 | 5.4 | 250 | 2.9 | 230 | 0.56 |
| 1898 | 28 | 3.6 | 204 | 3.3 | 136 | 0.66 |
| 1899 | 38 | 3.9 | 148 | 2.9 | 128 | 0.73 |
| 1900 | 35 | 2.9 | 124 | 1.9 | 181 | 0.68 |
| 1901 | 21 | 4.9 | 138 | 3.4 | 175 | 0.49 |
| 1902 | 27 | 3.8 | 122 | 3.5 | 205 | 0.60 |
| 1903 | 22 | 3.8 | 46 | 1.6 | 290 | 0.34 |
| 1904 | 6 | 2.4 | 54 | 2.6 | 211 | 0.27 |
| 1905 | 13 | 2.8 | 51 | 1.9 | 293 | 0.29 |
| 1906 | 17 | 4.5 | 57 | 2.0 | 152 | 0.32 |
| 1907 | 30 | 4.4 | 71 | 1.7 | 143 | 0.19 |
| 1908 | 19 | 5.0 | 65 | 1.4 | 195 | 0.27 |
| 1909 | 25 | 4.4 | 48 | 1.4 | 146 | .27 |
| Mean Rate. | 25 | 4.1 | 122 | 2.2 | 182 | 0.53 |
| 1910 | 0 | 2.0 | 66 | 1.1 | 87 | 0.15 |