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 Kensington]
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TABLE V.
Showing the number of Deaths in 10 years, 1868-77, from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, and the number in 1878, &c.
| Disease. | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | Annual Average 10 years 1868-77. | Proportion of deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1868-77. | 1878 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths, 1878. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | 4 | 6 | 8 | 120 | 68 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 84 | 29.9 | 11.9 | 24 | 3.8 |
| Measles | 84 | 27 | 70 | 64 | 43 | 38 | 121 | 23 | 128 | 54 | 65.2 | 26.1 | 53 | 17.1 |
| Scarlet Fever | 170 | 106 | 198 | 95 | 29 | 10 | 32 | 83 | 59 | 31 | 81.3 | 32.5 | 77 | 24.6 |
| Diphtheria | * | 9 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 26 | 23 | 17 | 10 | 13.5 | 5.4 | 20 | 6.4 |
| Whooping Cough . | 34 | 71 | 55 | 72 | 77 | 44 | 45 | 107 | 124 | 34 | 66.3 | 26.5 | 185 | 59.8 |
| "Fever" | 52 | 42 | 46 | 48 | 42 | 41 | 52 | 29 | 36 | 27 | 41.5 | 16.1 | 33 | 10.5 |
| Diarrhœa | 113 | 108 | 154 | 129 | 110 | 145 | 112 | 107 | 126 | 99 | 120.3 | 49.2 | 181 | 58.8 |
| Total, Kensington | 457 | 369 | 545 | 539 | 383 | 290 | 388 | 372 | 498 | 339 | 418 | 167.7 | 573 | 181.0 |
| Total, London | 14,925 | 17,431 | 16,476 | 19,455 | 12,699 | 11,385 | 11,230 | 13,411 | 12,565 | 12,365 | 14,192 | 183 | 14,734 | 175 |
| TOTAL, ENGLAND & "WALES, For 10 years,1867—76* | 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | Average 1867 76 10 years. | 1867—76 | 1877 | 1877 |
| 72,587 | 97,352 | 90,380 | 100,497 | 103,801 | 91,743 | 89,286 | 88,200 | 82,332 | 75,506 | 89,168 | 178 | 66,558 | 133 |
* Not separately registered.
†ke Totals for England and Wales are for the ten years 1867-76, compared with. 1877, the latest year of publication.