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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Showing the number of Deaths in ten years, 1869—78, from the principal Zymotic Diseases, and the number in 1879, &c.
Diseases. | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | Annual Average 10 years 1869-78. | Proportion of deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1869-78. | 1879 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths, 1879. |
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Small-pox | 6 | 8 | 120 | 68 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 84 | 24 | 31.9 | 12.3 | 24 | 7.6 |
Measles | 27 | 70 | 64 | 43 | 38 | 121 | 23 | 128 | 54 | 53 | 62.1 | 24.0 | 60 | 20.0 |
Scarlet Fever | 106 | 198 | 95 | 29 | 10 | 32 | 83 | 59 | 31 | 77 | 72.0 | 27.7 | 51 | 17.0 |
Diphtheria | 9 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 26 | 23 | 17 | 10 | 20 | 15.5 | 6.0 | 26 | 9.0 |
Whooping Cough | 71 | 55 | 72 | 77 | 44 | 45 | 107 | 124 | 34 | 185 | 81.4 | 31.8 | 93 | 31.1 |
"Fever" | 42 | 46 | 48 | 42 | 41 | 52 | 29 | 36 | 27 | 33 | 39.6 | 15.3 | 23 | 7.7 |
Diarrhœa | 108 | 154 | 129 | 110 | 145 | 112 | 107 | 126 | 99 | 181 | 127.1 | 49.2 | 71 | 23.7 |
Totals, Kensington | 369 | 545 | 539 | 383 | 290 | 388 | 372 | 498 | 339 | 573 | 429.6 | 166.3 | 348 | 116.1 |
Totals, London | 17,431 | 16,476 | 19,455 | 12,669 | 11,385 | 11,230 | 13,411 | 12,565 | 12,365 | 14,734 | 14,175 | 181 | 12,256 | 143 |
TOTALS,* ENGLAND & WALES, 10 years, 1868—77 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | Average 10 years 1868-77. | 1868—77 | 1878 | 1878 |
97,352 | 90,380 | 100,497 | 103,801 | 91,743 | 89,286 | 88,200 | 82,332 | 75,506 | 66,558 | 88,565 | 174 | 84,624 | 156 | |
* The Totals for England and Wales are for the ten years 1868-77, as compared with 1878, the latest year of publication. |