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 from the Principal Zymotic Diseases in the 10 years 1874-83, and in the year 1884.
Diseases. | 1874. | 1875. | 1876. | 1877. | 1878. | 1879. | 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883. | Annual Average of ten years 1874-83. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years 1874-83. | 1884. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1884. | |
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Small Pox | 0 | 0 | 8 | 84 | 24 | 24 | 11 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 20.7 | 7.3 | 26 | 9.8 | |
Measles | 121 | 23 | 128 | 54 | 53 | 60 | 75 | 67 | 77 | 39 | 69.7 | 24.8 | 32 | 12.1 | |
Scarlet Fever | 32 | 83 | 59 | 31 | 77 | 51 | 105 | 38 | 62 | 28 | 56.6 | 19.2 | 18 | 6.8 | |
Diphtheria | 26 | 23 | 17 | 10 | 20 | 26 | 22 | 8 | 25 | 24 | 20.1 | 7.1 | 17 | 6.4 | |
Whooping Cough | 45 | 107 | 124 | 34 | 185 | 93 | 95 | 85 | 119 | 44 | 93.1 | 33.2 | 81 | 30.8 | |
Typhus Fever | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2.9 | 1.0 | — | — | |
Enteric Fever | 28 | 21 | 27 | 20 | 26 | 14 | 24 | 22 | 25 | 30 | 23.7 | 8.4 | 26 | 9.8 | |
Simple Continued Fever | 15 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 6.3 | 2.2 | 4 | 1.5 | |
Diarrhœa | 112 | 107 | 126 | 99 | 181 | 71 | 128 | 101 | 61 | 80 | 106.6 | 38.0 | 110 | 41.8 | |
TOTALS. | Kensington | 388 | 372 | 498 | 339 | 573 | 348 | 469 | 383 | 376 | 251 | 399.7 | 141.2 | 314 | 119 |
London | 11230 | 13411 | 12565 | 12392 | 14734 | 12256 | 13681 | 13811 | 13553 | 10801 | 12833 | 159 | 13629 | 164 | |
England & Wales | 88200 | 82332 | 75506 | 66558 | 84624 | 62020 | 82537 | 58239 | 69734 | 58972 | 72872 | 139 | 71762 | 135 |