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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Shewing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Zymotic Diseases in the ten years 1876-85, and in the year 1886.
Diseases. | 1876. | 1877. | 1878. | 1879. | 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | Annual Average of ten years 1876-85 | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in ten years 1876-85. | 1886. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1886. | |
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Small Pox | 8 | 84 | 24 | 24 | 11 | 55 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 25 | *25.8 | 9.2 | 0 | 0 | |
Measles | 128 | 54 | 53 | 60 | 75 | 67 | 77 | 39 | 32 | 111 | 69.6 | 24.9 | 56 | 20.3 | |
Scarlet Fever | 59 | 31 | 77 | 51 | 105 | 38 | 62 | 28 | 18 | 7 | 47.6 | 17.1 | 11 | 3.9 | |
Diphtheria | 17 | 10 | 20 | 26 | 22 | 8 | 25 | 24 | 17 | 22 | 19.1 | 6.8 | 30 | 10.9 | |
Whooping-Cough | 124 | 34 | 185 | 93 | 95 | 85 | 119 | 44 | 81 | 98 | 95.8 | 34.3 | 82 | 30.0 | |
Typhus Fever | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | |
Enteric Fever | 27 | 20 | 26 | 14 | 24 | 22 | 25 | 30 | 26 | 12 | 22.6 | 8.0 | 11 | 3.9 | |
Simple Continued Fever | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4.6 | 1.7 | 0 | 0 | |
Diarrhœa | 126 | 99 | 181 | 71 | 128 | 101 | 61 | 80 | 110 | 86 | 104.3 | 37.3 | 90 | 32.6 | |
TOTALS. . | Kensington | 498 | 339 | 573 | 348 | 469 | 383 | 376 | 251 | 314 | 361 | 391.2 | 140.0 | 280 | 101.6 |
London | 12565 | 12392 | 14734 | 12256 | 13681 | 13811 | 13553 | 10801 | 13629 | 11261 | 12868 | 158.0 | 11121 | 135.0 | |
England &Wales | 75506 | 66558 | 84624 | 62020 | 82537 | 58239 | 69734 | 58972 | 71762 | 57726 | 68767 | 132.0 | 62859 | 117.0 |