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.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the Principal Zymotic Diseases in the ten years
Diseases. | 1877. | 1878. | 1879. | 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | Annual Average of ten years 1877-86. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in ten years 1877-86. | 1887. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1887. | |
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Small Pox | |||||||||||||||
Measles | |||||||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | 7 | ||||||||||||||
Diphtheria | 8 | 25 | |||||||||||||
Whooping.Cough | 81 | ||||||||||||||
Typhus Fever | — | – | |||||||||||||
Enteric Fever | 26 | 14 | 2.5 | 26 | 12 | ||||||||||
Simple Continued Fever | 4 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
Diarrhoea | 181 | 80 | 110 | 86 | 36.2 | 124 | |||||||||
TOTALS. | Kensington | 573 | 348 | 383 | 251 | 361 | 280 | 369.4 | 132.8 | 416 | |||||
London | 12392 | 14734 | 12256 | 13681 | 13811 | 13553 | 13629 | 11261 | 11121 | 12723 | 155.5 | ||||
England & Wales | 66528 | 84624 | 62020 | 62020 | 58239 | 69734 | 58972 | 57726 | |62859 | 67500 | 129 |