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 1879-88, and in the year 1889.
Diseases. | 1879. | 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | Annual Average of ten years 1879-88. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in ten years 1879-88. | 1889. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1889. | |
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Small Pox | 24 | 11 | 55 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14.3 | 5.2 | 0 | .0 | |
Measles | 60 | 75 | 67 | 77 | 39 | 32 | 111 | 56 | 108 | 124 | 74.9 | 27.0 | 14 | 5.8 | |
Scarlet Fever | 51 | 105 | 38 | 62 | 28 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 44 | 26 | 39.0 | 14.1 | 28 | 11.6 | |
Diphtheria | 26 | 22 | 8 | 25 | 24 | 17 | 22 | 30 | 40 | 89 | 30.3 | 10.9 | 111 | 46.0 | |
Whooping-Cough | 93 | 95 | 85 | 119 | 44 | 81 | 98 | 82 | 86 | 100 | 88.3 | 31.8 | 26 | 10.8 | |
Typhus Fever | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | |
Enteric Fever | 14 | 24 | 22 | 25 | 30 | 26 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 21 | 19.6 | 7.0 | 19 | 7.9 | |
Simple C'ntinu'd Fever | 8 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | |
Diarrhoea | 71 | 128 | 101 | 61 | 80 | 110 | 86 | 90 | 124 | 58 | 90.9 | 32.7 | 71 | 29.4 | |
TOTALS. | Kensington | 348 | 469 | 383 | 376 | 251 | 314 | 361 | 280 | 416 | 420 | 361.8 | 130.3 | 269 | 111.5 |
London | 12256 | 13681 | 13811 | 13553 | 10801 | 13629 | 11261 | 11121 | 12684 | 10803 | 12360 | 1510 | 9709 | 128.3 | |
England & Wales | 62020 | 82537 | 58239 | 69734 | 58972 | 71762 | 57726 | 62859 | 64676 | 50684 | 63920 | 122.4 | 61027 | 117.8 |