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 Diseases of the Zymotic class in the ten years 1880-89, and in the year 1890.
Diseases. | 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | Annual Average of ten years 1880-89. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in ten years 1880-89. | Deaths in 1890. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1890. | |
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Small-pox | 11 | 55 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11.9 | 4.4 | 0 | 0.0 | |
Measles | 75 | 67 | 77 | 39 | 32 | 111 | 56 | 108 | 124 | 14 | 70.3 | 25.8 | 140 | 47.4 | |
Scarlet Fever | 105 | 38 | 62 | 28 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 44 | 26 | 28 | 36.7 | 13.5 | 26 | 8.8 | |
Diphtheria | 22 | 8 | 25 | 24 | 17 | 22 | 30 | 40 | 89 | 111 | 38.8 | 14.2 | 35 | 11.8 | |
Whooping-cough | 95 | 85 | 119 | 44 | 81 | 98 | 82 | 86 | 100 | 26 | 81.6 | 30.0 | 93 | 31.5 | |
Typhus Fever | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | |
Enteric Fever | 24 | 22 | 25 | 30 | 26 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 21 | 19 | 20.1 | 7.4 | 15 | 5.1 | |
Simple C'ntinu'd Fever | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
Diarrhœa | 128 | 101 | 61 | 80 | 110 | 86 | 90 | 124 | 58 | 71 | 90.9 | 33.4 | 78 | 26.4 | |
TOTALS. | Kensington | 469 | 383 | 376 | 251 | 314 | 361 | 280 | 416 | 420 | 269 | 353.9 | 130.0 | 387 | 131 |
London | 13681 | 13811 | 13553 | 10801 | 13629 | 11261 | 11121 | 12684 | 10803 | 9709 | 12105 | 149 | 12279 | 134 | |
England & Wales | 82537 | 58239 | 69734 | 58972 | 71762 | 57726 | 62859 | 64676 | 50684 | 61027 | 63821 | 122 | 59698 | 106 |
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