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 Diseases of the Zymotic Class in the ten years 1881-90, and in the year 1891.
Diseases. | 1881 | 1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | Annual Average of ten years 1881-90. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in ten years 1881-90. | Deaths in 1891. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1891. | |
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Small-pox | 55 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 108 | 4.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
Measles | 67 | 77 | 39 | 32 | 111 | 56 | 108 | 124 | 14 | 140 | 76.8 | 28.2 | 29 | 9.5 | |
Scarlet Fever | 38 | 62 | 28 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 44 | 26 | 28 | 26 | 288 | 10.6 | 16 | 5.2 | |
Diphtheria | 8 | 25 | 24 | 17 | 22 | 30 | 40 | 89 | 111 | 35 | 40.1 | 14.7 | 28 | 9.1 | |
Whooping-cough | 85 | 119 | 44 | 81 | 98 | 82 | 86 | 100 | 26 | 93 | 81.4 | 29.9 | 84 | 27.4 | |
Typhus Fever | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | |
Enteric Fever | 22 | 25 | 30 | 26 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 19.2 | 7.0 | 24 | 7.8 | |
Simple C'ntin'd Fever | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 1 | 0.0 | |
Diarrhœa | 101 | 61 | 80 | 110 | 86 | 90 | 124 | 58 | 71 | 78 | 85.9 | 31.5 | 91 | 29.7 | |
TOTALS. | Kensington | 383 | 376 | 251 | 314 | 361 | 280 | 416 | 420 | 269 | 387 | 345.7 | 126.7 | 273 | 88.7 |
London | 13811 | 13553 | 10801 | 13629 | 11261 | 11121 | 12684 | 10803 | 9709 | 12279 | 12965 | 151 | 9675 | 107 | |
England & Wales | 58239 | 69734 | 58972 | 71762 | 57726 | 62859 | 64676 | 50684 | 61027 | 59698 | 61537 | 117 | 53221 | 90 |