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 1882.91, and in the year 1892.
Diseases. | 1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | 1890. | 1891. | Annual Average of ten years 1882-91. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in ten years 1882-91. | Deaths in 1892. | Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1892. | |
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Small.pox | 0 | 1 | 26 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | 1.9 | 0 | 0.0 | |
Measles | 77 | 39 | 32 | 111 | 56 | 108 | 124 | 14 | 140 | 29 | 73.0 | 26.5 | 109 | 37.9 | |
Scarlet Fever | 62 | 28 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 44 | 26 | 28 | 26 | 16 | 26 6 | 9.7 | 36 | 12.5 | |
Diphtheria | 25 | 24 | 17 | 22 | 30 | 40 | 89 | 111 | 35 | 28 | 42.1 | 15.3 | 31 | 10.7 | |
Whooping.cough | 119 | 44 | 81 | 98 | 82 | 86 | 100 | 26 | 93 | 84 | 81.3 | 29.5 | 63 | 21.9 | |
Typhus Fever | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | o | 0.3 | ... | 0 | 0.0 | |
Enteric Fever | 25 | 30 | 26 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 21 | 19 | 15 | 24 | 19 4 | 7 0 | 15 | 5.2 | |
Simp. Continued Fever | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | T8 | 0.6 | 2 | o.o | |
Diarrhoea | 61 | 80 | 110 | 86 | 90 | 124 | 58 | 71 | 78 | 91 | 84.9 | 30.8 | 77 | 26.8 | |
TOTALS. | Kensington. | 376 | 251 | 314 | 361 | 280 | 416 | 420 | 269 | 387 | 273 | 334.7 | 121.3 | 333 | 115 |
London. | 13553 | 10801 | 13629 | 11261 | 11121 | 12684 | 10803 | 9709 | 12279 | 9675 | 11551 | 132.7 | 11983 | 136 | |
England & Wales | 69734 | 58972 | 71762 | 57726 | 62859 | 64676 | 50684 | 61027 | 59698 | 53221 | 61035 | 114.3 | 56032 | 100 |