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Fulham 1904

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham]

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During the past 10 years the deaths and death-rates from
the seven principal zymotic diseases have been as under:—

Table: DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE FROM ZYMOTIC DISEASES.To the seven principal zymotic diseases 380 deaths were ascribed, viz:—TABLE VIII.

DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE FROM ZYMOTIC DISEASES.

To the seven principal zymotic diseases 380 deaths were ascribed, viz:—

TABLE VIII.

Smallpox—
Measles64
Scarlet Fever4
Whooping Cough58
Diphtheria24
Enteric Fever6
Diarrhoea224
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The zymotic death-rate of the County of London was in 1904
214 per 1,000, the average rate in the decennium 1894-1903 being
2.47 per 1,000. Among the various metropolitan boroughs the
lowest rates were 0.60 in the City of London, 0.66 in Hampstead,
0.87 in Westminster, and 113 in Stoke Newington; while the
highest rates were 3.13 in Southwark, 3.20 in Shoreditch 3.35 in
Poplar, and 3.52 in Bermondsey.
In England and Wales the death-rate from these diseases
was 1.94 per 1,000, and in the 70 great towns it averaged 2.49
Distribution of Deaths from Zymotic Diseases.
The following table gives the death-rate in each ward from the
several zymotic diseases.
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