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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1875
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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TABLE II.
| DISTRICTS. | Deaths from all causes | Small-pox. | Measles- | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Fevers. | Diarrhœa. | Total of Zymotic Deaths. | Deduct Strangers Deaths in Hospitals. | Zymotic Percentage excluding Strangers Deaths. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Simple continued | |||||||||||||
| Males. | Females | Persons. | |||||||||||||
| Waterloo rd. 1st part | 175 | 183 | 358 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | ... | 16 | 59 | ... | 16.95 |
| Ditto 2nd „ | 190 | 168 | 358 | 3 | 6 | 21 | ... | 8 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 56 | ... | 16.00 |
| Lambeth Ch. 1st part | 422 | 337 | 759 | 14 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 17 | 78 | 10 | 13.10 |
| Ditto 2nd „ | 564 | 503 | 1067 | 8 | 13 | 20 | 2 | 19 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 40 | 115 | ... | 10.77 |
| Kennington 1st part | 425 | 404 | 829 | 22 | 19 | 22 | 6 | 20 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 40 | 147 | ... | 17.73 |
| Ditto 2nd „ | 253 | 281 | 534 | 19 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 102 | ... | 19.10 |
| Brixton | 608 | 559 | 1167 | 290 | 16 | 61 | 6 | 21 | 16 | 59 | ... | 35 | 504 | 241 | 29.02 |
| Norwood | 120 | 137 | 257 | 9 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | ... | ... | ... | 12 | 57 | ... | 22.18 |
| Total Lambeth | 2757 | 2572 | 5329 | 371 | 107 | 164 | 32 | 119 | 23 | 90 | 17 | 195 | 1118 | 251 | 18.03 |
| Deduct strangers | 519 | 150 | 41 | 1 | ... | 16 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 251 | ... | ... | |||
| Lambeth cases | 4810 | 221 | 107 | 123 | 31 | 119 | 7 | 50 | 16 | 193 | 867 | ... | 1803 | ||
The above Table gives the mortality from Scarlet Fever in the several Districts of Lambeth in each year since 1850, and the
per centage, the total bears yearly to the total Deaths from all causes.
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