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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 1884
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]
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22
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The following Table shows the mortality from Zymotic diseases in the Parish arranged so as to
compare the mortality of different years (strangers deducted in each year except 1874-5-6.
1884
1883
1882
1881
1880
1879
1878
1877
1876
1875
1874
Small Pox
25
12
17
97
13
13
138
221
8
12
5
Measles
273
155
173
122
143
117
95
171
89
82
72
Scarlet Fever
60
86
96
136
228
201
87
123
274
189
31
Diphtheria
71
58
48
37
48
60
63
42
27
46
47
Whooping Cough
209
126
342
119
275
229
342
89
174
272
89
Typhus
1
4
8
5
3
3
13
23
10
11
69
Enteric Fever
45
41
52
68
45
39
66
71
63
84
83
Diarrhœa
239
160
142
194
243
132
243
118
220
221
174