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 Lewisham]
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TABLE III.
Deaths registered at several groups of ages from different causes during the year 1876.
Cause of Death.
Classes.
AGES.
Total.
Males and
Females.
0
to
1
l
to
2
2
to
5
5
to
15
15
to
25
25
to
35
35
to
45
45
to
55
55
to
65
65
to
75
75
to
85
85
to
95
95
& upwards.
Total
under
5 years
M.
F.
I. Zymotic Diseases
75
40
45
22
13
9
6
7
2
3
2
...
160
224
119
105
II. Constitutional Diseases
16
4
7
6
17
31
21
25
16
6
5
...
...
27
154
86
68
III. Local Diseases
85
40
11
13
12
19
27
53
62
68
41
6
...
136
437
211
226
IV. Developmental Diseases
92
15
1
...
...
2
1
...
1
3
20
21
1
108
157
83
74
V. Violent Deaths
3
...
1
1
...
...
2
1
2
...
1
...
...
4
11
10
1
Not specified, or ill defined
1
...
•••
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
1
1
...
Totals
272
99
65
42
42
61
57
86
83
80
69
27
1
436
984
510
474
I. Zymotic Diseases.
Order 1.—Miasmatic.
Small Pox
...
...
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
1
Measles
6
19
6
3
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
31
34
18
16
Scarlet Fever
1
3
16
7
...
2
1
...
...
...
...
...
20
30
17
13
Diptheria
...
3
4
4
• • •
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
11
8
3
Croup
1
...
2
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
3
5
2
3
"Whooping Cough
15
15
13
...
...
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
43
44
21
23
Typhoid Fever
1
• • •
2
2
8
1
3
2
...
...
...
...
...
3
19
9
10
Simple Continued Fever
...
• • •
• • •
1
...
• •
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
...
1
14