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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

Lewisham 1879

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: TABLE III.Deaths registered at several groups of ages from different causes during the year 1879.

TABLE III.

Deaths registered at several groups of ages from different causes during the year 1879.

Cause of Death. Classes.AGES.Total.Males and Females.
0 to 1l to 22 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to 5555 to 6565 to 7575 to 8585 to 9595 & upwards.Total under 5 years
M.F.
I. Zymotic Diseases4225241341245212......1256659
II. Constitutional Diseases2114141022313923131811.........216109107
III. Local Diseases902214892327337079448...427213214
IV. Developmental Diseases9015...113......11419194...1677295
A . Violent Deaths42.........1112112......1596
Not specified, or ill defined84.........1........................13310
Totals255825232366069619111476314...963472491
I. Zymotic Diseases.
Order 1.—Miasmatic.
891041...........................321616
Scarlet Fever433•...........1...............114i
Diptheria...31..............................431
Croup212.................................523
Whooping Cough81042..............................241014
Typhus.........1..............................11...
Enteric Typhoid Fever......122...1...1...............743
Continued Fever......1............1..................2...2
Erysipelas2.....................1...1.........431