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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 1880

[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 1880.

TABLE III.

Deaths registered at several groups of ages from different causes during the year 1880.

Cause of Death. Classes of Diseases.AGES.Total.Males and Females.
0 to 11 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 Diseases81352220861261440...13819995104
II. Constitutional Diseases319101721302217141740. . .501929597
III. Local Diseases852719181715354860844912...131469235234
IV. Developmental Diseases981321...1117281421131688286
V. Violent Deaths422333...14310...8261115
Totals...............2998655594955707280 |115862624401054518536
I. Zymotic Diseases.
Order 1.—Miasmatic.
Measles...104..............................141477
Scarlet Fever1226...........................51165
Diptheria...112...........................2413
Quinsy.....................1..................1...1
Whooping Cough3019106...........................59653134
Typhus......1..............................11...1
Typhoid Fever.........2432...11............1367
Simple Continued Fever......2..................1.........2321
Erysipelas......1.........2.........1.... . .1422