London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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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 1883

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: TABLE V.Showing the number of Deaths in the 10 years, 1873 to 1882, from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases,and the number in 1883.

TABLE V.

Showing the number of Deaths in the 10 years, 1873 to 1882, from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases,

and the number in 1883.

Disease.1873.1874.1875.1876.1877.1878.1879.1880.1881.1882.Annual Average of 10 years, 1873—1882.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1873—1882.1883.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1883.
Smallpox00013500361.71.800.0
Measles11255346133214172318018.52422.8
Scarlet Fever106113014321111251216.216.718171
Diphtheria74811484415218.68.81615.2
Whooping Cough1925174418472465132830.030.82422.8
Fever91523202210917191015.415.8109.5
Diarrhœa2939404539411441392234.935.92624.7
Total8511410418510615694152131121124.8128.3118112.1
London1138511220134111256512292182201231013681139061353313252.3165.610801134.0
Total Deaths from all causes7545976606815137741177002836958554081128810718290580000.3.....80578......
England and Wales6805785094792597321764454824736015782537582397218872567.5140.0858972112.83
Total Deaths from all causes492320526701546317510308500348539574528194528056491813516654518028.5.....522662......

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* The figures in this column are the numbers enumerated at the Census in April,
1881, raised to the middle of 1883 by the addition of 2| times the annual rate of increase
that prevailed between 1871 and 1881.