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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 1884

[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, 1874 to 1883, from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases,and the number in 1884.

TABLE V.

Showing the number of Deaths in the 10 years, 1874 to 1883, from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases,

and the number in 1884.

Disease.1874.1875.1876.1877.1878.1879.1880.1881.1882.1883.Annual Average of 10 years, 1874—1883.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1874—1883.1884.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1884.
Smallpox .........00135003501.71.710.9
Measles25534613321417232419.319.34137.0
Scarlet Fever611301432111125121817.017.087.2
Diphtheria .........481148441521169.59.51210.8
"Whooping Cough2517441847246513282430.530.55246.8
Fever152320221091719101015.515.51210.8
Diarrhoea3940453941144139222634.634.63127.9
Total11410418510615694152131121118128.1128.1157141.4
London1122013411125651229218220123101368113906135331080113193.9163.313633164.1
Total Deaths from all causes7660681513774117700283695855408112881071829058057880744.9......83050......
England and Wales8509479259732176445482473601578253758239721885897271659 0140.08......
Total Deaths from all causes526701546317510308500348539574528194528056491813516654522662521062.7............

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* The figures in this column are the numbers enumerated at the Census in April,
1881, and raised to the middle of 1884 by the addition of 3¼ times the annual rate
of increase that prevailed between 1871 and 1881.