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 1886.
Cause of Death.
AGES.
Total.
Males and
Females.
0
to
1
1
to
2
2
to
5
5
to
15
15
to
2o
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
Classes of Diseases.
M.
F.
I. Zymotic Diseases
62
28
23
15
2
10
2
1
1
4
2
1
•••
113
151
81
70
II. Constitutional Diseases
20
10
11
9
23
18
20
24
25
17
4
1
...
41
182
98
84
III. Local Diseases
112
29
20
31
19
20
44
59
94
115
61
7
•••
161
611
302
309
IV. Developmental Diseases
86
3
1
•••
•••
•••
•••
• • •
3
14
40
17
4
90
169
69
100
V. Violent Deaths
8
2
2
3
4
•••
•••
4
2
1
2
...
•••
12
28
16
12
VI. Causes Ill-defined
1
...
...
...
1
2
...
3
2
...
•••
...
...
1
9
4
5
Totals
289
72
57
58
49
50
66
91
127
151
109
26
4
418
1150
570
580
I. Zymotic Diseases.
Order 1.—Miasmatic.
Measles
1
1
2
1
•••
...
•••
•••
•••
•••
...
•••
...
4
5
3
2
Scarlet Fever
...
1
2
1
...
...
•••
•••
...
...
...
...
...
3
4
3
1
Whooping Cough
13
11
6
2
...
•••
...
•••
•••
...
•••
...
...
30
32
17
15
Diphtheria
...
2
11
8
1
1
1
...
...
1
•••
...
...
13
25
12
13
Typhoid Fever
•••
•••
•••
2
1
1
•••
1
...
...
•••
...
...
...
5
1
4
Diarrhœa
43
10
2
•••
...
•••
•••
...
1
2
2
1
...
55
61
37
24
Erysipelas
...
1
...
...
...
1
...
...
•••
1
...
...
...
1
3
1
2
Pyæmia
...
1
...
1
...
1
•••
•••
•••
•••
...
...
...
1
3
3
...
Puerperal Fever
...
...
...
...
...
6
...
•••
...
• • •
...
...
...
...
6
...
6