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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 1886

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: TABLE V.Showing the number of Deaths in the 10 year, 1870 to 1885, from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases,and the number in 1880.

TABLE V.

Showing the number of Deaths in the 10 year, 1870 to 1885, from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases,

and the number in 1880.

Disease.1876.1877.1878.1879.1880.1881.1882.1883.1884.1885.Annual Average of 10 years, 1876—1885Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 10 years, 1876.1886.1886.Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1886.
Smallpox13600350152.32 200.0
Measles346133214172324413824.423.454.3
Scarlet Fever30143211112512188016.115.443.4
Diphtheria114844152116121310.810.32521.7
Whooping Cough4418472465132824523935.433.932 127.2
Fever202210917191010121614.513.960.2
Diarrhœa4539411441392226313733.532.160521
Total18510615694152131121118157148137.0131.4132114.8
London1256512292182201231013681139061353310801136331126213220162.711202136.1
Total Deaths from all causes7741177002866958554081128810718290580578830508000081238......82257......
England and Wales7321764454824736015782537582397218858972717625772669075133.062859111.4
Total Deaths from all causes510308500348539574528194528056491813516654522662531951522517519207......537078......