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 1887.
Cause of Death.
AGES.
Total.
Males and
Females.
0
to
1
1
to
2
2
to
5
5
to
l0
15
to
25
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
55
25
25
9
5
4
7
1
1
2
4
...
...
105
138
72
66
II. Constitutional Diseases
11
13
11
16
20
26
31
16
12
13
4
• • •
• • •
35
173
100
73
III. Local Diseases
125
51
29
12
22
30
43
74
91
121
81
14
2
203
695
341
354
IV. Developmental Diseases
99
1
3
• • •
• • •
• • •
• • •
• • •
1
7
31
16
1
103
159
68
91
V. Violent Deaths
6
...
• • •
2
2
3
3
8
...
...
1
1
•••
6
26
16
10
Totals
296
| 90
68
39
49
63
84
99
105
143
121
31
3
452
1191
597
594
I. Zymotic Diseases.
Order 1.—Miasmatic.
Measles
6
15
17
2
• • •
• • •
• • •
• • •
...
• • •
...
...
...
38
40
22
18
Scarlet Fever
1
2
1
2
• • •
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
4
6
...
6
Whooping Cough
13
6
2
2
...
...
• • •
• • •
...
...
...
...
...
21
23
14
9
Diphtheria
3
...
4
1
...
1
1
...
...
...
...
...
...
7
10
6
4
Typhoid Fever
...
...
...
2
2
...
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
6
2
4
Diarrhœa
25
2
...
...
...
• • •
...
• • •
1
1
2
...
...
27
31
21
10
Erysipelas
3
• • •
...
...
...
...
2
...
...
1
2
...
...
3
9
4
5
Pyaemia
1
• • •
...
...
...
• • •
• • •
...
...
...
...
...
...
1
1
1
...
Puerperal Fever
• • •
• • •
...
• • •
3
3
2
• • •
•• •
...
...
...
...
...
8
...
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