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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 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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TABLE II.
Annual Rate of Mortality, Death Rites among Children, and
Deaths in Public Institutions.
Year.
Annual
Rate of
Mortality
per looo
living.
Death of
Children
under 1
year: per
centago to
Total
Deaths.
Perrentage
of Deaths
of Children
under 1
year to
Total
Birth.
Death of
Children
under 5
yearn: per
rentage to
Total
Deaths
Percentage
of Deaths
in Public
Institu
tiono to
Total
Deaths.
1892
14.89
24.50
14 .00
35.14
9.42
1891
14.62
21.80
11.74
83.21
12.17
1890
13.97
23.93
13 98
36.43
10.98
1889
12.39
26.11
12.67
87 .03
12.34
1888
13.43
24.06
12.66
38.58
9.21
1887
13.66
24.01
12.10
3812
11.50
1886
13.36
25.13
12.43
36.34
8.78
1885
13.75
26.15
12.03
39.09
8.99
1884
13.92
26.12
12.52
40.90
6.48
1883
13.56
29.18
13.12
39.83
6.08
1882
14.58
26.09
12.46
41.48
8.79
Average of
10 years,
1882—181)1
13.72
25.26
12.57
38.10
9.53