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Lewisham 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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TABLE V.
Showing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 10 years, 1888 to 1897
and in the Year 1898.
Disease.
1888.
1889.
1890.
1891.
1892.
1893.
1894.
1895.
1896.
1897.
Annual
Average
of 10 years,
1888—1897.
Proportion
of Deaths
to 1000
Deaths in
10 years,
1888—1897.
Total
Deaths
in 1898.
Proportion
of Deaths
to 1000
Deaths
in 1898.
Smallpox
0
0
0
0
0
5
0
0
0
0
0.5
0.3
1
0.6
Measles
18
21
34
30
15
19
54
13
42
21
26.7
19.3
44
26.3
Scarlet Fever
7
9
4
3
4
12
12
9
11
9
8.0
5.8
9
5.4
Diphtheria
37
5
11
10
17
53
35
17
82
43
31.0
22.5
29
17.4
Whooping Cough
76
23
53
29
67
10
54
36
26
29
40.3
29.3
35
21.0
Fever—
Typhus
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Enteric
11
6
5
2
4
10
15
9
10
10
8.2
5.9
6
3.6
Simple continued
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Diarrhœa
25
34
29
24
40
42
32
72
87
106
49.1
35.7
178
106.5
Totals
174
98
136
98
147
151
202
156
258
218
163
118.8
302.
180.8
Totals—London
10896
9785
12090
9675
11983
12851
11544
11545
14098
15410
12561
Totals—England
and Wales
50684
61027
59698
53221
56032
73496
52771
66936
67051
69714