[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham] page 96

Lewisham 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]

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Table: TABLE V.Showing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 10 years, 1888 to 1897and in the Year 1898.

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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	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......
Enteric	11	6	5	2	4	10	15	9	10	10	8.2	5.9	6	3.6
Simple continued	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......	......
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