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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 1877
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TABLE II
Shewing the Annual Birth Rate, Rate of Mortality
Death Rates among Children, and Deaths in Public Institutions,
for the Year 1877. and 8 Years preceding.
Birth Rale per 1,000
of the population
Annual Rale of
Mortality per 1.,000
living.
Deaths of Chidren
under 1 year : per
per centage of total
Deaths
Per centage of death
Of Children under 1
year to Registered
Births
Death of Children
under 5 years
percentage of Total
Death.
Total Number of
Deaths in public Institutions
1877
35
25
24
16
45
269
1876
37
24.5
29
17
53
250
1875
37
25.8
28
19
47
204
1874
36
21
25
16
46
176
1873
36
23
27
19
50
200
1872
35
19
29
15
52
I90
1871
34
21
26
16
48
I90
1870
35
21
28
17
50
190
1869
32
25
28
22
57
190
Average of 8 years
1869-1876
35
22.5
27
17.6
50.3
199