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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: TABLE V.Shewing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 8 years 1869 to 1876, and in the Year 1877.

TABLE V.

Shewing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 8 years 1869 to 1876, and in the Year 1877.

Disease.18691870187118721873187418751876Annual Average of 8 years. 1869—1876.Porportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 8 years. 1869 — 1876.18 77Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1877.
Smallpox293411083001324.618.08958
Measles271230406536203633.224.57147
Scarlet Fever15243181919105484356.041.32013
Diphtheria944244144.03.053.3
Whooping Cough894447497030793155.040.64731
Fever122118131926152218.013.42214.5
Diarrhoea657367648545776568.050.06643.5
Total383231294195265246240214258.8190.8320210.3
London174131647619455126991138511230I3411125651432919812292159
England & Wales9735290380IOO49703801917438928696279:8233293958197--