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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

Limehouse 1878

[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 9 years 1869 to 1877, and in the Year 1878.

TABLE V.

Shewing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 9 years 1869 to 1877, and in the Year 1878.

Disease.186918701871187218731874187518761877Annual Average of 9 years. 1869—1877.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 9 years. 1869—1877.1878Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1878.
Smallpox29341108300138931.7236342
Measles27123040653620367137.4273121
Scarlet Fever1524318191910548432052.0381610
Diphtheria9442441454.1396
Whooping Cough89444749703079314754.0408154
Fever1221181319261522229.7132114
Diarrhoea65736764854577656667.4496441
Total383231294195265246240214320285193285188
London1743116476194551269911385|112301341112565123651411318314734175