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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 1879
[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 1879, and 10 years preceding.
Birth Rate per 1,000
of the population.
Annual Rate of
Mortality per 1,ooo
living,
Deaths of Children
under 1 year ; per
centage of Total
Deaths.
Per centage of deaths
of Children under 1
year to Registered
Births.
Deaths of Children
under 5 years ; per
centage of Total
Deaths.
Total Number of
Death in Public
Institutions.
1879
38
25.9
25
17
45.7
250
1878
36
24.7
25
16
45
255
1877
35
25.0
24
16
45
269
1876
37
24.5
29
17
53
250
1875
37
25.8
28
19
47
204
1874
36
21.0
25
16
46
176
1873
36
23.0
27
19
50
200
1872
35
19.0
29
15
52
190
1871
34
21.0
26
16
48
190
1870
35
21.0
28
17
50
190
1869
32
25.0
28
22
57
190
Average
of 10 yrs.
1869-78.
35.3
23.00
26.9
17.3
49.3
211.4