Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TABLE II.
Showing the Annual Birth Rate, Rate of Mortality, Death
Rates among Children, and Deaths in Public Institutions,
for the year 1880, and 10 years preceding.
Birth Rate per 1,000
of the population.
Annual Rate of
Mortality per 1,000
living.
Deaths of Children
under 1 year; per
centage of Total
Deaths.
Percentage of deaths
of Children under 1
year to Registered
Births.
Deaths of Children
under 5 years ; per
centage of Total
Deaths.
Total Number of
Deaths in Public
Institutions.
1880
38
26.2
24
17
47.5
250
1879
36
25.9
25
17
45.7
250
1878
35
24.7
25
16
45.0
255
1877
37
25.0
24
16
45.0
269
1876
37
24.5
29
17
53.0
250
1875
36
25.8
28
19
47.0
204
1874
36
21.0
25
16
46.0
176
1873
35
23.0
27
19
50.0
200
1872
34
19.0
29
15
52.0
190
1871
35
21.0
26
16
48.0
190
1870
32
21.0
28
17
50.0
190
Average
of 10 yrs.
1870-79.
35.3
23.0
26.6
16.8
48.1
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