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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 1880

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]

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Table: 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.

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 1,000living.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.
18803826.2241747.5250
18793625.9251745.7250
18783524.7251645.0255
18773725.0241645.0269
18763724.5291753.0250
18753625.8281947.0204
18743621.0251646.0176
18733523.0271950.0200
18723419.0291552.0190
18713521.0261648.0190
18703221.0281750.0190
Average of 10 yrs. 1870-79.35.323.026.616.848.1217