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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 V.Showing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 10 years, 1870 to 1879, and in the year 1880.

TABLE V.

Showing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 10 years, 1870 to 1879, and in the year 1880.

Disease.1870187118721873187418751876187718781879Annual Average of 10 years. 1870-1879.Proportion of Deaths to a 1000 Deaths in 10 years. 1870-1879.1880Proportion of Deaths to 1000 Deaths in 1880.
Smallpox341108300138963232.2232013
Measles1230406536203671314939.0283724
Scarlet Fever43181919105484320167140.22911273
Diphtheria442441459114.83.485
Whooping Cough4447497030793147814352.1376240
Fever2118131926152222211819.5141711
Diarrhœa7367648545776566644465.046.75636
Total231294195265246240214320285238252.8181.1312202
London164761945512699113851123013411125651236514734122561365717313681168