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 V.
Shewing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, in the 10 Yean, 1874 to 1883 and in the year 1884.
Disease. | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | 1877 | 1878 | 1879 | 1880 | 1881 | 1882 | 1883 | Annual Average of 10 years 1874-l883 | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 10 years. 1874-1883. | 1884 | Proportion of Deaths to l000 Deaths in 1884. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small pox | 0 | 0 | 13 | 80 | 63 | 2 | 20 | 42 | 17 | 6 | 25.2 | 17 | 29 | 21.1 |
Meaales | 36 | 30 | 30 | 71 | 31 | 49 | 37 | 52 | 25 | 57 | 41.4 | 28 | 7 | 5.1 |
Searlet Ferver | 105 | 48 | 43 | 30 | 16 | 71 | 112 | 22 | 65 | 84 | 58.6 | 39 | 74 | 54.0 |
Diphtheria | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 7.2 | 48 | 4 | 2.9 |
Whooping Cough | 30 | 79 | 31 | 47 | 81 | 43 | 62 | 41 | 113 | 30 | 55.7 | 37 | 52 | 38.0 |
Fever | 10 | 15 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 18 | 17 | 20 | 17 | 14 | 19.8 | 13 | 18 | 13.1 |
Piirrhœa | 45 | 77 | 65 | 66 | 64 | 44 | 50 | 55 | 42 | 45 | 55 9 | 37 | 53 | 38.7 |
Total | 246 | 240 | 214 | 320 | 285 | 238 | 312 | 246 | 283 | 251 | 263.8 | 175.8 | 237 | 172.9 |
London | 11230 | 13411 | 12565 I | 12365 | 14734 | 12256 | 13681 l | 13811 | 13553 | 10801 | 12840 | 159 | 13629 | 164 |
GEO. HURLOCK,
THOMAS STAGE,
Inspectors.