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
Kates among Children, and Deaths in Public Institutions,
for the year 1885, and 10 years preceding.
Birth rate pet 1,000
of the population.
Annual Rata of
Mortality per 1,000
living.
Deaths of Chfldren
under 1 year per
centage of Total
Deaths.
Per centage of Deaths
of Children under 1
Year to Reglstered
Births.
Deaths of Children
under 5 year: per
centage of Total
Deaths.
Total number of
Deaths in public
Institution.
1885
36.0
25.4
23.0
16.2
42.0
376
1884
37.0
23.3
22.4
13.9
42.5
249
1883
38.0
25.0
25.0
16.5
46.4
247
1882
38.8
25.0
24.0
15.0
47.0
237
1881
37.0
24.3
23.2
14.8
41.7
258
1880
38.0
26.2
24.0
17.0
47.5
250
1879
36.0
25.9
25.0
17.0
45.7
250
1878
35.0
24.7
25.0
16.0
45.0
255
1877
37.0
250
24.0
16.0
45.0
269
1876
37.0
24.5
29.0
17.0
53.0
250
1875
36.0
25.8
28.0
19.0
47.0
204
Average
of 10 yrs.
1875-84.
36.9
24.9
24.9
16.2
46.0
246.9