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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
Lewisham 1887
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TABLE II.
Shewing the Annual Birth and Death Rates, Death Rates of Children,
and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand
Deaths for the Year 1887, and 10 Years preceding.
In the Year.
Birth Rates per 1,000
of the Population.
Corrected Deaths Rates
per 1,000 of the Population.
Deaths of Children tinder
1 ymr ; per 1.000 of
Registered Births.
Deaths of Children under
1 year; per 1.000 of
Total Deaths.
Deaths at Children under
year; per 1,000 of
Total Deaths.
Deaths in Public
Institlutions: per 1,000 of
Total Deaths.
1887
35.0
24.7
176
260
431
240
1886
34.4
25.0
178
244
442
170
1885
36.0
25.4
162
230
420
252
1884
37.0
23.3
139
224
425
181
1883
38.0
25.0
165
250
464
166
1882
38.8
25.0
150
240
470
161
1881
37.0
24.3
148
232
417
180
1880
38.0
26.2
170
240
475
162
1879
36.0
25.9
170
250
457
160
1878
35.0
24.7
160
250
450
171
1877
37.0
25.0
160
240
450
177
Average
of 10 yrs.
1877-86.
36.7
24.9
160
240
447
178