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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 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TABLE II.
Table 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 1889, and 10 Years preceding.
In the year.
Birth Rate per 1,000
of the population.
Corrected Death rate
per 1,000 of the
Population
Deaths of children under
1year: per 1,000 of
Registered births
Deaths of children under
1year: per 1,000 of
Total Deaths
Daths of Children
under 5 years: per 1,000
of Totslr Deaths.
Deaths in Public
Institution; per 1,000
of total deaths.
1889
35.0
22.7
159
246
427
342
1888
35.5
24.6
207
299
494
218
1887
35.0
24.7
176
250
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
Average
of 10 yrs.
1879-88.
36.5
24.9
166
245
449
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