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Lewisham 1889

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]

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TABLE IV.
Showing the Number of Deaths at all ages in 1889, from certain
groups of I 'Disenses, and proportions to 1,000 of Population, and
to 1,000 Deaths from all causes ; also the Number of Deaths
of Infants under one year of age From other groups of Dianases,
and projections to 1,000 Buths and to 1,000Deaths from all
causes under one year.
Division I.
(Adults).
Total
deaths
Deaths per
l.ooo of
Population,
at all ages
Deaths per
1,ooo of
Total
Deaths at
all ages.
1. Principal Zymotic Diseases
173
29
127
2. pulmonary diseases
350
5.8
257
3. Principal Tubercular Diseases
158
2.6
116
Division II.
(Infantsunder One Year).
Total
Deaths
Deaths per
1,000 of
Births
Deaths per
l,000 of
Total Deaths
under l yr.
1. Waiting Diseases
96
45
281
5. Convulsions Diseases
0.
30
179
NOT ICE
1. Includes Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria,
Whooping Cough, Typhus, Eteric (ur Typhoid), and
Simple Continued Fevers, and Diarrlnea ; Thirty seven
of the deaths occured in Hspitals situated beyond the
limits of the District.
3. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Tuberculosis, Rickets and
Tabes.
4. Includes Maresmus, Atrophy, Debility, Want of Breast
Milk, and Permature Birth.
5. Includes Hydrocephalus, Infantile Meningitis,
sions, and Teething.