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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

Paddington 1878

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Table: TABLE IV.Table shewing the Mortality from certain classes of Diseases, and proportions to Population, and to 1,000 Deaths, 1878.

TABLE IV.

Table shewing the Mortality from certain classes of Diseases, and proportions to Population, and to 1,000 Deaths, 1878.

Total DeathsDeath per 1,000 of Population.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths.
1. Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases2402.2136.85
2. Pulmonary Diseases ( other than Phthisis')8723.3211.24
3. Tubercular Diseases2031.8115.28
4. Wasting Diseases of Infants1201.168.14
5. Convulsive Diseases of Infants1061. 060.19