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Paddington 1879
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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TABLE V.
TABLE showing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, in the ten years 1869 to 1878, and in the year 1879.
Disease.
1869.
1870.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
Annual
Average
of
10 years,
1869—1878.
Proportion
of Deaths
to 1,000
Deaths in
10 years,
1869—1878.
1879.
Proportion
of Deaths
to 1,000
Deaths in
1879.
Smallpox
2
2
15
3
3
1.5
Measles
11
91
39
27
29
15.0
Scarlet Fever
108
35
32
42
67
34.6
Diphtheria
9
9
11
16
26
13.4
Whooping Cough
63
60
69
74
61
31.5
Fever
22
19
11
26
19
9.8
Diarrhœa
68
70
50
52
38
19.6
Total
283
286
227
240
243
125.3
London
17,476
16,489
19,454
12,722
11,226
11,327
13,411
12,565
12,292
14,731
14,169
181.4
12,256
143.3
England & Wales
91,379
100,527
103,801
91,743
70,402
88,200
82,333
75,506
66,558
84,624
85,507
166.6
Not published.
* Enteric (Typhoid), 16; Simple continued Fever, 3.