Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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. |
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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. |