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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 1879

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Table: 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.

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.
Smallpox2215331.5
Measles119139272915.0
Scarlet Fever1083532426734.6
Diphtheria9911162613.4
Whooping Cough636069746131.5
Fever22191126199.8
Diarrhœa687050523819.6
Total283286227240243125.3
London17,47616,48919,45412,72211,22611,32713,41112,56512,29214,73114,169181.412,256143.3
England & Wales91,379100,527103,80191,74370,40288,20082,33375,50666,55884,62485,507166.6Not published.
* Enteric (Typhoid), 16; Simple continued Fever, 3.