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Paddington 1889
[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
1879 to 1888, and in the year 1889.
DISEASE.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1887.
1888.
Annual
Average
of
10 years,
1879—1888.
Proportion
of Deaths
to 1,000
Deaths in
10 years,
1879-1888.
1889.
Proportion
of Deaths
to 1,000
Deaths in
1889.
Smallpox
3
0
7
0
0
0
11
0
0
1
2
1.2
0
0
Measles
29
41
20
71
37
31
63
66
33
66
46
25.2
11
6.6
Scarlet Fever
67
40
23
22
39
20
8
11
35
14
28
15.4
8
4.8
Diphtheria
26
15
14
15
37
28
25
28
27
75
29
16.0
39
23.4
Whooping Cough
61
49
53
72
46
48
59
55
19
74
54
29.6
26
15.6
Fever
19
16
23
20
16
17
21
17
10
15
17
9.6
16
9.6
Diarrhœa
38
67
66
41
48
64
65
92
63
38
58
32.2
63
37.9
TOTALS.
Paddington
243
228
206
241
223
208
252
269
187
283
234
129.2
163
98.0
London
12,256
13,681
13,811
13,553
10,801
13,629
11,261
11,121
12,684
10,803
12,360
151.0
9,709
128.3
England & Wales
62,020
82,537
i
58,239
69,734
58,972
71,762
57,726
62,859
64,676
50,684
63,921
122.4
61,027
117.8