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
1880 to 1889, and in the year 1890.
| Disease. | 1880. | 1881. | 1882. | 1883. | 1884. | 1885. | 1886. | 1887. | 1888. | 1889. | Annual Average of 10 years, 1880—1889. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 10 years, 1880-1889. | 1890. | Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1890. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Measles | 41 | 20 | 71 | 37 | 31 | 63 | 66 | 33 | 66 | 11 | 44 | 246 | 77 | 36.6 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 40 | 23 | 22 | 39 | 20 | 8 | 11 | 35 | 14 | 8 | 22 | 12.3 | 6 | 2.9 | |
| Diphtheria | 15 | 14 | 15 | 37 | 28 | 25 | 28 | 27 | 75 | 39 | 30 | 17.0 | 45 | 21.4 | |
| Whooping Cough | 49 | 53 | 72 | 46 | 48 | 59 | 55 | 19 | 74 | 26 | 50 | 28.1 | 82 | 39.0 | |
| Fever | 16 | 23 | 20 | 16 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 9.6 | 11 | 5.2 | |
| Diarrhœa | 67 | 66 | 41 | 48 | 64 | 65 | 92 | 63 | 38 | 63 | 61 | 34.1 | 62 | 29.5 | |
| TOTALS. | Paddington | 228 | 206 | 241 | 223 | 208 | 252 | 269 | 187 | 283 | 163 | 226 | 126.8 | 283 | 134.5 |
| London | 13,681 | 13,811 | 13,553 | 10,801 | 13,629 | 11,261 | 11,121 | 12,684 | 10,803 | 9,709 | 12,105 | 149.2 | 12,279 | 134.6 | |
| England & Wales | 82,537 | 58,239 | 69,734 | 58,972 | 71,762 | 57,726 | 62,859 | 64,676 | 50,684 | 61,027 | 63,822 | 122. | 59,698 | 106. | |