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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 1892

[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 1882 to 1891, and in the year 1892.

TABLE V.

TABLE showing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases in the Ten Years 1882 to 1891, and in the year 1892.

DISEASE.1882.1883.1884.1885.1886.1887.1888.1889.1890.1891.Annual Average of 10 years, 1882—1891.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 10 years, 1882-1891.1892.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 Deaths in 1892.
Smallpox0001100100010.6——
Measles71373163663366117774624.78137.8
Scarlet Fever2239208113514867179.1177.9
Diphtheria153728252827753945273518.53214.9
Whooping Cough724648595519742682675529.32913.5
Fever20161721171015161117168.673.3
Diarrhœa414864659263386362766132.78238.3
TOTALSPaddington241223208252269187283163283201231123..6248115.8
London13,55310,80113,62911,26111,12112,68410,8039,70912,2799,67511,552139.811,983136.
England & Wales69,73458,97271,76257,72662,85964,67650,68461,02759,69853,22161,036114.3——

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* Died in North Western Fever Hospital.
† Died in Western Fever Hospital.
|| Died in St. Mary's Hospital.
¶ Died in King's College Hospital.