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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 1899

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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Table: TABLE V.Table showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Ten Years 1889 to 1898, and in the Year 1899.

TABLE V.

Table showing the Number of Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the Ten Years 1889 to 1898, and in the Year 1899.

DISEASE.1889.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.1898.Annual Average of 10 years, 1889—98.Total Deaths in 1899Death rates per 1,000 Persons 1899.
Uncorrected.Corrected and Adjusted.
Smallpox............43...1......0.81......
Measles117778130661810328948.45240.03
Scarlet Fever867173013142220814.51670.06
Diphtheria3945273269924967656454.960290.22
Whooping Cough2682672959442047404545.950430.33
Fever.Typhus..........................................
Enteric16101771923151461714.414100.08
Simple Continued1..................21...0.40......
Diarrhœa63627682654591661079274.9791100.85
Totals163283201248276286207322241315254.22722031.57