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 Rotherhithe]
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VARIOUS TABLES OF MORTALITY.
Table shewing Total Births, and Deaths; Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age,
and of Persons 60 years and upwards from all causes; and Deaths from Small-pox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diptheria, Whooping Cough, Fever, Diarrhœa, Cholera, and
Violence; and Deaths in Public Institutions registered in Rotherhithe, during the 52
Weeks ending Saturday, January 1st, 1881.
Enumerated Population,
1880.
Total Births in 52 weeks.
Total Deaths in 52 weeks.
The Deaths Registered in the Fifty-two weeks include
Deaths of
Deaths from
Infants under
1 year old.
Persons aged 60
years & upwards.
Small Pox.
Measles.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Whooping Cough
Typhus Fever.
Typhoid Fever.
Simple Fever.
Diarrhœa
Cholera
Violence.
Inquest Cases.
Deaths in Public
Institutions.
36425
1391
759
150
155
5
7
49
5
24
3
5
1
33
3
30
44
941
Table shewing the Mortality from certain classes of Diseases, and proportions to
Population, and to 1000 Deaths, 1880.
Total Deaths.
Deaths per 1000
of Population.
Proportion of Deaths
to 1000 Deaths.
1. Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases
132
3.6
173
2. Pulmonary Diseases
(other than Phthisis)
189
51
249
3. Tubercular Diseases
114
3.1
150
4. Wasting Diseases of
Infants
52
1.1
68
5. Convulsive Diseases of
Infants
54
1.2
71