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Rotherhithe 1881

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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VARIOUS TABLES OF MORTALITY.
Table showing 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, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Fever, Diarrhoea, Cholera, and
Violence; and Deaths in Public Institutions registered in Rotherhithe, during the 52
Weeks ending Saturday, 31st December, 1881.
TABLE III.
Enumerated Population,
1881.
Total Births in 52 weeks.
Total Deaths in 52 weeks.
The Deaths Registered in the Fifty-two weeks include
Deaths of
Deaths from
Inquest Cases.
Deaths in Public
Institutions.
Uncertified
Infants under
1 year old.
Persons aged 60
years & upwards.
Small Pox.
Measles.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Whooping Cough
Typhus Fever.
Enteric (or Typhoid)
Fever,
Simple continued
F ever.
Diarrhoea
Cholera
Violence.
40910
1406
855
202
153
21
53
20
6
9
2
11
-
24
2
36
53
168
16
Table shewing the Mortality from certain classes of Diseases, and proportions to
Population, and to 1000 Deaths, 1881.
TABLE IV.
Total Deaths.
Deaths per 1000
of Population.
Proportion of Deaths
to 1000 Deaths.
1.
Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases
146
3.2
169.1
2.
Pulmonary Diseases
(other than Phthisis)
193
4.2
225.1
3.
Tubercular Diseases
135
3.1
157.1
4.
Wasting Diseases of
Infants
65
1.2
76.1
5.
Convulsive Diseases of
Infants
61
1.2
75.5