London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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St James's 1878

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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The following is a Table of Deaths from Zymotic Disease for the last 24 Years.

185518561857185818591860186118621863186418651866186718681869187018711872187318741875187618771878
Small Pox35....441121..2132..31861....131
Measles7513103881792429171917111413624201421819
Scarlet Feverand Dipth.2716132931163266311320309313975146..131914720
Whpg. Cough60262618223447332229172134214312193018142814719
Diarrhœa11153112205101320151519181713262828291121191321
Typhus and Typhoid Fev.221210161321381410776107489637129
Cholera......................8........1..............
Total1307993701218010913512610081105888811913690102774575765089

During the 23 years, 1855—77, inclusive, the deaths from Zymotics were 2,099, being an average yearly mortality of 91.26, in a
population estimated at 33,500. The mortality from Zymotics in the year 1878 was 89.
The Table on the page which follows shows the Zymotic and some other deaths in each quarter of the year 1878.