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

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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

St Martin-in-the-Fields 1885

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]

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Table: Showing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases in the ten years, 1875to1884,and in the year1885.

Showing the Number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases in the ten years, 1875to1884,and in the year1885.

DISEASE.1875187618771878187918801881188218831884Annual average of 10 years, 1875.1884.Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 deaths in 10 years, 1875.1884.1885Proportion of Deaths to 1,000 deaths in 1885.
Small-pox...1............1.........0.20.4......
Measles255355772787.415.6921.1
Scarlet Fever134...51412123516914.512.3
Diphtheria2......184714544 59.537.0
Whooping Cough1311512122071321310.822.7716.4
Fever748775165677.215.149.0
Diarrhœa1918812717107111412.325.9614.1
Total5643264053636049564749.3103.73069.9