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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
Stepney 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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The annual number of deaths from Measles since 1901, is as follows:—
| 1901 | 155 |
| 1902 | 158 |
| 1903 | 162 |
| 1904 | 176 |
| 1905 | 151 |
| 1906 | 171 |
| 1907 | |
| 1908 | 264 |
| 1909 | 236 |
| 1910 | 93 |
| 1911 | 291 |
| 1912 | 172 |
| 1913 | 95 |
| 1914 | 174 |
| 1915 | 113 |
| 1916 | 63 |
| 1917 | 103 |
| 1918 | 145 |
| 1919 | 14 |
Whooping Cough
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The number of deaths from Whooping Cough was 15, or 77 less than in the
previous year
4 belonged to the Limehouse District
1 belonged to St George-in-the-East
7 belonged to Mile End Old Town
3 belonged to the Whitechapel District
The death-rate was 5 per 1,000 while that for the whole of London was 5
per 1,000
Summer Diarrhoea
The number of deaths was 125 or 43 more than in the previous year
30 belonged to the Limehouse District
34 belonged to St George-in-the-East
38 belonged to Mile End Old Town
23 belonged to the Whitechapel District
The death-rate for the whole Borough was 4 per 1,000
71 per cent, of the deaths from Diarrhoea were those of infants under one year
of age