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 Chiswick]
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The following table gives the average births, deaths, birth and death rates, also the deaths from zymotic disease for the past ten years:
1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | Average of last 10 years. | |
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Births during the year | 709 | 683 | 688 | 678 | 639 | 654 | 679 | 675 | 708 | 692 | 680.5 |
Birth rate per thousand | 37.37 | 34.84 | 34.10 | 32.64 | 29.89 | 29.48 | 29.80 | 28.86 | 29.52 | 28.15 | 31.46 |
Deaths from all causes | 315 | 318 | 331 | 271 | 358 | 345 | 392 | 338 | 313 | 382 | 336.3 |
Death rate per thousand | 16.60 | 16.24 | 16.40 | 13.04 | 16.75 | 15.55 | 17.20 | 14.45 | 13.05 | 15.37 | 15.46 |
Deaths from Small Pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
,, Measles | 5 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 34 | 5 | 12 | 11 | 10.4 |
,, Scarlet Fever | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2.3 |
,, Diphtheria | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2.3 |
,, Whooping Cough | 14 | 3 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 9.7 |
,, Typhoid and other Fevers | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 2.7 |
,, Diarrhoea | 10 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 18 | 20 | 21 | 9 | 26 | 15.6 |
„ Croup (Membranous and Diphtheritic) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1.2 |
„ Erysipelas | 0 | I | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .5 |
,, principal zymotic diseases | 33 | 32 | 38 | 26 | 50 | 43 | 89 | 49 | 40 | 5o | 45 |
Death rate from do. | 173 | 1.58 | 1.78 | 1.20 | 2.38 | 1.93 | 3.90 | 2.09 | 1.66 | 2.4 | 2.29 |