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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Table showing Births and Birth Rates; Deaths and Death Rates; Deaths from Zymotic Diseases,
also Death Rates during the past 10 Years.
1898 | 1899 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | Average of last 10 years. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Births during the year | 856 | 818 | 826 | 844 | 870 | 907 | 889 | 947 | 852 | 915 | 872.4 |
Birth rate per thousand | 31.97 | 29.45 | 27.74 | 28.12 | 28.42 | 28.90 | 27.62 | 28.55 | 25.15 | 25.43 | 28.13 |
Deaths from all causes | 452 | 408 | 392 | 352 | 394 | 328 | 424 | 437 | 441 | 414 | 360 |
Death rate per thousand | 16.80 | 14.69 | 12.83 | 11.73 | 12.51 | 10.46 | 1317 | 12.96 | 10.65 | 11.50 | 12.73 |
Deaths from Small Pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
„ Measles | 31 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 39 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 11 3 |
„ Scarlet Fever | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2.2 |
„ Diphtheria | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3.4 |
„ Whooping Cough | 7 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 7.2 |
„ Enteric and other Fevers | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2.3 |
„ Diarrhoea | 45 | 54 | 12 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 36 | 32 | 20 | 25.8 |
„ Enteritis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 13 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8.5 |
„ Croup | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 |
„ Erysipelas | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2.0 |
„ Puerperal Fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 |
„ principal zymotic diseases | 93 | 67 | 34 | 59 | 67 | 46 | 99 | 58 | 55 | 59 | 63.7 |
Death rate from ditto | 3.47 | 2.4 | 1.14 | 1.6 | 21 | 1.4 | 3.07 | 1.7 | 1.62 | 1.64 | 201 |