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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

West Ham 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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Table: Sex.—The distribution of deaths between the sexes is shown in the following table, June and December being the only months in which female deaths were in excess of male deaths:—

Sex.—The distribution of deaths between the sexes is shown in the following table, June and December being the only months in which female deaths were in excess of male deaths:—

Month.Deaths Registered.
Males.Females.
January227194
February182155
March153148
April215169
May164137
June182210
July231213
August253231
September204172
October164139
November200174
December195203

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Chief Zymotic Diseases.—The seven chief zymotic diseases,
which include small-pox, scarlatina, diphtheria, fever, measles,
whooping cough, diarrhoea, caused 982 deaths, giving an annual
zymotic death-rate of 3.9 per 1,000. This was .2 per 1,000 above the
mean zymotic death-rate during the past 14 years, which averaged 3.7.
In the matter of zymotic death-rate West Ham frequently holds an
unenviable position, and last year proved no exception to this rule.
According to the Registrar General the average zymotic rate of the 32
largest English towns was 2.6 per 1,000, a figure much below that