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 Islington, Parish of St. Mary ]
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Table VII.
Showing the Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases in 1892 and for the past Seven Years.
Estimated Population in the Middle of the Year. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus. | Enteric (Typhoid Fever). | Diarrhoea. | Total. | Death-Rate per 1,000 Population. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1885 | 297,867 | 38 | 289 | 29 | 138 | 200 | ... | 55 | 191 | 940 | 3.1 |
1886 | 301,512 | ... | 64 | 25 | 54 | 205 | ... | 48 | 307 | 703 | 2.3 |
1887 | 305,112 | 2 | 331 | 50 | 27 | 238 | ... | 39 | 291 | 978 | 3.2 |
1888 | 308,936 | ... | 151 | 50 | 35 | 230 | ... | 49 | 146 | 661 | 2.1 |
1889 | 312,713 | ... | 180 | 32 | 44 | 112 | ... | 56 | 170 | 595 | 1.9 |
1890 | 316,543 | ... | 185 | 29 | 47 | 200 | ... | 35 | 169 | 665 | 2.1 |
1891 | 320,418 | ... | 205 | 28 | 94 | 235 | ... | 25 | 146 | 733 | 2.2 |
1892 | 324,339 | 2* | 169 | 52* | 130* | 149 | ... | 38* | 158 | 698 | 2.2 |
* These figures include the deaths in the M. A. B.'s Hospitals.