[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chiswick].
- Chiswick (London, England). Urban District Council.
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chiswick]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![8 notice is served requiring a thorough cleansing and washing of the sick room and its contents. These measures have a tendency to lessen the danger neces sarily associated with this disease to other members of the family, or possibly members of another family who may be moving into the infected house. My object in bringing these details before your notice in this report, is with the view of pointing out the great advantage which might be secured by a similar arrangement in this parish. The following table epitomises the ages at which the deaths occurred: Deaths under a year 108 161 under 5 „ from 1 year and under 5 years 53] years of age. „ „ 5 years „ 15 „ 20 15„ ,, 25 „ 12 194 over 5 „ „ 25 „ ,, 65 „ 88 years of age. 11 it 65 „ and upwards 74 Thirty-three deaths were registered between the ages of 70 and 80 and nineteen between 8) and 90, out of which number one attained the age of 90. Infantile Mortality. The rate of this mortality or the proportion of deaths under one year in every thousand births was 149. For London it was 160; and for England and Wales .148. The following diseases proved most fatal to infants and young children (under 5 years of age):](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b19968929_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
