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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
Hampstead 1899
Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead for the year 1899
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Table No. III. CAUSES OF DEATH IN HAMPSTEAD.
| Measles | 22 |
| Whooping Cough | 11 |
| Enteric Fever | 4 |
| Diarrhœea | 39 |
| Diphtheria | 13 |
| Scarlet Fever | 6 |
| Puerperal Fever | 2 |
| Erysipelas | 0 |
| Influenza | 32 |
| Phthisis | 81 |
| Tabes Mesenterica | 3 |
| Brain Tubercle | 8 |
| Other Tubercular diseases | 6 |
| Cancer and Malignant disease | 58 |
| Gout and Rheumatism | 6 |
| Dietetic | 7 |
| Nervous Diseases | 64 |
| Convulsions | 16 |
| Circulatory | 110 |
| Respiratory | 135 |
| Digestive | 75 |
| Generative | 9 |
| Urinary | 40 |
| Locomotary | 1 |
| Integumentary | 1 |
| Premature Birth | 34 |
| Congenital Defects and Malformations | 8 |
| Old Age | 40 |
| Violence | 33 |
| All others, &c., and those dying outside Parish | 62 |
| 926 |