Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1855-56
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No. II.—Classification of the 2,910 Deaths, which occurred in the fifty.two weeks, dating from
Total Number of Deaths. | AT WHAT AGES? | FROM WHAT CAUSES? | ||||||||||||||||||||
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0 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 ta 20 | 20 to 30 | 30 to 40 | 40 to 50 | 50 to 60 | 60 to 70 | 70 and over. | Violence, Privation, Poison, and Premature Birth. | Fever. | Acute Diarrhoea (not of infants), Dysentery, and Cholera. | Scarlet.Fever and Cynanche Maligna. | Small.Pox. | Phthisis and other Tubercular Diseases. | Erysipelas, Puerperal Fever, and Phlebitis. | Diarrhoea, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia of infants under 3 years of age. | Measles, Hooping.cough, and Croup. | Hydrocephalus, Teething, & Convulsions of Infancy. | Other Diseases, chiefly chronic. | ||
East London Union | 1126 | 480 | 48 | 11 | 24 | 69 | 71 | 106 | 99 | 88 | 130 | 34 | 82 | 15 | 65 | 15 | 175 | 6 | 112 | 79 | 104 | 439 |
West London Union | 796 | 312 | 30 | 7 | 16 | 56 | 76 | 73 | 73 | 75 | 78 | 34 | 51 | 8 | 38 | 10 | 163 | 11 | 66 | 53 | 74 | 288 |
City of London Union | 988 | 327 | 32 | 16 | 19 | 69 | 77 | 99 | 111 | 110 | 128 | 72 | 26 | 11 | 27 | 8 | 152 | 3 | 78 | 44 | 86 | 481 |
Entire City | 2910 | 1119 | 110 | 34 | 59 | 194 | 224 | 278 | 283 | 273 | 336 | 140 | 159 | 34 | 130 | 33 | 490 | 20 | 256 | 176 | 264 | 1208 |
Average of the last Seven Years | 3190 | 1198 | 133 | 60 | 73 | 200 | 254 | 286 | 294 | 320 | 370 | .. | 139 | 186 | 104 | 38 | .. | 28 | 295 | 192 | 274 | .. |