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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 1898
Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead for the year 1898
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Table No. III CAUSES OF DEATH IN HAMPSTEAD.
| Measles | 26 |
| Whooping Cough | 27 |
| Enteric Fever | 10 |
| Diarrhœa | 24 |
| Diphtheria | 19 |
| Scarlet Fever | 3 |
| Puerperal Fever | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 4 |
| Influenza | 18 |
| Phthisis | 54 |
| Tabes Mesenterica | 7 |
| Brain Tubercle | 20 |
| Other Tubercular diseases | 5 |
| Cancer, Malignant disease | 69 |
| Gout, Rheumatism | 8 |
| Dietetic | 10 |
| Nervous diseases | 84 |
| Convulsions | 18 |
| Circulatory | 87 |
| Respiratory | 119 |
| Digestive | 50 |
| Generative | 5 |
| Urinary | 36 |
| Locomotary | 7 |
| Integumentary | 1 |
| Premature Birth | 31 |
| Congenital Defects, Malformations | 9 |
| Old Age | 41 |
| Violence | 39 |
| All others, &c , and those dying outside Parish | 85 |
| 917 |