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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
City of Westminster 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| Tuberculous peritonitis, tabes mesenterica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Other tuberculous diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other causes— | |||||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Syphilis | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 |
| Rickets | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Meningitis (not tuberculous) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Convulsions | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — | — | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| Bronchitis | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 11 |
| Laryngitis | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Pneumonia | — | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 21 |
| Suffocation, overlying | 3 | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 5 |
| Other causes | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — | 13 |
| 53 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 78 | 30 | 19 | 25 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 214 |
Population, estimated to middle of 1910, 171,790.
Births in the year—Legitimate, 2,399; illegitimate, 193—Total 2,592.
Deaths in the year of legitimate infants, 189; illegitimate infants, 25—Total 214.
Deaths from all causes at all ages, 1,891.
The causes of death of the illegitimate children were: prematurity, 4; debility at birth, 4; congenital defects, 3;
injury Dr want of attention at birth, 2; enteritis, 3; pneumonia, 1; whooping cough, 2; syphilis, 1; convulsions, 1;
suffocation, 3; otitis media, 1.