Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Table III.—
Causes of Death. | Corrected Deaths in the City at subjoined Ages. | Deaths in Wards (at all Ages). | |||||||||||||||||||||
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All ages. | Under 1. | 1 and under 2. | 2 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 45. | 45 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | Conduit. | Grosvenor. | Hamlet of Knightsbridge. | Knightsbridge St. George. | Victoria. | St. Margaret. | St. John. | St. Anne. | | Great Marlborough. | Pall Mall. | Regent. | Charing Cross. | Covent Garden. | Strand. | |
Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
Measles | 24 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 5 | - | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
Scarlet fever | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Influenza | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | 9 | - | 3 | - | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Whooping cough | 29 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | - | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Diphtheria, Memb. croup | 14 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 |
Cerebro-spinal meningitis | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Enteric fever | 4 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Infective diarrhoea | 47 | 37 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 16 | 4 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Enteritis | 27 | 12 | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 12 | 1 | 6 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | - |
Erysipelas | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal fever | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | -- | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
15 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 6 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
Syphilis, &c. | 7 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Diabetes | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 7 | 7 | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 |
Rheumatic fever | 10 | - | - | - | 3 | - | 4 | 3 | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Tuberculosis of meninges | 28 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 9 | 3 | 6 | 4 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - |
Tuberculosis of lungs | 191 | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 21 | 86 | 58 | 20 | - | 3 | 4 | 9 | 52 | 11 | 55 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 14 |