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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
Strand (Westminster) 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Strand District, London]
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SUMMARY OF TABLES and showing DEATHS during the Year 1900, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of STRAND, classified acccording to Diseases
Ages , and Localities.
| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutionsbeing shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Births are in Form b.) | Mortauty from all causes, at subjoined Ages. | Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| At all ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | |||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhœa and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | total. | ||||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strand District | 227 | 53 | 25 | 5 | 7 | 89 | 48 | Under 5 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 2 19 | 4 | 33 | 78 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 43 | 14 | 4 | 50 | 149 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In Hospitals, &c., in District | 268 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 16 | 170 | 22 | Under 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 12 | 2 | 16 | 43 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 21 | 30 | 16 | 128 | 225 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 495 | 76 | 45 | 22 | 23 | 259 | 70 | Under 5 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 31 | 6 | 49 | 121 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 9 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 51 | 64 | 44 | 20 | 178 | 374 | |||||||||||||||||||||
The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality.
| Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto | 189 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 101 | 66 | Under 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 14 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 3 | 1 | 38 | 37 | 18 | 2 | 76 | 175 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 247 | 24 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 161 | 20 | Under 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 13 | 39 | |||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 17 | 28 | 16 | 119 | 208 |