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 London, City of ]
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No. IV.—Classification of the 2,911 Deathsy according to Causes, for the Fifty-two Weeks dating from September 25th, 1858, to September 24th, 1859.
Districts and Population. | Vio-lence, Privation, Premature Birth, & Poison. | Tubercular Diseases. | Convulsions and Teething. | Zymotic Diseases. | Pneumonia, Bronchitis, and Asthma. | Others, chiefly chronic. | Total. | |||||||||
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Phthisis. | Tabes and Scrofula. | Hydrocephalus. | Alvine | Flux. | Continued Fever. | Scarlet-Fever. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Whooping Cough Croup,& Diphtheria. | Erysipelas. | ||||||
Adults. | Children. | |||||||||||||||
East London Union (Population 44,593.) Average of Four Years preceding | 43 | 124 | 61 | 36 | 76 | 13 | 36 | 38 | 52 | 31 | 33 | 67 | 4 | 191 | 321 | 1126 |
50 | 132 | 79 | 40 | 75 | 22 | 38 | 57 | 49 | 11 | 32 | 64 | 8 | 229 | 312 | 1198 | |
West London Union. (Population 28,603.)Average of Four Years'] preceding | 50 | 97 | 50 | 26 | 44 | 9 | 26 | 46 | 42 | 4 | 29 | 55 | 4 | 119 | 180 | 781 |
42 | 108 | 55 | 26 | 30 | 10 | 20 | 34 | 25 | 9 | 16 | 32 | 7 | 128 | 221 | 763 | |
City op London Union(Population 56,726.)Average of Four Years preceding | 65 | 122 | 42 | 26 | 73 | 9 | 20 | 23 | 33 | 12 | 26 | 51 | 2 | 147 | 353 | 1004 |
71 | 132 | 45 | 30 | 59 | 13 | 20 | 30 | 36 | 7 | 20 | 53 | 7 | 164 | 376 | 1063 | |
Entire City (Population 129,922.) Average of Four Years preceding | 158 | 343 | 153 | 88 | 193 | 31 | 82 | 107 | 127 | 47 | 88 | 173 | 10 | 457 | 854 | 2911 |
163 | 372 | 179 | 96 | 164 | 45 | 78 | 121 | 110 | 27 | 68 | 149 | 22 | 521 | 909 | 3024 |