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 St James's, Westminster]
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The following numbers of Deaths were registered as having occurred in St. James's during the year 1887:—
First Quarter | 119 |
Second Quarter | 115 |
Third Quarter | 108 |
Fourth Quarter | 121 |
Gross mortality for year 1887 | 463 |
Deduct deaths of Non-Parishioners:— | |
Dying in the Workhouse 32 | |
Dying in the Throat Hospital 5 | |
37 | |
Net mortality for the year 1887 | 426 |
These facts, for the last ten years, are shown in the following table, but, until we have a new census, it is difficult to know what changes are taking place in the population of St. James's since the census of 1881:—
Gross Mortality. | Net Mortality | Death Rates. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Year 1878 | Deaths | 693 | 647 | 19.00 |
„ 1879 | ,, | 608 | 568 | 17.00 |
„ 1880 | ,, | 623 | 589 | 17.60 |
„ 1881 | ,, | 569 | 545 | 18.22 |
„ 1882 | ,, | 538 | 505 | 17.00 |
„ 1883 | ,, | 527 | 501 | 16.80 |
„ 1884 | ,, | 486 | 476 | 15.94 |
„ 1885 | ,, | 476 | 451 | 15.10 |
„ 1886 | ,, | 493 | 450 | 15.07 |
„ 1887 | ,, | 463 | 426 | 14.26 |