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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
Hampstead 1893
Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead for the year 1893
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Of these, 605 were non-parishioners; 20 parishioners died
in the North-Western Hospital, and 60 in the Workhouse.
Of the 91 parishioners who died in outlying Institutions,
55 succumbed in hospitals; 25 in asylums, and the
remainder in institutions and other places.
Special Causes of Death.—The deaths of parishioners from
the seven principal zymotic diseases, after correction for those
of our parishioners who died in hospitals outside our district,
are equal to a ratio of 1*3 per 1000 living inhabitants against
a ratio of 1.7 for the preceding year, whilst that for London
was equivalent to 3.1, and for the Northern districts 2.86.
The following table will show at a glance the diminution or excess of deaths in 1893 from the seven principal zymotic diseases:—
| Causes of death. | 1893. | 1892. | Diminution in 1893. | Excess in 1893. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-Pox | 2 | – | – | 2 |
| Measles | 1 | 25 | 24 | _ |
| Scarlet Fever | 20 | 5 | _ | 15 |
| Diphtheria | 36 | 27 | – | 9 |
| Whooping Cough | 6 | 22 | 16 | — |
| Enteric & Typhoid Fever | 8 | — | 6 | |
| Diarrhœa | 22 | 15 | – | 7 |
| Total | 95 | 96 | 40 | 39 |
Thus, whilst under the headings of Small-Pox, Scarlet
Fever, Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, and Diarrhoea there has