London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
City of London 1894
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894
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the number of persons actively employed in
the City during working hours has increased
185 per cent. during the last 29 years.
I mention these facts to emphasize the
extreme difficulty of calculating a basis upon
which we should determine a reliable Death
Rate for the City.
During 1894, 993 deaths were registered,
including 562 persons dying in the City but
not belonging thereto.
[In St. Bartholomew's Hospital alone 560
occurred of non-residents, and two in the Royal
London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields.]
Deducting these deaths we have to deal
with 431 persons, but have now to add the
deaths of 169 persons who died in City
Institutions in outside districts, where of course
they were registered. This then gives the
actual mortality upon which the death rate
should be calculated of 600 persons. No less
than 10.5 per cent. of these 600 deaths were
caused by injuries or violence, a large proportion
of them including persons found