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 the year 1893
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TABLE I.
BIRTHS, DEATHS, and INQUESTS for the last Ten Years,
1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | |
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Births | 401 | 350 | 356 | 302 | 276 | 283 | 267 | 252 | 246 | 223 |
Deaths, total | 469 | 426 | 425 | 415 | 399 | 380 | 382 | 420 | 331 | 367 |
„ under 5 years | 142 | 113 | 119 | 115 | 100 | 127 | 96 | 121 | 89 | 84 |
,, from 5 to 60 | 252 | 233 | 215 | 218 | 225 | 200 | 214 | 222 | 179 | 223 |
„ over 60 years | 75 | 80 | 91 | 82 | 74 | 53 | 72 | 77 | 63 | 60 |
„ from Small-pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ „ Measles | 8 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 1 |
„ „ Scarlet Fever | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
„ „ Whooping-Cough | 13 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 2 |
„ „ Diarrhœa | 14 | 6 | 15 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
„ „ Fever | 7 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
„ „ Consumption | 46 | 51 | 47 | 29 | 31 | 26 | 29 | 41 | 29 | 24 |
„ „ in Charing Cross Hospital | 178 | 177 | 160 | 175 | 195 | 174 | 173 | 204 | 141 | 184 |
Inquests | 73 | 63 | 60 | 67 | 62 | 57 | 54 | 58 | 60 | 56 |