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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

Marylebone 1893

The sanitary chronicles of the Parish of St. Marylebone being the annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1893

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Table: TABLE II.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during the 52 Weeks ending Dec. 25th, 1893, at the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in-Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, the Workhouse, and the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill, W.

TABLE II.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during the 52 Weeks ending Dec. 25th, 1893, at the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in-Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, the Workhouse, and the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill, W.

Middlesex Hospital.Queen Charlotte's Hospital.Samaritan Hospital.WorkhouseNotting Hill Infirmary.
Influenza.........1...
Scarlet Fever...............
Diphtheria21.........3
Typhoid Fever3.........2
Diarrhœa.........73
Erysipelas3.........2
Pneumonia and Pleurisy392...838
Pyaemia4...1...1
Syphilis11...24
Cancer100.........31
Phthisis and Tuberculosis191...2128
Rheumatism5.........3
Apoplexy31...54
Paralysis.........322
Bronchitis12......2296
Asthma.........3...
Peritonitis7......11
Disease of Brain1......57
„ Heart1712523
„ Kidney1611116
,, Liver3......36
„ Uterus112......
„ Ovary2...9...1
Parturition...1.........
Diabetes...............
Fractures and Injuries15......213
Old Age1......97
Low Vitality, Infants...218...
Premature Birth...8...4...
Other causes3152542
Total*304†24‡1896453

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* Of the 304 deaths in the Middlesex Hospital, 257 were those of strangers to the Parish
† Of the 24 deaths in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, 22 were those of non-parishioners.
‡ The 18 deaths in the Samaritan Hospital were those of non-parishioners.
In the Middlesex Hospital there were, in 1893, 2,513 in-patients; the mortality was
therefore 12.1 per cent.
In the Samaritan Hospital there were 573 in-patients; the mortality was therefore
31 per cent.
In the Notting Hill Infirmary there were 3,211 patients; the mortality was therefore
141 per cent.