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

Marylebone 1894

The sanitary chronicles of the Parish of St. Marylebone being the annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1894

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Table: TABLE V.—(living the Causes of Deaths during the 52 Weeks ending Deo. 31st, 1894, at the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying.in.Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, the Workhouse, and the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill, W.

TABLE V.—(living the Causes of Deaths during the 52 Weeks ending Deo. 31st, 1894, 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...............
Scarlet Fever...............
Diphteria13............
Typhoid mFever...............
Diarrhoea............3
Erysipelas11......3
Pneumonia and Pleurisy231......31
Pyaemia81......1
Syphilis...1......2
Cancer88.........23
Phthisis and Tuberculosis30.........104
Rheumatism1.........9
Apoplexy4.........14
Paralysis•••.........31
Bronchitis10......985
Asthma.........21
Peritonitis102......2
Disease of Brain2......36
,, Heart26......426
,, Kidney161......12
,, Liver9......27
,,Uterus......4...1
Ovary2...1......
Parturition...3.........
Diabetes...............
Fractures and Injuries22......15
Old Age.........611
Low Vitality, Infants...7...67
Premature Birth...17.........
Other causes57541756
Total*328†39‡1157440

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*Of the 328 deaths in the Middlesex Hospital, 192 were those of non.parishioners,
† Of the 39 deaths in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, 34 were those of non.parishioners.
‡Of the 11 deaths in the Samaritan Hospital , 10 were those of non.parishioners.