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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
Strand (Westminster) 1893
Thirty-eighth annual report on the sanitary condition of the Strand District, London
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Local Government Board. Form A. TABLE I.
Table of DEATHS during the Year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of STRAND, classified acccording to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
| Names ok Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Birth* are in Form B.) | Mortality from all causes, at subjoined Auks. | Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| At all ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | |||||||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | TOTAL. | ||||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strand District | 374 | 100 | 50 | 7 | 10 | 154 | 53 | Under 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 9 | - | - | 3 | 38 | 1 | 3 | 75 | 150 | |||||||||
| 5 upwds | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | 44 | 58 | 29 | 10 | 79 | 224 | |||||||||||||||||
| Strand Union Casual Wards, Bear Yard | 20 | 4 | - | 1 | 18 | 3 | Under 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 0 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| King's College Hospital | 251 | 34 | 38 | 16 | 16 | 139 | 8 | Under 5 | 17 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 33 | 72 | ||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 9 | 28 | 21 | 17 | 95 | 179 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hospital for Women, Soho Square | 16 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 14 | - | Under 5 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 15 | 15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. Peter's Hospital | 12 | 9 | 3 | Under 5 | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | - | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lock Hospital, Dean Street | 1 | 1 | - | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home Hospital, Dean Street | 1 | 1 | - | Under 5 | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, Soho Square | 5 | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | - | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 686 | 139 | 88 | 24 | 28 | 340 | 07 | Under 5 | - | 5 | 21 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 12 | 11 | - | - | 4 | 50 | 3 | 0 | 112 | 227 | |
| 5 upwds | - | - | 1 | - | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 54 | 92 | 54 | 29 | 217 | 459 | |||||||||
| The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths occurring outside the , district among persons belonging thereto | 244 | 15 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 127 | 71 | Under 6 | - | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 12 | 30 | |
| 5 upwds | 1 | 7 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 46 | 41 | 8 | 0 | 99 | 214 | |||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 259 | 29 | 25 | 15 | 20 | 159 | 11 | Under 5 | - | - | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 54 | |
| 5 upwds | - | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 10 | 22 | 24 | 22 | 119 | 205 | |||||||||