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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 1899

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1899

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Table: Percentage of Deaths occurring in Workhouses, Workhouse Infirmaries and Lunatic Asylums to total Deaths in the City of London and the Metropolis respectively, for 1899, compared with the average for the previous five years :—

Percentage of Deaths occurring in Workhouses, Workhouse Infirmaries and Lunatic Asylums to total Deaths in the City of London and the Metropolis respectively, for 1899, compared with the average for the previous five years :—

Year.City of London.Metropolis.
1894Per cent. 29.2Per cent. 15.8
189580.715.4
189629.915.4
189725.716.4
189828.816.8
Average of previous five years28.915.9
189929.917.8

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It will be seen that in 1899 29.3 per cent.,
or 1 in every 3.3, deaths in the City occurred
in one of the above-named Institutions, compared
with 17.8 per cent., or about 1 in 5.6, in
the Metropolis under analogous circumstances.