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St Martin-in-the-Fields 1896

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1896

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TABLE V.

Showing the number of deaths occurring in the Parish from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, excluding those non-residents who died in the Charing Cross Hospital, and including those parishioners who died in public institutions outside the Parish during the years1886-87-88-89-90-91-92-93-94-95,also the number in1896.

DISEASE.1886.1887.1888.1889.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.Annual Average of 10 Years. 1886 to 1895.1896.
Small-Pox11.2
Measles651068691926.211
Scarlet Fever3931161122.74
Diphtheria133215116574.42
Whooping Cough134486812565.75
*Fever3131421311.95
Diarrhoea148443222334.54
Total3724332423242914262225.631

* Under the head Fever, is included Typhus, Typhoid, Continued, Relapsing and Puerperal.