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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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Deaths.
The total Deaths registered in the Parish during the year 1896
were 340, a number 27 less than in the previous year.

The following Table gives the number of Deaths registered in each month of the year:—

Males.Females.Total.
January151227
February241034
March19928
April19726
May15722
June171229
July24832
August20727
September181230
October21627
November131124
December25934
230110340

These 340 Deaths include those non-parishioners who died in
the Charing Cross Hospital, and must therefore be omitted in
estimating the death-rate, but, on the other hand, the deaths
occurring in Public Institutions outside the Parish among persons
belonging thereto must be added. On referring to Table 7, it will
at once make clear what I have just stated.
In estimating the Death-rate, I do so in two forms, the first in
which are excluded 12 deaths of aged parishioners occurring iu
Edmonton Workhouse, they having been resident there many years
prior to their death, and in the second form I have included them.
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