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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 1896

The sanitary chronicles of the Parish of St. Marylebone being the annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1896

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Table: TABLE III.— Giving the Causes of Deaths during the 53 Weeks endingDecember 26th, 1896, at the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in-Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, the Workhouse, and the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill, W.

TABLE III.— Giving the Causes of Deaths during the 53 Weeks endingDecember 26th, 1896, 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.WorkhouseSt. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill
Measles............3
Influenza...............
Scarlet Fever...............
Diphtheria3.........2
Typhoid Fever4.........1
Diarrhoea...3......7
Erysipelas4.........4
Pneumonia and Pleurisy17.........21
Pyæmia52......4
Syphilis......1...2
Cancer110...2...34
Phthisis and Tuberculosis31.........87
Rheumatism............4
Apoplexy8.........7
Paralysis............48
Bronchitis12......9107
Asthma2.........1
Peritonitis1413...1
Disease of Brain...1...19
„ Heart38...11031
„ Kidney161227
„ Liver6...1...6
,, Uterus3...4......
,, Ovary2...5...1
Parturition...7.........
Diabetes...............
Fractures and Injuries20......213
Old Age.........410
Low Vitality, Infants12...6...
Premature Birth116...11
Other causes6393345
Total*360†42‡2250456

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* Of the 360 deaths in the Middlesex Hospital, 267 were those of non-parishioners,
† 31 of the 42 deaths in Queen Charlotte's Hospital were those of non-parishioners.
‡ 19 of the 22 deaths in the Samaritan Hospital were those of non-parishioners.