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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 13 Weeks ending March 27th, 1897, 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 13 Weeks ending March 27th, 1897, 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.Workhouse.Notting Hill Infirmary.
Influenza..........
Scarlet Fever..........
Diphtheria3........
Typhoid Fever3........
Diarrhœa1........
Erysipelas........
Pneumonia and Pleurisy5......17
Pyæmia2........
Syphilis........2
Cancer26......10
Phthisis and Tuberculosis14......25
Rheumatism........3
Apoplexy2....l1
Paralysis........16
Bronchitis5....427
Asthma......1..
Peritonitis8......1
Disease of Brain1........
,, Heart13....18
,, Kidney3..... ...
„ Liver3......1
„ Uterus....l....
„ Ovary1..2....
Parturition..........
Diabetes..........
Fractures and Injuries6....13
Old Age......111
Low Vitality, Infants......2..
Premature Birth..c. 5......
Other causes1453310
Total*110†10‡614134

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* Of the 110 deaths in the Middlesex Hospital, 89 were those of non-parishioners.
† The 10 deaths in Queen Charlotte's Hospital were infants, 9 were children of
non-parishioners.
15 of the 6 deaths in the Samaritan Hospital were those of non-parishioners.