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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
Strand (Westminster) 1896
Annual report on the statistics and sanitary condition relating to Strand District, London for the year 1896
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SUMMARY OF TABLES and showing DEATHS during the Year 1896 (366 days), in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of STRAND, classified according to Diseases,
Ages , and Localities.
| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics ; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities. | Mortality from all causes, at subjoined Ages. | (i) | Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| At all ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | ||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhœa and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | TOTAL. | |||||||||||||
| (Columns for Population and Births are in Form B.) | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing. | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strand District | 292 | 87 | 46 | 9 | 10 | 101 | 39 | Under 5 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | 6 | 16 | - | - | - | 22 | - | 7 | 53 | 133 |
| 5 upwds | 1 | 2 | - | 28 | 35 | 19 | 16 | 58 | 159 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In Hospitals, &c., in District | 258 | 24 | 29 | 12 | 17 | 153 | 23 | Under 5 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 4 | 16 | - | - | 26 | 53 |
| 5 upwds | 3 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 26 | 37 | 7 | 106 | 205 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 550 | 111 | 75 | 21 | 27 | 254 | 62 | Under 5 | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 8 | 6 | - | - | 4 | 38 | - | 7 | 79 | 186 | |||||||
| 5 upwds | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | 3 | 2 | — | 50 | 61 | 56 | 23 | 164 | 364 | ||||||||
| The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto | 216 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 11 | 106 | 73 | Under 5 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 23 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 3 | — | 42 | 29 | 20 | 6 | 89 | 193 | |||||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 229 | 15 | 21 | 11 | 16 | 142 | 24 | Under 5 | — | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 11 | 19 | 36 | |||
| 5 upwds | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | 19 | 16 | 36 | 10 | 106 | 193 | ||||||||