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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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ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF
London and Strand Death Rates for the year ending 31st December, 1896 (366 days), compared with the average rates for the five years, 1891-1895.
| Districts. | Annual rate per 1,000 Persons Living. | Deaths under 1 Year to 1,000 births. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Deaths | Principal Zymotic Diseases. | Deaths from | |||||||||||
| Average of 5 years. | 1896. | Average of 5 years. | 1896. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Fever. | Diarrhcea. | Average of 5 years. | 1896. | |
| London | 20.24 | 18.2 | 2.70 | 3.14 | 0.00 | 0.82 | 0.21 | 0.60 | 0.65 | 0.14 | 0.72 | 156 | 161 |
| Strand | 24.14 | 21.7 | 2.47 | 2.67 | — | 1.09 | 0.20 | 0.12 | 0.32 | 0.04 | 0.88 | 194 | 186 |
| St. Anne | 20.4 | 18.80 | 2.21 | 2.69 | — | 1.141 | 0.16 | 008 | 0.40 | 0.08 | 0.81 | 176 | 202 |
| Strand | 28.00 | 24.45 | 2.76 | 2.63 | — | 1.04 | 0.24 | 0.16 | 0.24 | — | 0.96 | 216 | 171 |
Note.—Where the deaths under any heading are loo few to express as a rate
per 1,000 within two places of decimals, 0.00 is inserted; where no
deaths have occurred, it is expressed thus—.
Appended to this report (pp. 60-62) are Tables A and B required
by the Local Government Board, together with Tables showing the
causes of death in the Strand District, and in each of its SubDistricts
at various groups of ages and distinguishing males and
females.
From these Tables it may be seen that 550 deaths occurred in
the District; 229 of these were of persons who did not belong
thereto, and 216 persons belonging to the District died outside its
bounds. 150 inhabitants of the District died in Poor Law Institutions,
15 in Lunatic Asylums, 6 in Fever Hospitals, and 89 in
General and Special Hospitals; thus 47-8 per cent, of the deaths
of residents occurred in Public Institutions (32.4 in St. Anne, 60.4
in Strand Sub-District); 27.6 per cent. of the deaths in all London
were under similar circumstances.