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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
City of London 1900
Report on the proceedings of the Public Health (Sanitary) Department of the Corporation of London during the year 1900
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It will be seen that in 1900 27.9 per cent.,
or 1 in every 3.6, deaths in the City occurred
in one of the above-named Institutions, compared
with 18.3 per cent., or about 1 in 5.5, in
the Metropolis under analogous circumstances.
In 1862, the previous ten years showed that
of every 100 deaths in the City, 14.5, or about
1 in every 7 only, were paupers who died in
City Workhouses.