Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1903
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Notes.—(a) In this Table all deaths of "Residents" occurring in public
institutions, whether within or without the district, are
included with the other deaths in the columns for the
several age groups (columns 2-8). They are also, in
columns 9-15, included among the deaths in their
respective "Localities" according to the previous addresses
of the deceased as given by the registrars. Deaths of
"Non-residents" occurring in public institutions in the
district are in like manner excluded from columns 2-8 and
9-15 of this Table.
(b) See notes on Table I. as to the meaning of "Residents" and
"Non-residents," and as to the ''Public Institutions" to be
taken into account for the purposes of these Tables. The
" Localities" are the same as those in Tables II. and III.
(c) All deaths occurring in public institutions situated within the
district, whether of "Residents" or of "Non-Residents,"
are, in addition to being dealt with as in note (a), entered
in the last column of this Table. The total number in this
column equals the figures for the year in column 9, Table I.
(d) The total deaths in the several "Localities" in columns 9-15
of this Table equal those for the year in the same localities
in Table II., sub-columns c. The Total deaths at all ages
in column 2 of this Table equal the gross total of columns
9-15, and the figures for the year in column 12 of Table I.
(e) Under the heading of "Diarrhœa" are included deaths
certified as from diarrhœa, alone or in combination with
some other cause of ill-defined nature; and also deaths
certified as from
Epidemic enteritis;
Zymotic enteritis;
Epidemic diarrhœa. Summer diarrhœa;
Dysentery and dysenteric diarrhœa;
Choleraic diarrhoea, cholera, cholera nostras
(in the absence of Asiatic cholera).