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 1904
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WEEKLY MORTALITY.
The line on the chart of deaths from all causes
indicates the number of deaths, week by week, corrected
for institution deaths.
SPECIAL CAUSES OF DEATH.
(Quarterly and Annual Deaths).
On the next two pages will be found tabulated the
quarterly and annual rates of mortality for some of
the principal diseases included in Table IV. in the
appendix. The table also shews mortality rates for all
causes of death and for infantile deaths, this latter
rate is calculated upon the actual number of births
registered in each quarter and the annual rate upon
the total registered births.
The other rates indicate mortalities from the diseases
specified, calculated upon the estimated population of
the borough in the middle of the year 1904.