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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 1856

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1855-56

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Table: No. II.—Classification of the 2,910 Deaths, which occurred in the fifty.two weeks, dating from September 29th, 1855, to September 21th, 1856.

No. II.—Classification of the 2,910 Deaths, which occurred in the fifty.two weeks, dating from September 29th, 1855, to September 21th, 1856.

Total Number of Deaths.AT WHAT AGES?FROM WHAT CAUSES?
0 to 55 to 1010 to 1515 ta 2020 to 3030 to 4040 to 5050 to 6060 to 7070 and over.Violence, Privation, Poison, and Premature Birth.Fever.Acute Diarrhoea (not of infants), Dysentery, and Cholera.Scarlet.Fever and Cynanche Maligna.Small.Pox.Phthisis and other Tubercular Diseases.Erysipelas, Puerperal Fever, and Phlebitis.Diarrhoea, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia of infants under 3 years of age.Measles, Hooping.cough, and Croup.Hydrocephalus, Teething, & Convulsions of Infancy.Other Diseases, chiefly chronic.
East London Union1126480481124697110699881303482156515175611279104439
West London Union7963123071656767373757834518381016311665374288
City of London Union9883273216196977991111101287226112781523784486481
Entire City2910111911034591942242782832733361401593413033490202561762641208
Average of the last Seven Years319011981336073200254286294320370..13918610438..28295192274..