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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

Newington 1899

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Parish of St. Mary, Newington, London

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29
PHTHISIS.
The deaths from this disease were 325 during the year.
The annual rate per 1000 living was 2.62.
Deaths from Phthisis during the last ten years—
1890 285
1891 314
1892 260
1893 283
1894 231
1895 304
1896 304
1897 285
1898 298
1899 325
During the last four years it has been our practice to visit and
examine every house in which a person has died from Phthisis.
Disinfection of rooms after Phthisis takes place in about two-thirds
of the total deaths from that complaint, viz., in more than 200 cases
in the year.

Table: TABLE 10.ZymoticMortality for theSanitaryArea,showing the localities where the Deaths occurred.

TABLE 10.

ZymoticMortality for theSanitaryArea,showing the localities where the Deaths occurred.

Locality.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Typhus Fever.Enteric Fever.Dinrrhœa.
Parish..8222694..11116
Asylums Board Hospitals..11173....7..
St. Thomas' Hospital..1..2....3..
St. Saviour's Infirmary..1....2....5
Guy's Hospital..2..1....11
Evelina Hospital......18....2
Westminster Hospital......1........
Royal Hospital............1..
Total..8713104104..23124