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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

Paddington 1897

Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1897

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Table: TABLE IIImales. whole parish.Deaths Registered from all Causes (luring the Year 1897. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

TABLE IIImales. whole parish.Deaths Registered from all Causes (luring the Year 1897. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths of Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

Cause of Death.AGES.All Ages.
0-1-5-15-25-35-46-55-65-75-85-
Classes.
I. Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases5851143529643..155
II. Parasitic Diseases....................................
III. Dietic Diseases3.........3321.........12
IV. Constitutional Diseases161311122323362196...170
V. Developmental Diseases40...1............1411764
VI. Local Diseases923312132233567277324446
VII. Deaths from Violence41a4354741137
VIII. Deaths from Ill-defined and Not Specified Causes22..............................22
Totals2359841325666107108985312906
I.—SPECIFIC FEBRILE, OR ZYMOTIC DISEASE. 1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpoxa. Vaccinated....................................
b Unvaccinated....................................
c. No Statement'....................................
Measles1..............................1
Scarlet Fever...91........................10
Typhus....................................
Epidemic Influenza3.........223312...16
Whooping Cough1113...........................24
Diphtheria12212...1..................36
Simple Continued and Ill-defined Fever..................1............1
Enteric or Typhoid Fever.........3......1............4
Other Miasmatic Diseases....................................
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.
Simple Cholera............1.........1......2
Diarrhœa, Dysentery3961...1...3121...54