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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 IIIwhole parish. females.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1897. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths ofResidents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

table IIIwhole parish. females.Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1897. Note.—The Deaths of Non-Residents occurring in Public Institutions situated in the District are excluded, and the Deaths ofResidents occurring in Public Institutions situated beyond the limits of the District are included.

AGES.All Ages.
0-1-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-
I. Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases5830182522765135
II. Parasitic Diseases1.............................1
III. Diktic Diseases2............1...1.........4
IV. CoNSTITOTIONAL DIsEA8ES1511691431333021133186
V. Developmental Diseases401..................7181480
VI. Local Diseases6327121423333556957018446
VII. Deaths from Violence811213121......20
VIII. Deaths from Ill-Defined and Not Specified Causes263......1......2.........32
Totals2137337274470719813010635904
I.—SPECIFIC FEBRILE, OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Smallpoxa. Vaccinated....................................
b. Unvaccinated....................................
c. No Statement....................................
Measles...1...........................1
Scarlet Fever...631.....................10
Typhus....................................
Epidemic Influenza...1......112324...14
Whooping Cough951............1.........16
Diphtheria411131.....................29
Simple Continued and Ill-defined Fever....................................
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......1...1..................2
Other Miasmatic Diseases....................................
2.—Diarrhœal Diseases.....................................
Simple Cholera...............1...............1
Diarrhoea, Dysentery44..................1.........53