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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 1898

Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1898

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Table: TABLE III. MALES. WHOLE PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1898. 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 III. MALES. WHOLE PARISH. Deaths Registered from all Causes during the Year 1898. 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.

Groups of Diseases.AGES.All Ages.
0-1-5-15-25-35-46-55-65-75-85-
Classes.
I. Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases7977134555663203
II. Parasitic Diseases....................................
III. Dietic Diseases2.........114.........8
IV. Constitutional Diseases251571319254219136...184
V. Developmental Diseases52.....................411471
VI. Local Diseases1025115132131585765488469
VII. Deaths from Violence8444542521...39
VIII. Deaths from Ill-defined and Not Specified Causes30.....................1......31
totals29814739345066108919169121005
I.—SPECIFIC FEBRILE, OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Measles11352........................48
Scarlet Fever......1........................1
Epidemic Influenza33......133532...23
Whooping Cough99...........................18
32591...1...............39
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......134......1.........9
2.—Diarrhœl Diseases.
Diarrhoea, Dysentery483..................1......52
3.—Malarial Diseases.
Remittent Fever..................1............1
4.—Zo genous Diseases.
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis3.....................1......4