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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. WHOLE PARISH. FEMALES. 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. WHOLE PARISH. FEMALES. 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 or Diseases.AGES.All Ages.
0-1-5-15-25-35-45-55-65-75-85-
I. Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases60751586477178...207
II. Parasitic Diseases.........11..................2
III. Dietic Diseases............11421......9
IV. Constitutional Diseases13166162428312827153207
V. Developmental Diseases271...............112251480
VI. Local Diseases4545101224335357917618464
VII. Deaths from Violence93...1242...3...327
VIII. Deaths from Ill-Defined and Not Specified Causes241...............111129
Totals174141313858709796152125391025
I.—SPECIFIC FEBRILE, OR ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
1.—Miasmatic Diseases.
Measles7331........................41
Scarlet Fever...43........................7
Epidemic Iufluenza14112255158...44
Whooping Cough11151........................27
Diphtheria21471...1...............25
Enteric or Typhoid Fever......23...1............8
2.—Diarrhœl Diseases.
Diarrhœa, Dysentery335...............2.........40
3.—Malarial Diseases.
4.—Zoogenous Diseases.
5.—Venereal Diseases.
Syphilis4............1...............5