Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on vital statistics and sanitary work for the year 1898
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TABLE 19 A. Rates calculated from figures contained in Table 19.
| Rates per 1,000 of Populations. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paddington. | St. Mart. | St. John. | |||||
| 1898. | Mean 1888-97 | 1898. | Mean 1888-97. | 1898. | Mean 1888-97. | ||
† Includes Diphtheria, Quinsy, Croup, Sore Throat, and Laryngitis,
‡ „ Typhus, Enteric (or Typhoid), and Simple Continued levers.
§ ,, Diarrhoea and Dysentery.
¶,, Epidemic Influenza not separately classified prior to 1890.
,, Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Meningitis, Hydrocephalus, Scrofula,
and all forms of Tuberculosis, except " Phthisis."
for 1896 (103). Last year's total was 39 above the
corrected decennial average, and the rate (0.69) was
0.32 per 1,000 above the mean, fn the quinquennium