Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the statistics and sanitary condition relating to Strand District, London for the year 1899
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SUMMARY OF TABLES and showing DEATHS during the Year 1899, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of STRAND, classified acccording to Diseases,
Ages , and Localities.
Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutionsbeing shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Birth. are in Form B.) | Mortality from all causes, at subjoined Ages. | Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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At all ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | ||
Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Typhus. | Fevers. | Puerperal. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhœa and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | TOTAL. | |||||||||||
Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Strand District | 279 | 66 | 27 | 4 | 13 | 122 | 47 | Under 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 24 | 4 | 44 | 93 | ||||||||||||||
5 upwds | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 32 | 55 | 22 | 7 | 62 | 186 | ||||||||||||||||||||
In Hospitals, &c., in District | 265 | 22 | 23 | 13 | 29 | 153 | 25 | Under 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 45 | |||||||||||||
5 upwds | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 29 | 21 | 16 | 126 | 220 | ||||||||||||||||||||
TOTALS | 544 | 88 | 50 | 17 | 42 | 275 | 72 | Under 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 4 | 36 | 1 | 7 | 65 | 138 | ||||||||||||
5 upwds | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 49 | 84 | 43 | 23 | 188 | 406 | |||||||||||||||||||
The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto | 211 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 12 | 110 | 57 | Under | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 28 | |||||||||||||||
5 upwds | 1 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 33 | 22 | 12 | 82 | 183 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 241 | 15 | 21 | 8 | 27 | 149 | 21 | Under 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 15 | 36 | ||||||||||||||
5 upwds | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 120 | 205 |