Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1899
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TABLE I.
BIRTHS, DEATHS, and INQUESTS for the last Ten Years,
1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 | 1895 | 1896 | 1897 | 1898 | 1899 | |
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Births | 267 | 252 | 246 | 223 | 233 | 189 | 221 | 175 | 182 | 154* |
Deaths, total | 382 | 420 | 331 | 367 | 341 | 367 | 340 | 297 | 305 | 358 |
„ under 5 years | 96 | 121 | 89 | 84 | 87 | 99 | 70 | 66 | 51 | 75 |
„ from 5 to 60 years | 214 | 222 | 179 | 223 | 202 | 209 | 212 | 174 | 195 | 214 |
„ over 60 years | 72 | 77 | 63 | 60 | 52 | 59 | 58 | 57 | 59 | 69 |
„ from Small-pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ „ Measles | 7 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
„ „ Scarlet Fever | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
„ „ Whooping - Cough | 5 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
„ „ Diarrhœa | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 9 |
„ „ Fever | 4 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 11 |
„ „ Consumption | 29 | 41 | 29 | 24 | 33 | 31 | 32 | 25 | 19 | 21 |
„ in Charing Cross Hospital | 173 | 204 | 141 | 184 | 168 | 201 | 182 | 173 | 189 | 236 |
54 | 58 | 60 | 56 | 58 | 54 | 47 | 63 | 52 | 43 |
* Six of these births occurred at the Bear Yard Receiving Ward of the Strand Union.
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