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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

St Martin-in-the-Fields 1899

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1899

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Table: TABLE VI.Death-Rates from the Principal Zymotic Diseases per 1,000 persons living in 1899 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields and London.

TABLE VI.

Death-Rates from the Principal Zymotic Diseases per 1,000 persons living in 1899 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields and London.

Diseases.St. Martin-in-the-Fields.London.
Small-pox..0.00*
Mcasles0.380.47
Scarlet Fever..0.09
Diphtheria0.080.43
Whooping Cough..0.38
Typhoid Fever0.080.17
Diarrhœa0.460.92

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* This 0.00 indicates that the deaths were too few to give a rate of 0.005.