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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
Westminster 1899
Annual report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the united Parishes of St. Margaret & St. John, Westminster for the year 1899.
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Table V.—Comparative statement of deaths from Tubercular and other Zymotic diseases, with age incidence, death rates, &c.
| 1897. (Age.) | Tubercular Diseases. | Meningitis. | Peritonitis. | Bones. | Totals. | Small-pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria and Enteric Fever (Notifiable). | Measles and Whooping Cough (Non-Notifl-able). | Totals. | Deaths from all causes. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lungs. | General. | Tabes Mesenterica. | |||||||||
| Under 5 | l | 6 | 8 | 16 | l | — | 32 | 19 | 36 | 55 | — |
| 5 &under15 | 2 | — | 4 | — | l | 7 | 12 | — | 12 | — | |
| 15 to 45 | 138 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | 2 | 144 | 8 | — | 8 | |
| Totals | 139 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 183 | 39 | 36 | 75 | 1,005 |
| Total Death Rates | 3.2 per 1,000 of the population. | 1.3 per 1,000 of the population. | 18.0 per 1,000 of the population. | ||||||||