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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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| 1899. (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 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 15 | — | — | 25 | 10 | 20 | 30 | — |
| — | — | 1 | 2 | — | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | — | |
| 15 to 45 | 132 | 4 | — | 4 | 3 | 3 | 146 | 13 | — | 13 | - |
| Totals | 136 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 3 | 5 | 176 | 25 | 22 | 47 | 1,174 |
| Total Death Rates | 3.l per 1,000 of the population. | 0.8 per 1,000 of the population. | 21.1 per 1 000 of the population. | ||||||||