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 St James's, Westminster]
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The following Table gives a summary of the certified causes of death, during the year 1898, among persons dying in outlying places, after having been removed from the district of St. James, Westminster:—
Accidental Injury | 3 |
Apoplexy | 5 |
Brain Disease | 5 |
Bronchitis | 6 |
Cancer | 10 |
Diphtheria | 5 |
Enteric Fever | 1 |
Heart Disease | 15 |
Hernia | 1 |
Insanity | 3 |
Intus-susception | 2 |
Kidney Disease | 8 |
Liver Disease | 3 |
Meningitis | 5 |
Old Age | 3 |
Other Diseases | 12 |
Paralysis | 4 |
Phthisis | 22 |
Pneumonia | 6 |
Poisoning | 1 |
Scarlet Fever | 2 |
Spinal Disease | 2 |
Tuberculosis | 1 |
125 |