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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 James's 1898
[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 |