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 Westminster, City of]
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Table I..Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the year 1924.
| Causes of Death. | Corrected Deaths in the City at subjoined Ages. | Deaths in Wards (at all Aoes). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages. | Under 1. | 1 and under 2. | 2 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under -15. | 45 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | Conduit. | Grosvenor. | Hamlet of Knightsbridge. | Knightsbridge St. George. | Victoria. | St. Margaret. | St. John. | St. Anne. | Great Marlborough. | Pall Mall. | Regent. | Charing Cross. | Corent Garden. | Strand. | Homeless. | |
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Measles | 10 | 65 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Influenza | 25 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 11 | - | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | |
| Whooping-cough | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria, Memb. croup | 10 | . | 1 | 3 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Cerebro-spinal meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diarrhoea, enteritis | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other sentic diseases | 11 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 5 | - | - | 2 | - | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | |
| Syphilis, &c. | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diabetes | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rheumatic fever | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis of lungs | 90 | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 36 | 37 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 4 | 35 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | . | 2 | 2 | |
| Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis | S | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | _ | _ | 2 | - | - | _ | - | _ | 3 | _ | 5 | _ | - | _ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malignant growths | 107 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 8 | 58 | 39 | - | 4 | 1 | 7 | 31 | 8 | 33 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | - |
| Congenital debility, malformation, and premature birth | 26 | 26 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | - | - |
| Old age | 24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Meningitis and convulsions | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | -2- | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |