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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
City of Westminster 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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FEMALES.
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 Ages). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All ages. | Under 1. | 1 and under 2. | 2 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 16 and under 25. | 25 and under 45. | 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. | Covent Garden. | Strand. | Homeless. | |
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 15 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet fever | 3 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Influenza | 31 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 7 | 21 | - | 3 | - | 4 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 - | - | - | - |
| Whooping-cough | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria, Memb. croup | 17 | - | 3 | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Cerebro-spinal meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diarrhoea, enteritis | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal fever | 2 | - | - | _ | _ | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other septic diseases | 13 | 1 | - | - | _ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | __ | 2 | _ | 1 | 4 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Syphilis, &c | 1 | - | - | - | _ | _ | 1 | _ | _ | 1 | _ | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diabetes | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Rheumatic fever | 1 | - | - | _ | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis of lungs, &c. | 34 | - | - | 1 | _ | 9 | 16 | 7 | 1 | _ | 3 | 2 | 1 | 17 | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 |
| Non-pulmonary tuberculosis | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | _ | _ | 1 | _ | 1 | 3 | _ | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malignant growths | 98 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 5 | 50 | 40 | - | 5 | 9 | 7 | 32 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | - | ||
| Congenital debility, malformation, and premature birth | 17 | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Old age | 32 | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | 32 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 11 | _ | 4 | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Meningitis and convulsions | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |