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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 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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MALES. Table IV.—Causes of, and Ayes at, Death during the year 1928.
| 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. | 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. | Covent Garden. | Strand. | Homeless. | |
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 4 | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet, fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Influenza | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 6 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping-cough | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria. Memb. croup | 10 | 2 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cerebro-spinal meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric fever | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Diarrhœa, enteritis | 11 | 9 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Entric fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other sentic diseases | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Syphilis, & c. | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Diabetes | 11 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 5 | 4 | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Rheumatic fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis of lungs | 61 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 26 | 24 | 4 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 19 | - | 17 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| Other forms of tuberculosis | 7 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malignant growths | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 54 | 43 | - | 8 | 2 | 10 | 27 | 4 | 23 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | - | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| Congenital debility, malformation, and premature birth | 17 | 16 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 5 | - | 6 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | - |
| Old age | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Meningitis and convulsions | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |