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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 (continued).
| 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. | |
| Loc. ataxia and general paralysis | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other diseases of nervous | 8 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Valvular diseases of heart | 18 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 9 | - | 4 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 7 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 |
| Other circulatory diseases | 165 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 6 | 61 | 92 | 1 | 13 | b | 11 | 40 | 8 | 37 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 6 | |
| Bronchitis | 83 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Broncho-pneumonia | 21 | 6 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | 6 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 7 | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia, otlier forms | 39 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 8 | 17 | 11 | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | 13 | - | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Other respiratory diseases | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alcoholism | - | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cirrhosis of liver | 6 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Appendicitis and typhlitis | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other digestive diseases | 30 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 10 | 1 | 7 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 |
| Bright's disease, & c | 45 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 23 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cystitis, diseases & c | 29 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 24 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Deaths by accident or negligence | 35 | - | 1 | - | 6 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 10 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 2 |
| Deaths by suicide and murder | 16 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | - | 2 | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - a | 1 | 1 |
| Other defined diseases | 12 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diseases, ill defined or unknown | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| All causes | 787 | 47 | 11 | 6 | 18 | 24 | 87 | 278 | 316 1 | 4 | 69 | 16 | 54 | 231 | 29 | 173 | 26 | 20 | 31 | 25 | 12 | 35 | 46 | 26 |