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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 1929
[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 1929.
| 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 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. | |
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Measles | 4 | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Scarlct fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Influenza | 48 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 6 | 1 6 | 24 | – | 5 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 14 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | – |
| Whooping-cough | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 5 | – | 5 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – |
| Diphtheria, Memb. croup | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cerebro-spinal meningitis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Poliomyelitis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Enteric fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Diarrhœa, enteritis | 5 | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| Erysipelas | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Puerperal fever | 3 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Other septic diseases | 11 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| Syphilis, &c | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Diabetes | 9 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | 3 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Rheumatic fever | 9 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 6 | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – |
| Tuberculosis of lungs | 30 | – | – | – | – | 9 | 8 | 10 | 3 | – | 1 | – | 2 | 11 | 1 | 10 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Other forms of tuberculosis | 7 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Malignant growths | 109 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 6 | 55 | 47 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 10 | 36 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Congenital debility, malformation, and premature birth | 16 | 16 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 6 | – | 2 | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 2 |
| Old age | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 | – | 2 | – | 2 | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Meningitis and convulsions | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |