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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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FEMALES. Table VII {continued).-Causes of, and. Ages at, Death during the year 1938,
| Causes or 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 | -__- | -_ | - | - | - | -. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Influenza | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping-cough | -_ | - | - | - | -_ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria, Memb. croup | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cerebro spinal meningitis | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diarrhœa, enteritis | 6 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal fever | - | - | - | - | -_ | -_ | - | -_ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other septic diseases | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Syphilis, &c. | - | -_ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diabetes | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rheumatic fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1- | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Tuberculosis of lungs | 19 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 8 | 1 | 4 | - | - | - | 2 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other forms of tuberculosis | 5 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Malignant growths | 110 | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 49 | 54 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 38 | 6 | 27 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Congenital debility, mal | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| formation, and premature birth | 13 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Old age | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Meningitis and convulsion | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |