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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
Westminster 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]
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ANNUAL RETURN OF DEATHS, SIGNIFYING THE DISEASES ACCORDING TO AGE. ST. MARGARET'S, 1856.
| Deaths. | Ages. | Numbers. | Measles. | Small Pox. | Scarlet Fever. | Hooping Cough. | Diarrhoea. | Fever. | Bronchitis and Pneumonia. | Phthisis. | Hydrocephalus and Convulsions. | Heart disease. | Apoplexy and Epilepsy. | Violence, Privation, Poison, and Premature Birth. | Croup. | Marasmus and Atrophy. | Other Diseases—chiefly Chronic. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | |||||||||||||||||
| 459 | 420 | 879 | Under 1 Year | 165 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 22 | . . | 36 | 1 | 33 | . . | . . | 26 | 1 | 24 | 8 |
| 1 to 5 | 152 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 32 | 4 | 22 | 2 | . . | 9 | 6 | 15 | 12 | |||
| 5 to 10 | 24 | 5 | . . | 3 | 1 | 1 | . . | 2 | 2 | 1 | . . | 3 | . . | 1 | . . | 5 | |||
| 10 to 20 | 27 | . . | 1 | . . | . . | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | . . | 2 | 1 | . . | . . | 1 | 3 | |||
| 20 to 30 | 65 | . . | 2 | 1 | . . | . . | 6 | 6 | 30 | . . | 1 | 1 | 2 | . . | 1 | 15 | |||
| 30 to 40 | 93 | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | 10 | 7 | 35 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | . . | . . | 30 | |||
| 40 to 50 | 84 | . . | . . | . . | . . | 3 | 6 | 13 | 20 | . . | 6 | 6 | 3 | . . | . . | 27 | |||
| 50 to 60 | 84 | . . | . . | . . | . . | 3 | 8 | 22 | 6 | . . | 7 | 4 | 3 | . . | 1 | 30 | |||
| 60 to 70 | 92 | . . | . . | . . | . . | l&'l | 10 | 17 | 7 | . . | 6 | 13 | 2 | . . | . . | 35 | |||
| 70 & upwards | 93 | . . | . . | . . | . . | 3 | 4 | 16 | . . | . . | 3 | 5 | 1 | . . | . . | 61 | |||
| Total. | 879 | 25 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 42 | 59 | 154 | 115 | 57 | 32 | 36 | 48 | 8 | 42 | 226 | |||