Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]
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AGES AND CAUSES OF DEATH DURING APRIL, MAY & JUNE.
Diseases. | Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 10. | 10 to 20. | 20 to 30. | 30 to 40. | 40 to 50. | 50 to 60. | 60 to 70. | 70 & upwards. | Total. | Total of both |
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small Pox.................... | .. | .. | .. | |||||||||
Chicken Pox.................. | • • | |||||||||||
measles | i | 1 | ||||||||||
Scarlet Fever ................ | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||
Hooping Cough .............. | 5 | 4 | 13 | 2 | ||||||||
Diarrhoea.................... | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
Dysentery.................... | • • | • • | .. | • • | • • | • • | ||||||
Cholera...................... | • • | • • | • • | • • | ||||||||
Fever | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | i | |||||||
Bronchitis and Pneumonia...... | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 27 | |||
Pleurisy...................... | • • | • • | • • | • • | • • | •• | 1 | 1 | ||||
Group ...................... | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Phthisis...................... | 1 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 6' | ||||
Hydrocephalus and Convulsions.. | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 2 | ||||||
Apoplexy and Epilepsy ........ | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | |||||||
Marasmus and Atrophy........ | 8 | 1 | 9 | 1! | ||||||||
Violence, Privation & Preme-Birth | 5 | 1 | 6 | 13 | ||||||||
Rheumatic Fever.............. | ||||||||||||
Pyoemia...................... | .. | • • | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Other Diseases—chiefly Chronic | 7 | 3 | 1 | •• | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 38 | 97 | |
Total............ | 43 | 26 | 5 | 10 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 19 | 163 | 337 |