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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 1858
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, The United Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster]
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COMPARATIVE TABLE OF
1857. 1858.
Measles 1 12
Scarlet Fever 0 3
Hooping Cough 8 11
Bronchitis and Pneumonia 19 44
Phthisis 16 22
Deaths above GO Years of Age 18 26
62 118
62
Excess over 1857 50
The following Table shows the Births and Deaths in each
Parish arranged as to Sex:-
REGISTERED BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
| ST. MARGARET. | ST. JOHN. | Totals of Births in both Parishes. | Totals of Deaths in both Parishes. | Deaths in 1857. | Deaths last Month. | Corrected Deaths in 10 years average. | Deaths more than April 1857. | Deaths more than 10 years average. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births. | Deaths. | Births. | Deaths. | |||||||||||||||
| M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total. | M | F. | Total. | |||||||
| 27 | 31 | 58 | 54 | 37 | 91 | 51 | 64 | 115 | 38 | 28 | 66 | 173 | 157 | 104 | 172 | 152-5 | 35 | 5-5 |
These numbers will be somewhat altered if 8 are deducted
as belonging to other parishes, and 1 found drowned—thus
reducing the actual numbers to 148, or 44 more than the
previous year, and 4-5 less than the average of the previous
10 years.
The following Deaths occurred in the undermentioned
places:—
Workhouses. Hospitals. Prisons. Barracks.
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22 Westminster 9 House of Correction 6 HydePark 3
Grenadier Gds. 3
Coldstreams 1
Scotch Fusileers 1
As the main concentration of Hooping Cough and Measles
continues in the neighbourhood of the Vauxhall Road, I have
inspected a further number of houses in that locality, and have
to report that during the month 44 houses have been examined