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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
Strand (Westminster) 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Strand District, London]
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Local Government Board. Form A. TABLE XV.
SUMMARY OF TABLES showing DEATHS during the Year 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of STRAND, classified acccording to Diseases,
Ages, and Localities.
| Names or Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities. | Mortality from all causes, at subjoined Ages. | Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| At all 1 ages. | Under 1 | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | ||
| Smallpox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Membranous Croup. | Fevers. | Cholera. | Erysipelas. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhœa and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease. | Injuries. | All other Diseases. | TOTAL. | |||||||||||||
| (Columns for Population and Births arc in Form B.) | Typhus. | Enteric or Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing | Puerperal. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strand District | 274 | 63 | 34 | 5 | 10 | 125 | 37 | Under 5 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 20 | 2 | 42 | 97 | |||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 1 | 41 | 38 | 41 | 7 | 48 | 177 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| In Hospitals, &c., in District | 265 | 23 | 20 | 12 | 26 | 156 | 28 | Under & | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 43 | |||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 26 | 26 | 12 | 129 | 212 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 539 | 86 | 54 | 17 | 36 | 281 | 65 | Under 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 69 | 140 | |||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 55 | 64 | 67 | 19 | 177 | 399 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto | 220 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 110 | 75 | Under | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 25 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 2 | 1 | 36 | 36 | 22 | 7 | 91 | 195 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 236 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 24 | 147 | 30 | Under 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 25 | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 19 | 29 | 16 | 120 | 211 | ||||||||||||||||||||