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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 XVa.
Table of DEATHS during the Year 1898. in the STRAND Sub-District, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
| Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Birth* arc in Form B.) | 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 ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 ami under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and imder 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. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Rheumatic Fever. | Ague. | Phthisis. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy. | Heart Disease | Injuries. | | All other Diseases. | total. | |||||||||||||
| Typhus. | Enteric of \Typhoid. | Continued | Relapsing. | Puerperl. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | (h) | (i) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strand Sub-District | 147 | 31 | 20 | 1 | 5 | 66 | 24 | Under 5 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 51 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 1 | 20 | 21 | 24 | 3 | 26 | 96 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strand Union Casual Wards, Bear Yard | 13 | 2 | 6 | 5 | Under 5 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 9 | 2 | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| King's College Hospital | 201 | 21 | 20 | 12 | 24 | 110 | 14 | Under 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 41 | |||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 16 | 9 | 95 | 160 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| St. Peter's Hospital | 10 | 1 | 11 | 7 | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 2 | 17 | 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| River Thames | 3 | 3 | Under 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 383 | 54 | 40 | 13 | 30 | 196 | 50 | Under 5 | 1 | ] | 8 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 48 | 94 | |||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 34 | 47 | 42 | 15 | 138 | 289 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | 140 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 70 | 54 | Under 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 27 | 34 | 10 | 2 | 55 | 128 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging thereto | 205 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 24 | 119 | 27 | Under 5 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 25 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 upwds | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 19 | 21 | 15 | 102 | 180 | ||||||||||||||||||||