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 London, City of ]
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No. V.—Classification of Deaths according to Causes, during the Year ending September 1862, and a comparison with the Averages of the last Seven Years.
City Districts and Population in 1862. | Summer Quarter. | Violence, Privation, Premature Birth, and Poison. | Tubercular Diseases. | Convulsions and Teething. | Zymotic Diseases. | Pneumonia, Bronchitis, and Asthma. | Others, chiefly chronic. | Total | |||||||||
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Phthisis. | Tabes and Scrofula. | Hydrocephalus. | Alvine Flux. | Continued Fever. | Scarlet-Fever. | Small-Fox. | Measles. | Whoop-ing Cough Diphtheria. | Erysipelas. | ||||||||
Adults. | Children. | ||||||||||||||||
EastLondonUnion (Population 41,282) | 1862. | 61 | 151 | 79 | 20 | 61 | 8 | 27 | 58 | 49 | 2 | 45 | 99 | 8 | 170 | 244 | 1082 |
Average | 48 | 131 | 74 | 37 | 72 | 16 | 35 | 46 | 46 | 14 | 35 | 64 | 7 | 219 | 304 | 1148 | |
WestLondonUnion (Population 26,739 | 1862. | 51 | 86 | 55 | 10 | 27 | 2 | 11 | 55 | 10 | 0 | 18 | 27 | 2 | 134 | 198 | 686 |
Average | 42 | 105 | 55 | 25 | 36 | 9 | 18 | 32 | 25 | 8 | 22 | 37 | 6 | 133 | 211 | 764 | |
City of London") Union (Population 46,451) | 1862. | 55 | 120 | 39 | 13 | 51 | 5 | 10 | 61 | 36 | 2 | 29 | 72 | 4 | 137 | 324 | 958 |
Average | 65 | 141 | 42 | 26 | 60 | 12 | 19 | 28 | 33 | 9 | 21 | 54 | 5 | 168 | 352 | 1035 | |
Entire City (Population 114,472) | 1862. | 167 | 357 | 173 | 43 | 139 | 15 | 48 | 174 | 95 | 4 | 92 | 198 | 14 | 441 | 766 | 2726 |
Average | 155 | 377 | 171 | 88 | 168 | 37 | 72 | 106 | 104 | 31 | 78 | 155 | 18 | 520 | 867 | 2947 |