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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
City of London 1863
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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No. VI—Average Annual Proportion of Deaths, Classified according to Causes, in each of the Quarters
| Quarters. | Violence, Privation, Premature Birth, and Poison. | Tubercular Diseases. | Convulsions and Teething. | Zymotic Diseases. | Pneumonia, Bronchitis, and Asthma. | O hers, chi,fly c ic. | Total. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phthisis. | Tabes and Scrofula. | Hydrocephalus. | Alvine Flux. | Con. tinued Fever. | Scarlet-Fever. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Whooping Cough Croup, & Diphtheria. | Erysipelas. | |||||||
| Adults. | Children. | |||||||||||||||
| Spring Quarter ending in June | 38 | 93 | 42 | 25 | 42 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 22 | 10 | 21 | 44 | 3 | 116 | 203 | 694 |
| Summer Quarter ending in Sept. | 41 | 80 | 50 | 18 | 34 | 12 | 60 | 28 | 27 | 7 | 20 | 31 | 5 | 58 | 185 | 646 |
| Autumn Quarter ending in Dec. | 39 | 89 | 41 | 15 | 40 | 12 | 9 | 32 | 43 | 6 | 24 | 35 | 4 | 139 | 212 | 740 |
| Winter Quarter ending in March | 41 | 97 | 36 | 20 | 47 | 5 | 3 | 28 | 21 | 7 | 21 | 46 | 5 | 194 | 259 | 830 |
| 159 | 359 | 169 | 78 | 163 | 33 | 67 | 114 | 113 | 30 | 86 | 156 | 17 | 507 | 859 | 2910 | |