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Marylebone 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: TABLE VI.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during the 52 Weeks ending December 22nd, 1900, at the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, the Workhouse, and the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill. W.

TABLE VI.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during the 52 Weeks ending December 22nd, 1900, at the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, the Workhouse, and the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill. W.

Middlesex Hospital.Queen Charlotte's Hospital.Samaritan Hospital.Workhouse.Notting Hill Infirmary.
Influenza..........
Scarlet Fever..........
Diphtheria3......1
Typhoid Fever5......3
Diarrhœa41..310
Erysipelas1......3
Pneumonia and Pleurisy2621520
Pyaemia1..2..3
Syphilis1......4
Cancer137..1..44
Phthisis and Tuberculosis401....131
Rheumatism2......6
Apoplexy93..312
Paralysis2......16
Bronchitis15....996
Asthma......2..
Peritonitis812..2
Disease of Brain2....51
,, Heart302..434
Kidney17......5
,. Liver7......8
,, Uterus2..7....
„ Ovary224....
Parturition..1......
Diabetes..........
Fractures and Injuries20....217
Old Age......234
Low Vitality, Infants..2..5..
Premature Birth113..3..
Other causes74113974
Total*309†39‡2052524

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* Of the 309 deaths in the Middlesex Hospital, 226 were those of non-parishioners.
†37 of the 39 deaths in Queen Charlotte's Hospital were those of non-parishioners.
‡ 17 of the 20 deaths in the Samaritan Hospital were non-parishioners.