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Marylebone 1904

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

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Table: TABLE I.SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE MORTALITY DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING OCT. 29 TH , 1904, FROM CERTAIN CLASSES OF DISEASE AND PROPORTION TO 1,000 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES:—

TABLE I.

SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE MORTALITY DURING THE FIVE WEEKS ENDING OCT. 29 TH , 1904, FROM CERTAIN CLASSES OF DISEASE AND PROPORTION TO 1,000 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES:—

Total Deaths. 5 weeks ending Oct. 29th, 1904.Proportion ofthedeaths to 1,000 deaths from all causes. 5 weeks ending Oct. 29, 1904.Rate per 1,000 of the population.Mean rate per 1,000 population for corresponding period 1897-1903.
1. Deaths from the chief Zymotic Diseases9600.702.06
2. Pulmonary, other than Phthisi.-221471.722.72
3. Tubercular201341.562.11

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NOTES.
1. Includes Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Influenza, Whooping Cough,
Erysipelas, Croup, Fever, and Diarrhœa.
3. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets, and Tabes.
The Public Health of the District during October.
The climatic conditions of the month appear to have
been favourable to health. The death and zymotic rates
were singularly below the average, and the absence of anything
approaching to an epidemic has again to be recorded.