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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

Marylebone 1904

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

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Table: TABLE III.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during April, 1904, at the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, the Workhouse, the Hospital of St. John and Elizabeth, and the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill, W.

TABLE III.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during April, 1904, at the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, the Workhouse, the Hospital of St. John and Elizabeth, and the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill, W.

Middlesex HospitalQueen Charlotte's Hospital.Samaritan Hospital.WorkhouseNotting Hill Infirmary.Hospital of St. John & Elizabeth Grove Rd.
Smallpox............
Influenza............
Scarlet Fever............
Diphtheria............
Typhoid Fever............
Diarrhœa............
Erysipelas............
Pneumonia and Pleurisy4..........
Pyæmia........1..
Syphilis............
Cancer11......1..
Phthisis & Tuberculosis2......82
Rheumatism............
Apoplexy........1..
Paralysis........2..
Bronchitisl......8..
Asthma............
Peritonitis............
Disease of Brain............
,, Heart......11..
„ Kidney............
„ Liver1..........
„ Uterus............
„ Ovary............
Parturition............
Diabetes............
Fractures and Injuries.l..........
Old Age........5..
Low Vitality, Infants............
Premature Birth............
Other causes16..1281
Total*39..**1435†3

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* Of the 39 deaths in the Middlesex Hospital, 27 were those of non-parishioners.
** The death in the Samaritan Hospital was that of a non-parishioner.
†Of the three deaths in the Hospital of St. John two were non-parishioners.