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 St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE II.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during the month of April, 1905, 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 Hospital | Queen Charlotte's Hospital. | Samaritan Hospital. | Workhouse | Notting Hill Infirmary. | Hospital of St. John & Elizabeth Grove Rd | |
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Smallpox | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Influenza | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | |
Scarlet Fever | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Diphtheria | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Typhoid Fever | 2 | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Diarrhœa | 1 | . . | . . | . . | 1 | . . |
Erysipelas | 1 | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Pneumonia and Pleurisy | 3 | . . | . . | . . | 2 | . . |
Pyæmia | . . | . . | . . | . . | .. | . . |
Syphilis | . . | . . | . . | . . | .. | . . |
Cancer | 6 | . . | . . | . . | 3 | . . |
Phthisis & Tuberculosis | 6 | . . | . . | . . | 5 | 1 |
Rheumatism | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Apoplexy | . . | . . | . . | . . | 3 | . . |
Paralysis | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Bronchitis | . . | . . | . . | . . | 7 | . . |
Asthma | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Peritonitis | . . | . . | . . | . . | .. | . . |
Disease of Brain | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
,, Heart | 3 | . . | . . | . . | 2 | . . |
„ Kidney | . . | . . | . . | . . | 1 | . . |
„ Liver | 1 | . . | . . | . . | 1 | . . |
„ Uterus | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
„ Ovary | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Parturition | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Diabetes | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Fractures and Injuries | . . | . . | . . | . . | 1 | . . |
Old Age | . . | . . | . . | . . | 5 | . . |
Low Vitality, Infants | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . | . . |
Premature Birth | . . | 4 | . . | . . | .. | . . |
Other causes | 10 | . . | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
Total | *33 | †4 | **1 | 2 | 36 | ***2 |
* Of the 33 deaths in the Middlesex Hospital, 31 were those of non-parishioners,
f Of the 4 deaths in Queen Charlotte's Hospital 3 were those of non-parishioners.
** The death in the Samaritan Hospital was that of a non-parishioner.
***The 2 deaths in St. John's Hospital were those of non-parishioners.