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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 1905

[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 FOUR WEEKS ENDING NOV. 25th, 1905, FROM CERTAIN CLASSES OF DISEASE AND PROPORTION TO 1,000 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES: -

TABLE I.

SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE MORTALITY DURING THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING NOV. 25th, 1905, FROM CERTAIN CLASSES OF DISEASE AND PROPORTION TO 1,000 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES: -

Total Deaths. 4 weeks ending Nov. 25th, 1905.Proportion of the deaths to 1,000 deaths from all causes. 4 weeks ending Nov. 25, 1905.Rate per 1,000 of the population.Mean rate per 1,000 population for corresponding period 1900-1904.
1. Deaths from the chief Zymotic Diseases7400.681.13
2. Pulmonary, other than Phthisis432504.204.02
3. Tubercular17991.662.37

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NOTES.
1. Includes Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Influenza, Whooping Cough
Erysipelas, Croup, Fever, and Diarrhoea.
3. Includes Phthisis, Scrofula, Rickets, and Tabes.
Health of the District during November.
The health of the district has been exceptionally good
during the four weeks of .November. The mortality from
pulmonary, tubercular and zymotic maladies has been
lower than the average of the last live years The general
death rate almost exactly the mean of the same period.