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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 III.—Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the five weeks ending February 4th, 1905, in the Borough of St. Marylebone.
| CAUSES OF DEATH. | Deaths in whole District at subjoined Ages. | Deaths in Localities (at all Ages.) | Deaths in Public Institutions. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Ages. | Under 1. | 1 and under 5. | 6 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | All Souis. | Rectory. | St. Mary. | Christ Church. | St. John. | |||
| Smallpox | ||||||||||||||
| Measles | ||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | ||||||||||||||
| Croup | ||||||||||||||
| Fever | Typhus | |||||||||||||
| Enteric | ||||||||||||||
| Other continued | ||||||||||||||
| Epidemic Influenza .. | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Cholera | ||||||||||||||
| Plague | ||||||||||||||
| Diarrhœa | ||||||||||||||
| Enteritis | ||||||||||||||
| Puerperal fever | ||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | ||||||||||||||
| Other Septic Diseases | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Phthisis | 25 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 3 | |||
| Other Tubercular | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Diseases Cancer, Malignant | 13 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | |||||
| Disease Bronchitis | 34 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 17 | |||
| Pneumonia | 18 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Pleurisy | ||||||||||||||
| Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Alcoholism Cirrhosis of Liver | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ..... | 1 | |||||
| Venereal Diseases | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Premature Birth | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Diseases and Accidents of Parturition | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Heart Diseases | 24 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |||||
| Accidents | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| Suicides | ||||||||||||||
| All other causes | 58 | 10 | 2 | 24 | 22 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 24 | |||
| All causes | 203 | 34 | 12 | 3 | 90 | 64 | 48 | 31 | 29 | 59 | 36 | 90 | ||
24 of these were Non-Parishioners.