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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 1906

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

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Table: TABLE IV.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during 1906, 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 IV.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during 1906, 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.

Middle- sex Hospital.Queen Charlotte's Hospital.Samaritan Hospital.Workhouse.Notting Hill Infirm'ry.Hospital of St. John & Elizabeth, Grove Road.
Smallpox............
Influenza. ...........
Scarlet Fever............
Diphtheria3........1
Typhoid Fever............
Diarrhœa5....13..
Erysipelas1......72
Pneumonia and Pleurisy14....l152
Pyæmia........5..
Syphilis........4..
Cancer114..3..342
Phthisis & Tuberculosis32..1l1048
Rheumatism........1..
Apoplexy........28..
Paralysis........14..
Bronchitis12....1082..
Asthma............
Peritonitis............
Disease of Brain............
„ Heart......6301
,, Kidney........5..
,, Liver6....110..
,, Uterus............
„ Ovary............
Parturition............
Diabetes............
Fractures and Injuries24......131
Old Age........11..
Low Vitality, Infants............
Premature Birth..17....1..
Other causes1271816141014
Total*363+41**2034468***121

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* Of the 363 deaths in the Middlesex Hospital, 262 were those of non-parishioners.
† Of the 41 deaths in Queen Charlotte's Hospital, 29 were those of non-parishioners.
** Of the 20 deaths in the Samaritan Hospital, 19 were those of non-parishioners
* ** Of 21 deaths in the Hospital of St. John's, 19 were those of non-parishioners.