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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 1907

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

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Table: TABLE IX. DEATHS FROM PHTHISIS.

TABLE IX. DEATHS FROM PHTHISIS.

Population.Year.All Ages.Sub-Districts.
All Souls.St. Mary.Christ Church.S. John.
126,867190815435336125
127,718190717942466427
127,960190619736647324
129,453190519537566933
131,000190421443578232
131,700190324171567836
132,650190222559597136
133,301190122371605636
135,350190027580646863

Table: DEATHS FROM PHTHISIS AND OTHER TUBERCULAR DISEASES.

DEATHS FROM PHTHISIS AND OTHER TUBERCULAR DISEASES.

Year.No. of Cases.Population.Rate per 1ooo of Population.
1908203126,8671.70
1907229127,7181.79
1906244127,9601.90
1905248129,4631.92

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172 cases of Phthisis were notified during 1908.
291 Do. do. do. 1907.
DEATH CERTIFICATION.
It is really a matter of serious moment that the certification
of causes of death is in such an unsatisfactory condition.
Certification by medical men is, on the whole, quite satisfactory,
and if the Medical Officer of Health were given a proper locus
standi so that he would be enabled, not merely as a matter of
courtesy, but as a matter of right, to inquire into cases where vague
nomenclature had been employed, and where primary causes
were ineffectually distinguished from secondary causes, probably
nothing more would be requisite. To this end little more
is required but the transference of the supervision of Registrars of
Births and Deaths to the local Sanitary Authority, with power to
make regulations for the guidance of these officers.