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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 1898

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

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Table: TABLE III.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during the 5 Weeks ending January 28th, 1899, at the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, the Workhouse, and the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill, W.

TABLE III.—Giving the Causes of Deaths during the 5 Weeks ending January 28th, 1899, at the Middlesex Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, Samaritan Hospital, the Workhouse, and the Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill, W.

Middlesex Hospital.Queen Charlotte's Hospital.Samaritan Hospital.Workhouse.Notting Hill Infirmary.
Influenza..........
Scarlet Eever..........
Diphtheria.........1
Typhoid Eever..........
Diarrhoea..........
Erysipelas..........
Pneumonia and Pleurisy........1
Pyaemia..........
Syphilis........1
Cancer14........
Phthisis and Tuberculosis3......12
Rheumatism........1
Apoplexy..........
Paralysis....1
Bronchitis..........
Asthma..........
Peritonitis1........
Disease of Brain..........
,, Heart22
,, Kidney3.......4
,, Liver........1
„ Uterus..........
„ Ovary..........
Parturition..........
Diabetes..........
Fractures and Injuries2........
Old Age........1
Low Vitality, Infants..........
Premature Birth..........
Other causes21115
Total*29†1‡3837

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* Of the 29 deaths in the Middlesex Hospital, 23 were those of non-parishioners,
† The death in Queen Charlotte's Hospital was that of an infant of a non-parishioner.
‡ The 3 deaths in the Samaritan Hospital were those of non-parishioners.